How can I avoid being charged for Tensorboard?

[user8294]

Today I received an email from GCP saying that my account will be charged for using Vertex AI Tensorboard from February. It is quite expensive and I want to stop using the service and avoid being charged.

How can I do that? There is no option for Tensorboard in the API dashboard (just one for Vertex AI generally). I only have "basic support" so I cannot contact technical support, and I am not the billing administrator so I cannot contact billing support. Is there any way I can disable Tensorboard?

Thank you.

[sam]

Hello,

Thanks for reaching out regarding Vertex AI TensorBoard pricing, and disabling the service. 

TensorBoard is currently free of charge as it is a preview product. Vertex AI will launch a new generally available (GA) pricing model for Vertex AI TensorBoard in February 2022, as you mentioned, which will be charged per user, per month. 

=> You will be charged for a user if they view the Vertex AI TensorBoard webapp during a given billing period, and the VertexAI product teams plan will be to have this gated by a custom IAM role. 

=> Given that Tensorboard is part of the VertexAI API, it cannot be disabled without also disabling all of VertexAI. It may however be possible to avoid being charged by setting all the TensorBoard quotas to zero in the Google Cloud Platform Quotas page [1], and restricting what users get assigned the IAM role once it is available.

[1] GCP quotas: console.cloud.google.com/iam-admin/quotas

[user8294]

I think I have a super user role, so it sounds like I should set the quotas to zero when they become available. Thank you slando.