Multiple projects under one billing account require automated, company-specific cost metrics and visualizations. What should you do?

Enabling Cloud Billing export to BigQuery for the billing account provides a robust, scalable, and automated solution for detailed cost analysis across multiple projects. BigQuery can store large volumes of billing data, and Looker Studio can then connect directly to this BigQuery dataset to create dynamic, company-specific dashboards and visualizations. This approach allows for custom metrics and advanced analysis beyond what is available in the console. Using Cloud Billing Reports or Cost breakdown views in the console offers pre-defined visualizations but lacks the customization and automation needed for company-specific metrics. Exporting to CSV and building a Looker Studio dashboard is a manual process that doesn't scale well and isn't automated for ongoing updates.