Compute Engine pricing drastic increase - need help figuring out why

[jackson-oomdo]

This month, May 2023, my compute engine cost was about $150 more than usual. I haven't made any significant changes so I was wondering if there is any way to drill down into the compute engine costs further so I can attribute the increase to something specific and hopefully then be able to make adjustments.

I attached a screenshot of a chart of the daily costs for the last 3 months and you can see that end of April the costs start to dramatically increase.

Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

[Andrew_Tyt · Accepted solution]

As a first step, you can change the graph to Projects view (if you have a multi-project environment) and reduce the search region, After, filter the project and Compute service and group by SKU - here you can see what kind of units extended like CPU, RAM, Disk, Network, etc.

After, depending on the result you can check labels if you have some, or monitoring metrics for localization VM or service 

[jackson-oomdo]

Hey,

Group by SKU is what I was looking for, thank you!