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Google Cloud Platform. How to configure Cost Exports for the whole organization?

Learn how to add billing permissions to your GCP organization.

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How to add billing permissions?

You need to add billing to each of your billing accounts. For each account, follow the appropriate method for adding billing, which is presented below. Repeat the process for each billing account.

Navigate to Billing accounts and click My Project. Here you see mapping from the project to its billing account.

How to add billing permissions for the project?

You can add billing permissions only if you have access to the GCP root account.

Press on the Billing account, then click Billing export

Way 1. Detailed usage cost is enabled on the project of your organization

If the detailed usage cost is Enabled and your project from your organization – setup is done

Way 2. Detailed usage cost is disabled.

Step 1

If the detailed usage cost is Disabled, click on the Edit settings

Step 2

Select the project in your organization to which the billing will be exported. Then click Create new-dataset.

Important:

  • Billing export in GCP is created at the billing account level, not at the organization level.

  • If multiple projects are present within the organization, all billing data will still be included in the export, regardless of the selected project.

  • The billing account used for the export must be connected to the platform, otherwise the data will not be processed correctly.

Step 3

Name the dataset ID and click Create Dataset

Step 4

Click Save. At this stage, the setup is done.

Way 3. Detailed usage cost is enabled, but the project is not from your organization

Step 1

If the detailed usage cost is Enabled on the different projects, click Billing in the Dataset name

Step 2

You will be redirected to the project where the billing export is configured.

Step 3

Open the menu and navigate to IAM

Step 4

Click on Grant access

Step 5

Paste the generated email from Step 13 into New Principals. Add ​Cloud Asset Viewer, BigQuery Data Viewer, BigQuery Job User, and BigQuery Read Session User. Then click Save. Setup is done.

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