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Overview

The GCP Analytics dashboard provides visibility into Google Cloud Platform (GCP) spending, efficiency, return on investment (ROI), sustainability metrics, budget utilization, and optimization opportunities. It helps engineering and cloud operations teams monitor cloud costs, identify waste, track savings opportunities, and prioritize optimization actions.

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Accessing GCP Analytics

1

Log in to G360

2

Open Cloud Provider Metrics

From the left navigation menu, select Cloud Provider Metrics.
3

Open GCP Analytics

The dashboard opens and displays cloud cost, efficiency, and optimization insights for your connected GCP environment.

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Dashboard controls

Time Granularity

Located in the upper-right corner of the dashboard. Options: Daily, Weekly, Monthly. Adjusts the reporting interval across dashboard metrics and charts.

Refresh

Click the refresh icon to retrieve the latest available cloud metrics and recommendations.

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Dashboard tabs

The dashboard has six tabs: Overview, Cost, Efficiency, ROI, Carbon, and Budget. Overview is displayed by default.

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Overview tab

Displays key cloud performance indicators and optimization opportunities.

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Overview metrics

Total Cloud Spend

Total cloud expenditure for the selected period.
  • Current spending value
  • Reporting period summary
  • Month-over-month trend

Forecast EOM

Projected end-of-month cloud spending.
  • Forecasted spend amount
  • Comparison against budget
  • Risk assessment indicator

Commitment Coverage

Utilization of committed cloud spending programs.
  • Amount currently committed
  • Remaining commitment capacity

Waste %

Estimated spend on underutilized or unnecessary resources.
  • Waste percentage
  • Estimated monetary impact

Savings Realized

Savings achieved through optimization initiatives.
  • Total savings value
  • Savings rate percentage

Cost / Customer

Average cloud cost per customer.
  • Current cost-per-customer value
  • Trend comparison against previous periods

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Sections

Highlights cloud optimization opportunities. Each recommendation includes a title, business impact, suggested action, and priority level (High, Medium, or Low).Example categories: instance right-sizing, commitment planning, storage optimization, lifecycle policy implementation, security improvements, workload optimization.
Displays cloud services with the largest spending changes during the selected period. Use it to identify significant cost increases, detect unusual spending patterns, and monitor service growth trends.
Displays cloud spending over six months. Use it to monitor spending growth, identify long-term cost patterns, and evaluate optimization effectiveness.
Displays cloud spend distribution across organizational teams. Use it to compare team-level spending, identify major cost contributors, and support budget allocation decisions.
Displays optimization opportunities ranked by estimated business value, showing priority, recommendation type, description, estimated savings, and current status (Ready, In Progress, Pending, or Review). Use it to prioritize initiatives with the highest potential return.

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Cost tab

Provides visibility into GCP spending, cost distribution, spending trends, and service-level cost changes. It helps you monitor cloud expenditure, identify anomalies, and understand which services contribute most to overall spend. To open it: go to Cloud Provider Metrics in the left navigation menu, select GCP Analytics, then click the Cost tab. Time period: the Cost dashboard supports Daily, Weekly, and Monthly reporting. Select the timeframe with the period selector in the upper-right corner of the page.

Month Spend

Spending for the current billing period.
  • Current: Total spend incurred during the current billing period.
  • Previous: Spend recorded during the previous comparable period.
  • Change: Percentage increase or decrease compared to the previous period.
Use it to understand overall spending performance and compare current costs against historical values.

End of Month Forecast

Projected spending based on current consumption patterns.
  • Projected: Estimated total spend at the end of the billing cycle.
  • Run Rate: Average spend per day.
  • Days Left: Remaining days in the billing cycle.
Use it to anticipate monthly cloud expenditure and identify potential budget overruns before the period ends.
Chart of spending over time, showing Monthly Spend and Cumulative Spend. Use it to:
  • Monitor spending growth trends
  • Compare monthly spending patterns
  • Understand cumulative cloud expenditure over time
  • Identify periods with significant cost increases
Breakdown of cloud costs by GCP service, for example Compute Engine, BigQuery, Kubernetes Engine, Cloud SQL, Cloud Storage, and Networking. Use it to:
  • Identify major cost contributors
  • Understand cost distribution across services
  • Support optimization and cost-reduction initiatives
Highlights unusual spending that exceeds expected baselines. Each entry shows the service where the anomaly was detected, the actual spend observed in the selected period, the expected or baseline spend, and the comparison between the two. Use it to:
  • Investigate unexpected cost spikes
  • Identify abnormal resource consumption
  • Prevent excessive cloud expenditure
  • Improve cost governance and monitoring
Service-level cost comparison between the current and previous reporting periods. Each row shows the service name, current period spend, previous period spend, absolute increase or decrease, and percentage change. Use it to:
  • Identify services driving cost increases
  • Track spending reductions
  • Analyze period-over-period cost changes
  • Prioritize optimization efforts for high-growth services
Interpretation: positive values indicate increased spending, and negative values indicate reduced spending. Significant changes may warrant further investigation to determine the underlying cause.

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ROI Settings guide

The ROI Settings module lets organizations configure the cost and productivity assumptions used for ROI calculations across:
  • LLM tools
  • AI coding tools
  • PR reviews
  • Cursor usage metrics
These settings help estimate productivity improvements, development time savings, human effort reduction, operational cost optimization, and AI adoption impact. ROI Settings is available under the Settings module.
1

Open the Engineering Metrics Dashboard

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Open Settings

Navigate to Settings from the left sidebar.
3

Open ROI Settings

The ROI Settings page contains the tabs LLM Settings, AI Coding Tool Settings, PR Settings, and Cursor Settings.