Learn more about Cloud Billing and get hands-on with interactive tutorialsavailable in the Google Cloud console.

Take a tour of Cloud Billing (10 minutes)

In this tutorial, you'll walk through the basics of how to understand andmanage your costs using the Google Cloud console.

Launch the billing tour

Understand billing reports (30 minutes)

Learn how to answer cost management questions using intuitive reports availablein the Google Cloud console. In this tutorial, you'll familiarize yourself withsome of the built-in reports and learn how to customize them to answer questionssuch as:

• How much am I spending?
• What are my cost trends?
• What are my cost drivers?
• What is the breakdown of my spend by product?

Launch the billing reports tutorial

Manage payment methods and settings (5 minutes)

A Cloud Billing account is connected to a Google payments profile. TheGoogle payments profile is a Google-level resource that pays for the chargesyou incur in the linked Cloud Billing account.In this tutorial, you'll walk through the basics of Google payments,including the payment methods for your Google Cloud account and how to manageand update your payments profile.

Launch the payment methods tutorial

Create a Google Cloud budget (10 minutes)

Budgets are the first and simplest way to get a handle on your costs. They area tool totrack your actual spend against your planned spend. Budgets sendnotifications to provide visibility into the costs accruing in your projects.In the tutorials, you'll create a basic budget and get an introduction to thedifferent options available to configure your budget.

Choose the tutorial that matches your level of access to Cloud Billingaccounts or projects.

Forbilling account users: Launch the create budgets tutorial

Forproject users: Launch the create budgets tutorial

Automate responses to Cloud Billing budget notifications (30 minutes)

Budgets are a tool you can use to track your actual spend against your plannedspend. Importantly,budgets do not enable or prevent spending but rathersend notifications to provide visibility into the costs accruing in yourprojects. You can configure budgets to send programmatic notificationswhich you can use to program automated cost control responses to your spend.

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to set up a basic cost control response usingprogrammatic budget notifications. After you've completed this tutorial, youcan modify the cost control response based on your needs.

Launch the automate responses tutorial

Analyze billing data with BigQuery (20 minutes)

Cloud Billing export to BigQuery lets you exportdetailed Google Cloud billing data (such as usage, cost estimates, and pricingdata) automatically throughout the day to a BigQuery dataset thatyou specify. In this tutorial, you'll:

• Create a "Billing Administration" project to hold all exported billing data.
• Create a BigQuery dataset to hold all exported billing data from all projects linked to the same Cloud Billing account.
• In Cloud Billing, enable billing data to export to that BigQuery dataset.
• Run some sample queries through the BigQuery web interface to examine billing data.

Launch the billing data export tutorial