GCP Onboarding

Learn how to integrate your GCP account with North.Cloud

Based on your billing account's data volume, Google Cloud may take up to 5 days to fully migrate your data during billing export. If possible, initiate the billing export before starting onboarding to speed up the process. You can resume onboarding at any time. More from the official GCP documentation.`

Prerequisites:

• If you don't have an account, we recommend you create a free account first at app.north.cloud

• Make sure you have the following minimum role BigQuery Data Owner within the billing account to create and share billing datasets.

1

Go to the Billing Export

Select the billing account you want to add and click Edit Settings.

2

Enable billing export for all

You will repeat the step 3 below for all billing reports.

• Standard usage cost

• Detailed usage cost

• Pricing

3

Select a project and billing dataset

Selecting a project does not prevent other projects under your billing account from being included in your dataset. It merely serves as a storage location for the data. You can create a new project and dataset or utilize an existing one.

Choose the project where your data will be hosted. Don't worry, all projects under your billing account will be available. You can set the dataset name to whatever convention you prefer or use our recommended north_billing_dataset

4

Enable the recommender

When enabling the recommender, you will receive a permission request from GCP. While this request might seem confusing, rest assured it is just the Recommender service seeking access to your other GCP services to provide accurate recommendations.

North.Cloud utilizes Google Cloud Platform (GCP) recommendations and integrates them with our internal machine learning and AI services.

• Choose the same project and billing dataset used earlier.

• Configure transfer; this will dictate the frequency at which recommendation can be generated we generally recommend the following:

  • Name: north_config

  • Schedule option: Daily ( Day, 1 )

  • Start: 00:00

  • Destination settings: Previously created/selected dataset

5

Share the billing data set with North.Cloud

• Select your billing data set, click Share>Permissions. Add the Principal ID shared during onboarding and attach the following roles BigQuery Data Viewer and BigQuery Metadata Viewer

• Add your project id and billing dataset name to North.Cloud

6

Select the corresponding datasets in North.Cloud

If you have an already existing billing export with custom names for your dataset you will have to manually select them in the dropdown. If this is your first time creating the export or no naming change was made, you can leave the predefined selection.

After sharing the permissions with North.Cloud, the final step is to appropriately define the datasets associated with Standard usage cost , Detailed usage cost and Pricing .

7

Start saving

Once North.Cloud completes your savings and data analysis, we'll send you a confirmation email. You'll then have access to all our AI-powered optimization features, the same tools that help leading companies achieve top 1% cloud efficiency.