Your company has reserved a monthly budget for your project. You want to be informed automatically of your project spend so that you can take action when you approach the limit. What should you do?

The correct answer is B. Create a budget alert for desired percentages such as 50%, 90%, and 100% of your total monthly. A is not correct because this will just give you the spend but will not alert you when you approach B Is correct because a budget alert will warn you when you reach the limits set. C Is not correct because those budgets are only on App Engine, not other GCP resources…

Submitted by ahmad_uae· Mar 30, 2026Optimizing technical and business processes

Question

Your company has reserved a monthly budget for your project. You want to be informed automatically of your project spend so that you can take action when you approach the limit. What should you do?

Options

ALink a credit card with a monthly limit equal to your budget.
BCreate a budget alert for desired percentages such as 50%, 90%, and 100% of your total monthly
CIn App Engine Settings, set a daily budget at the rate of 1/30 of your monthly budget.
DIn the GCP Console, configure billing export to BigQuery. Create a saved view that queries your

How the community answered

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A
2% (1)
B
90% (37)
C
2% (1)
D
5% (2)

Explanation

A is not correct because this will just give you the spend but will not alert you when you approach B Is correct because a budget alert will warn you when you reach the limits set. C Is not correct because those budgets are only on App Engine, not other GCP resources. Furthermore, this makes subsequent requests fail, rather than alert you in time so you can mitigate appropriately. D is not correct because if you exceed the budget, you will still be billed for it. Furthermore, there is no alerting when you hit that limit by GCP.

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#budget alerts#billing#cost management

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