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Analyzes GCP costs and provides optimization recommendations including committed use discounts, rightsizing, and unused resources. Use when optimizing GCP spending or analyzing GCP costs.
| name | gcp-cost-optimizer |
| description | Analyzes GCP costs and provides optimization recommendations including committed use discounts, rightsizing, and unused resources. Use when optimizing GCP spending or analyzing GCP costs. |
Analyze GCP costs and implement optimization strategies to reduce spending.
# View billing data
gcloud billing accounts list
# Export billing data to BigQuery
gcloud billing accounts projects link PROJECT_ID \
--billing-account=BILLING_ACCOUNT_ID
# Query costs
bq query --use_legacy_sql=false \
'SELECT service.description, SUM(cost) as total_cost
FROM `project.dataset.gcp_billing_export`
WHERE DATE(_PARTITIONTIME) >= DATE_SUB(CURRENT_DATE(), INTERVAL 30 DAY)
GROUP BY service.description
ORDER BY total_cost DESC'
Committed Use Discounts:
Sustained Use Discounts:
Preemptible VMs:
Rightsizing:
# Get rightsizing recommendations
gcloud recommender recommendations list \
--project=PROJECT_ID \
--location=us-central1 \
--recommender=google.compute.instance.MachineTypeRecommender
# Apply recommendation
gcloud recommender recommendations mark-claimed \
RECOMMENDATION_ID \
--project=PROJECT_ID \
--location=us-central1 \
--recommender=google.compute.instance.MachineTypeRecommender
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