Free GCP Cost Analysis

Upload your service account credentials to get actionable cost optimization recommendations.

Prerequisites for Analysis

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GCP APIs Enabled Compute, BigQuery, Asset Inventory, etc.

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Service Account with 6 Viewer Roles Read-only access to all GCP resources

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BigQuery Billing Export Export detailed billing data to BigQuery

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Service Account JSON Key Downloadable credentials file

Choose Your Setup Method:

Open Cloud Shell: console.cloud.google.com →

Run command:

curl -s https://gist.githubusercontent.com/HAndy007/51fdcd5905c5a010a9a064a70632c03c/raw/f9ec0e74026e9771373b44e0ec9ce82a6c137b64/setup.sh > setup.sh && bash setup.sh

This script will: enable 7 GCP APIs, create service account with 6 viewer roles, setup BigQuery billing export, generate JSON credentials

Download generated JSON file and upload it below

Enable required APIs:

gcloud services enable compute.googleapis.com cloudasset.googleapis.com monitoring.googleapis.com sqladmin.googleapis.com storage.googleapis.com bigquery.googleapis.com iam.googleapis.com

Create service account:

gcloud iam service-accounts create fainops-readonly --description="fAInOps readonly service account" --display-name="fAInOps Resource Analyzer"

Assign required roles:

roles/compute.viewer VM, disks, networks

roles/cloudsql.viewer Databases

roles/cloudasset.viewer Full inventory of resources

roles/monitoring.viewer Usage metrics

roles/storage.objectViewer Storage analysis

roles/bigquery.user Access to billing data

for role in roles/compute.viewer roles/cloudsql.viewer roles/cloudasset.viewer roles/monitoring.viewer roles/storage.objectViewer roles/bigquery.user; do gcloud projects add-iam-policy-binding $PROJECT_ID --member="serviceAccount:fainops-readonly@$PROJECT_ID.iam.gserviceaccount.com" --role="$role"; done

Setup BigQuery billing export:

Go to GCP Billing Console
Select your billing account → Export tab
Find "Detailed usage cost" section → Edit Settings
Select project and create/select dataset: fainops_billing_data
Save configuration

Generate JSON key:

gcloud iam service-accounts keys create fainops-credentials.json --iam-account=fainops-readonly@$PROJECT_ID.iam.gserviceaccount.com

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Prerequisites for Analysis

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