Budgets and Alerts
Explore how to create and manage budgets and alerts in Google Cloud billing accounts. Understand how to monitor spending using alerts at set percentages of your budget to prevent unexpected charges and optimize your use of free credits.
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We have $300 in free credits. We want to make sure that we use those and not get billed for extra charges. How can we do this? Well, budgets and alerts are here to help. Setting up our budget of $300 and setting up alerts for 50%, 90% and 100% of actual spending can save us from getting charged extra on our credit cards.
So, let’s do it.
We can set budgets for each billing account.
Please note that credits are provided to the first billing account only. Projects linked to the second and subsequent billing accounts may charge you. So, to avoid this, attach all projects to the first billing account only and remove the existing ones from other billing accounts that don’t have ...