On Sunday, 5 November 2017 05:11:43 UTC+11, Ani Hatzis wrote: > > Hi Peter, > > $75 per week sounds a lot for a non-used tutorial app, that normally > should stay below the free tier. Maybe there is more than one app running > since you played with the tutorials. One other explanation would be that > you have chosen an expensive instance class (e.g. F4, F4G1), >
I didnt choose an instance class. How do I do this? Isn't that more something you do in the compute engine? Not the app engine? I have recently tried to specify resources, e.g. only 1 instance, minimal ram, etc. but I dont did this after I found out my costs were unusually high > or that there are too many idle instances running, or forgotten cron-jobs, > etc. Best approach is to study all the expenses for the billing account > where the costs were charged and identify the big hitters. > How do I find idle instances? I found some older instances of apps were running so I deleted them. I think that is what you are referring to. IS this normal? > > In order to see your detailed expenses in Google Cloud Platform: > > 1. Go to Google Cloud Console > Billing > <https://console.cloud.google.com/billing/> > 2. Click on each billing account (probably you only have one listed > for all your projects) > 3. On the left navigation under Billing, click on *Transactions* > 4. You will see a list of transactions. Make sure that above the > table, you have selected: > 1. Detailed transaction view > 2. All transactions > 3. All time > 5. Each costs item will show you which project has consumed a certain > service or resource, the quantity (in hours, counts etc.), and the cost in > USD > 6. Some lines will show payments (I assume, the free 300$ credit > should appear as the last item at the bottom of the page) > > Yea this is where I found out I was paying 50$ for resources. Although I dont find the descriptions to be very helpful, which is why I came here looking for help. > More information here: View Your Cost and Payment History > <https://cloud.google.com/billing/docs/how-to/view-history>. > > Most tutorials in the documentation of Google Cloud Platform also include > how to delete the training assets after the tutorial is completed, so no > more costs will occur. > > However, if you do not want to delete a Google App Engine app, you have > two options to save costs (at least for not running the app instances): > > - Disable the app until you want to work again with the app. The app > will stop serving requests, until re-enabled. Data and state of the app > will be kept, but may result in costs (e.g. size of datastore). > 1. In Cloud Console for the project that has the GAE app, go to App > Engine > Settings > <https://console.cloud.google.com/appengine/settings> > 2. Click on *Disable application* button > 3. Enter the appp ID and confirm the action > - Apply a daily billing limit for the app. Once the daily spending > limit is reached, the app will stop working, any further requests will be > responded with server errors. > 1. In Cloud Console for the project that has the GAE app, go to App > Engine > Settings > <https://console.cloud.google.com/appengine/settings> > 2. Click on the Edit button above > 3. Enter a USD value (e.g. 1) into the input field *Daily spending* > 4. Click on Save > > Both options relate to GAE costs (typically instance hours, some traffic, > datastore ops), but other costs may incur, let's say, you have created the > app with a Cloud SQL instance, significant Datastore or Storage size. Just > check the Transactions page to see which costs were actually charged. The > documentation provide lots of information on billing, as well as pricing, > quotas, and free tiers for each product. > Yes, I also have a cloud SQL instance. But it is literally just 1 database with 3 tables, each with about 4-5 fields (these are from tutorials). So it's realistically a tiny database. but i still got charged 15$ for using that. What I would like is a breakdown of where my money went, because all I know is that I lost 15$ to CloudSQL but have no idea why. > > Optionally, you can also setup budgets and alerts > <https://cloud.google.com/billing/docs/how-to/budgets>, so you will > receive an email at certain budget milestones (reset each month). I > strongly recommend to setup at least one alert for each billing account, so > you won't be surprised at the end of a billing period in case you forgot to > delete or disable something. > > Ani > > On Saturday, 4 November 2017 17:09:33 UTC+1, Peter Camilleri wrote: >> >> I started playing with GAE a couple weeks ago. I've only played around >> with the tutorials so far. I successfully deployed the bookshelf and visit >> apps. >> >> I checked my billing today and found that I have burnt through about >> 1/5th of my free 300$ credit. This seems pretty extreme. >> >> The billing page doesnt really tell me what I've been billed for. My >> biggest expense is >> >> "Credit >> FreeTrial:2017-10-22T00:00:00.000-07:002af76aae-dd42-421e-XXXX-XXXXXXXXX" >> which is 50$ >> >> Should I be deleting my app engine instance when I'm not using it? >> >> Even so, these prices seem pretty extreme, it looks like App engine will >> cost me around $75 a week to host my project. The GAE calculator gives me a >> significantly smaller estimate. >> >> Where am I losing money? >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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