Google Cloud Billing Health Checks

Biswanath Giri
2 min readNov 7, 2023

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Set up budget alerts

Set up budgets with multiple alert thresholds to reduce spending surprises and unexpected cost overruns.

You haven’t set up budget alerts for this billing account.

CREATE BUDGET

Grant access to view billing reports

Grant access to view billing reports to people in finance and other departments and roles where users need to track spend or need to review cost anomalies.

You have 0 billing account viewers. Set up roles in account management.

ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT

Assign multiple billing account administrators

Assign multiple billing account administrators to each billing account — you might also consider using organization-level permissions.

You have 1 account administrator for this billing account. We recommend assigning multiple administrators to reduce the risk of losing control of the account.

MANAGE PERMISSIONS

Turn off Billing Account Creator role for domain

We recommend removing the Billing Account Creator role from the domain to ensure that cloud billing accounts are only created by users that should handle payment information, settings, and cost attribution for the organization.

The Billing Account Creator role is turned on for the domain.

REMOVE ROLE

Link a project or close unused account

Old open billing accounts with no linked projects can cause confusion as billing account users in your organization may accidentally link a project to an account that shouldn’t be used any longer. We recommend closing any billing accounts that are no longer in use.

Link a project to this account if it is still active.

LINK A PROJECT

Close this account if it is no longer in use.

ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT

Check out your account health results to avoid common billing-related issues and adopt our best practice recommendations. Learn more

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Biswanath Giri
Biswanath Giri

Written by Biswanath Giri

Cloud & AI Architect | Empowering People in Cloud Computing, Google Cloud AI/ML, and Google Workspace | Enabling Businesses on Their Cloud Journey

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