GCP FinOps Archives - FinOps Consultant https://finopsconsultant.com/category/gcp-finops/ Cloud and Data Center Financial Operations Optimization Wed, 17 May 2023 17:27:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 Forecasting cloud spend using billing exports in Bigquery https://finopsconsultant.com/gcp-finops/forecasting-cloud-spend-using-billing-exports-in-bigquery/ https://finopsconsultant.com/gcp-finops/forecasting-cloud-spend-using-billing-exports-in-bigquery/#respond Wed, 17 May 2023 17:27:59 +0000 https://finopsconsultant.com/?p=91 The cloud billing export that goes to bigquery does not contain any forecast spend data. This data is present in cloud billing – but not available for export. This leaves…

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The cloud billing export that goes to bigquery does not contain any forecast spend data. This data is present in cloud billing – but not available for export.

This leaves us with two options to retrieve this billing forecast data:

  1. Make API calls to the billing API to retrieve the forecast data
  2. Use linear regression outside of cloud billing to calculate billing forecast.

Here is a link to a sample looker query analyzing the spend trend (forecast) for a billing dataset.

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