Exporting your billing data and creating custom dashboards

Mark Mirchandani presents billing export as a foundation for custom cost analysis: retain detailed records, query allocation dimensions, and build stakeholder views. The 2019 export schema, IAM, BigQuery, Data Studio, and console specifics require confirmation in current documentation.

Key Points Covered

• Mirchandani recommends enabling detailed export early because the historical feature did not reconstruct all earlier detail. [00:00:00]-[00:00:47]
• The walkthrough exports to BigQuery and notes that storing and analyzing cost data can itself cost money. [00:00:47]-[00:01:36]
• A dedicated project or dataset can isolate the cost-management data plane. [00:01:36]
• Location, project, and label dimensions support allocation and trend queries. [00:02:26]
• The episode connects BigQuery to reusable and custom Data Studio dashboards. [00:03:14]-[00:04:06]

Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyMO9XabUUM(opens in a new tab)