Consolidate cost reporting across multiple projects and billing accounts into a single, near-real-time visual dashboard. What should you do?

Enabling Billing export to BigQuery and visualizing the data in Data Studio (now Looker Studio) is the most effective solution for consolidating cost reporting across multiple projects and billing accounts into a single, near-real-time visual dashboard. BigQuery provides a scalable data warehouse for your detailed billing data, and Looker Studio offers powerful, customizable visualization capabilities. Exporting Cost Table CSVs is a manual process and not suitable for near-real-time, consolidated reporting. The Pricing Calculator is for estimating future costs, not for reporting on actual past or current spending. The Reports view in the Cloud Billing Console is useful for high-level overviews but lacks the customization and consolidation features needed for a comprehensive dashboard across multiple accounts.