Domain 1.2: Managing billing configuration — GCP ACE Practice Question 05

How to approach this question

Look for the native integration path for custom budget alerts: Budgets -> Pub/Sub -> Cloud Function -> External API.

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B.Create a billing budget, connect it to a Pub/Sub topic, and trigger a Cloud Function to send the Slack message.✓ Correct

Create a billing budget, connect it to a Pub/Sub topic, and trigger a Cloud Function to send the Slack message.

To send custom notifications (like a Slack message) based on budget thresholds, you should configure the Cloud Billing budget to publish notifications to a Cloud Pub/Sub topic. You then create a Cloud Function subscribed to that topic, which processes the JSON message and posts it to the Slack webhook URL.

Common mistakes

Assuming Cloud Monitoring can natively handle budget alerts to Slack without Pub/Sub, or choosing BigQuery exports which are for analysis, not real-time alerting.

Your company wants to be notified immediately in their Slack channel whenever their monthly Google Cloud spending exceeds 90% of their $5,000 budget.

What is the MOST efficient way to configure this?

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Practice the full GCP Associate Cloud Engineer Practice Exam 5

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Your company wants to be notified immediately in their Slack channel whenever their monthly Google Cloud spending exceeds 90% of their $5,000 budget. What is the MOST efficient way to configure this?

How to approach this question

Full Answer

Common mistakes

Practice the full GCP Associate Cloud Engineer Practice Exam 5

More questions from this exam

Your company wants to be notified immediately in their Slack channel whenever their monthly Google Cloud spending exceeds 90% of their $5,000 budget.

What is the MOST efficient way to configure this?