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Monitor usage and credits

See how many credits your account used each month, who and which projects used them, and set monthly limits. For account admins.

Prerequisites

  • You are an admin of the account. Members see Account admin access required on this page.
  • The account has members with product access. Until then Activity is locked in the pane.

Read the Activity page

  1. Open the account menu and click Account settings.
  2. Click Activity. Beside it in the pane, a chip shows the share of the account's limit used, the prepaid balance, or No limit.

The page opens on the current month. Previous month and Next month step through earlier months.

The top row has up to three cards:

  • The month's usage, titled with the month: the credits used, month to date (UTC) for the current month, split into what was billed and what free credits covered, with an estimated amount.
  • Free credits: the free credits left, while any remain. They are used before anything is billed and don't reset with the month.
  • Monthly usage limit, for the current month: the share of the limit used, with a progress bar, the date it resets and an Adjust button. It reads No limit set. when there is none, Blocked when the limit is 0, and says the usage limit is reached once the month's usage reaches it. Stops when the free credits run out. shows when the account stops there.

Money amounts on this page are estimates at the account's plan credit price, excluding tax. Totals count platform usage only: account fees and credit grants aren't usage.

Break usage down by activity, user or project

Under Credit usage breakdown, a chart shows the month's daily usage. The toggle switches it between Activity, Users and Projects; under Activity, the chips filter it by kind of activity.

  • User activity lists members ranked by the credits they used this month, each with their share of account usage.
  • Project activity lists projects the same way. Open project opens one.

Each list shows its top five; a View all button shows the rest, and the search field narrows them. Select a row to highlight it in the chart.

Set a member's monthly limit

  1. In User activity, click Set user limit on the member's row. The member's monthly usage limit dialog opens with what they have used this month.
  2. Enter Credits a month, or the amount in your currency. Leave it empty for no limit of their own; the account's limit still applies.
  3. Click Save.

A member's limit applies to the current calendar month (UTC). If they have already used more than the new limit, the dialog warns that it blocks them now.

Set the account limit

  1. In Monthly usage limit, click Adjust. The Monthly usage limit dialog opens with what the account has used this month.
  2. Enter Credits a month, or the amount in your currency. Free credits count towards it. Leave it empty for no limit; a limit of 0 blocks all usage.
  3. While the account has free credits left, you can also tick Stop when the free credits run out.
  4. Click Save.

A limit is checked before new work starts. Work that is already running always finishes, even if it goes over.

Check Google Cloud spend

Click Billing in the pane. Above the invoices, Managed Google Cloud Billing shows the Google Cloud billing account attached to your Build environments with its Current calendar month spend, Last 7 days spend and Last 30 days spend.

What members see

Members do not see account figures. When a limit stops them, the message they get says whether their own limit or the account's limit was reached, so they know whether to ask an admin.