I am trying to understand how to lower my Google Cloud SQL bill. I have some databases that are not used frequently and store a modest (100MB) amount of data. I am thinking about stopping the VMs associated with those databases and disconnecting the billing account whenever the application that uses them is not running. Will my data persist even though the vm is off and the billing account is disconnected?
You can stop the instance when you are not using it, and this would stop the billing for it without any worries about the information being deleted. This is mentioned over at this document.
Nevertheless, if you disconnect the billing account from the project for a long period of time, or it remains disabled, the instance may be deleted as mentioned over at this document.
I hope you find this information useful.
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I had mistakenly launched a db.r6g.large PostgreSQL instance and deleted it instantly while under Free Tier. I also deleted all the snapshots as well. Yet, I see daily increase in the bill by a few cents. Anyone knows what to do there?
The db.r6g.large database would not qualify for the Free Tier.
Therefore, the bill is showing a charge for the instance that you launched.
Since you turned off the instance and deleted the snapshots, the charges should not increment any more.
My Cloud SQL Mysql 5.7.37 Highly available instance is stuck in a "Failover operation in progress. This may take a few minutes. While this operation is running, you may continue to view information about the instance" process. It is a fairly small database and it has been stuck like this for 5 hours and the failover is not available so no DB queries can be executed, hence our system is currently down.
No commands on the DB can be executed since it is in an updating process, the error log is empty and the operations log only contain this update and successfull backups.
Does anyone have any suggestions? I am not paying for Google Support so I cant get support directly from them (which I think is terrible since this a fully managed service).
Best,
Carl-Fredrik
I have been monitoring Cloud Storage billing daily and saw two unexpected, large spikes in "Download Worldwide Destinations (excluding Asia & Australia)" this month. The cost for this SKU is typically around US$2-4 daily; however, these two daily spikes have been $89 and $15.
I have enabled GCS Bucket Logging soon after the $89 spike, hoping to deduce what causes it the next time it happens, but when the $15 spike happened yesterday, I was unable to pinpoint which service or files downloaded have caused this spike.
There is a Log field named Location, but it appears to be linked to the region where a bucket is located, not the location of the downloader (that would contribute to the "Worldwide Destinations" egress).
As far as I know, my services are all in the southamerica-east1 region, but it's possible that there is either a legacy service or a misconfigured one that has been responsible for these spikes.
The bucket that did show up outside my region is in the U.S., but I concluded that it is not responsible for the spikes because the files there are under 30 kB and have only been downloaded 8 times according to the logs.
Is there any way to filter the logs so that it tells me as much information as possible to help me track down what is adding up the "Download Worldwide Destinations" cost? Specifically:
which files were downloaded
if it was one of my Google Cloud services, which one it was
Enable usage logs and export the log data to a new bucket.
Google Cloud Usage logs & storage logs
The logs will contain the IP address, you will need to use a geolocation service to map IP addresses to city/country.
Note:
Cloud Audit Logs do not track access to public objects.
Google Cloud Audit Logs restrictions
I want to create a web application for restaurants and because of business model reasons it should be a online web application (on the cloud). So a restaurant can have an account on the app and it creates its own menu and adds its waiters and the cook.
The waiters should be able to access the menu and place orders all the time. My main issue which i should decide how to go about is:
"How can i grant fulltime availability to the waiters or the cook even when the internet connection is lost for several seconds to several minutes or even hours during the day"
I was thinking of installing the app in a sever in the local network of the restaurant which takes over the responsibility of the could server when there is no internet connection which means all orders are saved in the DB of the local server. And as soon as the connection is back the local DB is synced to the cloud DB (i was told Postgresql might have plugins supporting this, via on-premise or sth similar). Which means local DB records should be pushed to the cloud DB.
Can someone give me a hint on what tech (open source and no enterprise solutions pls) to use, to accomplish the DB syncing when internet goes on and off.
Am i on the right track or completely off with what i suggested previously?
I created a bucket in a project. I subsequently deleted that project, so its bucket should be deleted along with it.
Now I'm attempting to make a bucket with the same name in another project, but I get the error:
"This bucket name is already in use. Bucket names must be globally unique. Try another name."
It's been over 12 hours. Documentation suggests that bucket IDs are supposed to get released if they are no longer in use. Will that bucket ID ever become available again?
From the support documentation:
Shutting down a project stops all billing and traffic serving, shuts
down any Google Cloud Platform App Engine applications, and terminates
all Compute Engine instances. All project data associated with Google
Cloud and Google APIs services becomes inaccessible.
After a 7-day waiting period, the project and associated data are
permanently deleted from the console.
Note that after the 7-day waiting period ends, the time it takes to
completely delete a project may vary. For example, if a project has
billing set up, it might not be completely deleted until the current
billing cycle ends, you receive the next bill, and your account is
successfully charged. Additionally, the number and types of services
in use may also affect when the system permanently deletes a project.