Cloud FinOps and Cost Optimization Community Activity

Welcome to the Cloud FinOps and Cost Optimization Community! Dedicated to all things Cloud FinOps and Cost Optimization, this is where you can ask questions, find answers, and engage with a global network of Googlers, peers, and product experts in FinOps discussions. We’re so glad you’re here, as we’re all working together to make this an innovative, trusted, and vibrant hub to share knowledge, build skills, and help meet our cloud financial management goals.  Why did we create this Community?  The Cloud FinOps and Cost Optimization Community is a significant investment across multiple teams, including Product Management, Customer Success, Developer Relations, Support, and more. Everyone is pitching in - including all the customers who helped who helped push us and are fierce advocates for the community in all its forms. I want to personally thank you all and invite you to continue sharing your feedback so we can always be improving.  In building this Community, we seek to answer questions such as:  How can we help you get your Cloud FinOps and Cost Optimization questions answered?  How can we help you make connections with each other and Googlers?  How can we improve adoption and effectiveness of Cloud FinOps practices? We’ll be doing this in a few different ways: Discussion forum (where you are now!): Ask questions, join conversations, and share “likes.” Community events: Participate in webinars and “Ask Me Anything” Q&A sessions with the experts (like this one!) Community blogs: Explore and engage with tips, tricks, and tutorials authored by Googlers and other FinOps practitioners (like this one!) Ultimately, we want this to be a place that will help you reach your goals - while having some fun along the way!  3 simple steps to take full advantage of the Community If you haven’t already, create a Community account by following these instructions Join the conversation with your first post or comment in the discussion forum. You can start with your familiarity with FinOps and what you’re hoping to get out of this Community Stay up-to-date by subscribing to this forum - learn how to customize your subscriptions and notifications here Final thoughts  As you engage with this Community, we want to encourage you to please follow the Community Guidelines and treat these forums with the same respect as you would your carefully curated cloud programs. This is your Community - help us to keep it safe, friendly, fun, and helpful!  And lastly, as a Google Cloud team, we want you to know that we’ll make every effort to listen to you - our valuable members - and seek opportunities to add more value where we can. Thank you for joining us and we look forward to engaging with you in the Community!  ... View more

Hi all, We recently announced the public preview launch of our Cloud Monitoring metrics export to BigQuery. One of the key uses cases @JoyWang recently highlighted is the ability to get granular cost insights for GKE using this preview.  We'd love to get more folks from this group engaged with the product to help us improve the experience! There is no cost for using the export during public preview, and we hope with your help to improve this offering.  If you'd like you can read more about the use case in Joy's recent blog post or sign up for the public preview here. Thanks for your help! ... View more

Hi, I want to start data collection with server side tagging solution.  I am new to GCP cloud a tech. which is Cost optimal solution ? ... View more

In this article written by Senior Solutions Consultant, Rishi Ghai (@rishighai22) you'll learn how to use Google Cloud's recommender service, which provides recommendations and insights based on machine learning and current resource usage, to help you manage, optimize, and reduce your cloud costs. Read the article 👉 Cloud FinOps: How to explore potential cloud cost savings using recommendations ... View more

This year, Google Cloud introduced a new tool within the GCP Console called "FinOps Hub" which summarizes your current cost optimizations, displays Google Cloud recommended cost optimizations and generates a FinOps Score based on historical data to help you analyze how efficiently you are utilizing the cost saving options within GCP. Pre-requisites to access the FinOps Hub: You need the Billing Account Administrator or the Billing Account Viewer role to access the FinOps hub and view available recommendations, the FinOps Score and CUDs optimization metrics, and the metrics that inform cost optimization across projects associated with your billing account. To view the FinOps hub: In the Google Cloud console, go to your Cloud Billing account. At the prompt, choose the Cloud Billing account for which you want to view the FinOps hub. In the Cost optimization section of the billing navigation menu, select FinOps hub About the FinOps Score: The FinOps Score can help you gauge how well you're using Google Cloud tools to monitor and save costs as well as how you can continue to optimize costs. The score is a calculation based on how you follow optimization best practices, including the following: Monitoring spend by actively logging in and using Cloud Billing tools. Optimizing resources by turning off idle resources and right-sizing instances. Purchasing CUDs, including CUDs opportunities recommended by Google Cloud. Establishing automated practices such as enabling BigQuery Export and API adoption.   To know more please refer: https://cloud.google.com/billing/docs/how-to/finops-hub You can also watch a quick video on this here Kind Regards, SanketK     ... View more