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This document provides information about the source of cost and optimization data in the Cost Explorer, how the data is categorized, and limitations on data availability.
Cost data
- Source: Cost data is based on the same information that powers your Cloud Billing reports and exports.
- Latency: Google Cloud products report usage and cost data to Cloud Billing processes at varying intervals. You might see a delay between your use of Google Cloud services and when the usage and costs are available to the Cost Explorer. Typically, costs are available within a day, but this can sometimes take more than 24 hours.
- Gross costs: The costs shown are generally gross costs, reflecting usage at your contract prices before any credits, such as Committed Use Discounts, sustained use discounts, or promotional credits, are applied.
- Currency: When scoping by an App Hub application, all underlying resources within that application must use the same currency for costs to be aggregated. If resources are linked to billing accounts with different currencies, cost data for that application might be incomplete.
Utilization data
- Source: Utilization metrics are sourced from Cloud Monitoring.
- Availability: Availability depends on the resource type and whether the appropriate agents (like the Ops Agent) are configured to collect detailed metrics.
Product categories
The product names used in the Cost Explorer are designed to be logical and user-friendly. These might group costs differently than the service categories used within Cloud Billing reports. For example, costs that the Cost Explorer attributes to "Compute Engine" might encompass multiple underlying services from a Cloud Billing perspective.
Costs for products that the Cost Explorer doesn't support are reported under the product category Other.Resource-level costs
This section lists supported products with resource-level cost data.
App Hub doesn't support all resources that the Cost Explorer supports, and there are some limitations for reported costs. For details, see Application costs.
(Preview) Data transfer costs are reported separately under Networking costs for some resources as indicated in the table of supported resources.| Product name | Supported resources | Additional information |
|---|---|---|
| AlloyDB for PostgreSQL | Backup Cluster Instance |
|
| App Engine | Service | Data transfer costs are reported separately as networking costs. |
| Bigtable | App Profile Instance |
For instances: Data transfer costs are reported separately as networking costs. |
| Cloud Deploy | Delivery pipeline | |
| Cloud Run | Job Service |
|
| Cloud Run functions | Function |
Data transfer costs are reported separately as networking costs. |
| Compute Engine | Allocation Address Disk Forwarding rule Global address Image Instance Instant snapshot Machine image Managed instance group (MIG) Network attachment Reservation Snapshot Storage pool Target VPN gateway VPN gateway VPN tunnel |
|
| Google Kubernetes Engine | Cluster |
|
| Dataflow | Job Snapshot |
|
| Cloud Data Fusion | Instance | |
| Managed Service for Apache Spark | Batch Cluster Session |
For clusters:
|
| Dataproc Metastore | Service | |
| Firestore | Database |
Data transfer costs are reported separately as networking costs. |
Cloud Interconnect (Preview) |
VLAN attachment |
The resource cost includes the hourly cost of the VLAN attachment. Data transfer costs for the VLAN attachment are reported separately as networking costs. Data transfer costs are not attributed to the resources that use the VLAN attachment. |
| Backup for GKE | Backup plan | |
Cloud Load Balancing (Preview) |
Forwarding rule |
Data transfer and processing costs are not attributed to the resources
that use the forwarding rule or URL map.
Data transfer and data processing costs for a forwarding rule or URL map are reported separately as networking costs. |
| Cloud Logging | Log bucket | |
| Managed Service for Microsoft Active Directory | Domain | |
| Memorystore for Redis | Instance | |
| Secret Manager | Secret | |
| Spanner | Instance Database |
|
| Cloud SQL Admin API | Instance | |
| Cloud Storage | Bucket |
Data transfer costs are reported separately as networking costs. |
Application costs
For an App Hub application, the total cost includes all resources that are fully used by the application.
The following limitations apply to application costs:
- This total application cost doesn't include costs for the following:
- Resources that are shared across applications such as VLAN attachments.
- Short-lived resources such as Managed Service for Apache Spark sessions and batches.
- Application cost only includes costs for resources that are supported by App Hub and supported by the Cost Explorer.
- The cost for an application is only available if all application resources are linked to billing accounts in the same currency.
- You can't filter resources by location.