I have a GA 360 view that gets decent amount of traffic daily and i want to export the hit level data (using GA_client_id) to the aws s3 server. the limitation here is that GA API allows only 10000 records a day. someone suggested that if we put the GA_client_id in a custom dimension, the limit would not apply. is it true? please let me know if there is another solution to export more than 10000 records for a single view per day. please note that this will be a single query that will auto run daily at a specific time.
Thank you so much in advance.
10000 records a day.
Correction 10000 requests per day per view. A request response can include millions of records (rows)
I am using the free bigquery sandbox to generate some custom metrics based on my analytics data. I have read in the documentation that the expiration time of table in free account is 60 days. What does this expiration time means ? What will exactly happen after 60 days. All my datas will be lost ? How can i increase the expiration time in this case ? Should i need to pay for it ? If yes, what will be the cost ?
According to the documentation:
The BigQuery sandbox gives you free access to the power of BigQuery
subject to the sandbox's limits. The sandbox allows you to use the web
UI in the Cloud Console without providing a credit card. You can use
the sandbox without creating a billing account or enabling billing for
your project.
In addition, according to the limits :
All datasets have the default table expiration time and the default
partition expiration set to 60 days. Any tables, views, or partitions
in partitioned tables automatically expire after 60 days.
You can edit this expiration date if your data is exported to BigQuery but, in order to do that, you have to upgrade the project's plan to use it (if needed). Then you would be billed by the amount of bytes processed, you can check the billing options here.
Thus, within BigQuery you can edit the expiration date. In BigQuery, you go to Project > Dataset > Table > Details > click in the pencil next to the table's name and set expiration date to never or select a date. As follows:
I have run some queries against BigQuery public data sets for weather. I have used both GSOD (bigquery-public-data.noaa_gsod.gsod2019)and GHCN (bigquery-public-data.ghcn_d). In both cases, the most recent data I get is from 4 or 5 days ago. Why is that? What can I do to get more recent historic data e.g. this morning or yesterday by lat and long.
Those historical datasets are provided by NOAA a few days delayed. For real-time weather, you have to use one of the commercial weather data providers in the Marketplace.
I'm running the following query to select the active users for a time frame on my project.
SELECT DISTINCT
active_users,
unix
FROM [mobileapp_logs].[dbo].[active_users]
WHERE (rtrim(app_id) + ':' + app_os) = 'tbl'
AND [aggregation] = '30-day-active'
AND [unix] BETWEEN 1491696000 AND 1494288000
AND active_users >= 100
The query seems to be working but with every row returned for that day it will give me about 10 - 30 more than what's in firebase. Is this normal for bigquery -> firebase?
I'm not familiar with the table you are querying, according to the documentation Firebase imports data to app_events_intraday_YYYYMMDD. Could you provide more information about [mobileapp_logs].[dbo].[active_users]?
According to different SO questions it seems there may be a delay of a few days where offline devices upload their data. Also Firebase updates data in BigQuery daily. Since you are querying up until today you may be seeing data that has already been updated in Firebase but not in BigQuery. I would recommend changing your query to a range ending 3 days before today.
I know that BigQuery offers the first "1 TB of data processed" per month for free but I can't figure out where to look on my dashboard to see my monthly usage. I used to be able to "revert" to the old dashboard which had the info but for the past couple of weeks the "old dashboard" isn't accessible.
From the Google Cloud Console overview page for your project, click on the "details" section on the top-right, next to the charge estimate :
You'll get an estimate of the charges for the current month for each service and item in the service, including Big Query analysis :
If you want to track this usage, you can also export the data into CSV every day by going in the Billing settings and enable the usage export feature. Do not worry about the fact that it only mentions Compute Engine, it actually works for other services also.
You can also access directly the billing history by clicking on the billing account link :
You will get a detailed bill with the usage info :
Post GCP Console Redesign Answer
The GCP console was redesigned and now the other answer here no longer applies, but it is still possible to view your usage by going to IAM & Admin -> Quotas.
What you're looking for is "Big Query API: Query usage per day". It doesn't seem possible to view your usage over 30 days unfortunately, but you can see your current usage (per day) and your peak usage over the past 7 days. You can also set a daily quota. If you're just working infrequently or doing a lot in one day, you can set a quota to 1 TiB and prevent yourself from blowing your whole allocation in one day.
You can try sending feedback about these limitations, like I did, by clicking the question mark at the top right and then send feedback.
Theo is correct that there is no way to view the number of bytes processed or billed since the start of the month (inside of the free tier) in the GCP Billing Console. However, you can extract the bytes processed and bytes billed data from logs in Cloud Logging and calculate the total bytes processed/billed since the start of the month inside of BigQuery.
Here are the steps to count total bytes billed in a month:
Under Cloud Logging, go to Logs Explorer (NOT the Legacy Logs Explorer) and run the following query in the query builder frame:
resource.type="bigquery_project" AND
protoPayload.metadata.jobChange.job.jobStats.queryStats.totalBilledBytes>1 AND
timestamp>="2021-04-01T00:00:00Z"
The timestamp clause is not actually necessary, but it will speed up the query. You can set timestamp >= <value> to any valid timestamp you want as long as it returns at least one result.
In the Query Results frame, click the "Action" button, and select "Create Sink".
In the window that opens, give your sink a name, click "Next", and in the "Select sink service" dropdown menu select "BigQuery dataset".
In the "Select BigQuery dataset" dropdown menu, either select an existing dataset where you would like to create your sink (which is a table containing logs) or if you prefer, choose "Create new BigQuery dataset.
Finally, you will likely want to check the box for Partition Table, since this will help you control costs whenever you query this sink. As of the time of this answer, however, Google limits partition tables to 4000 partitions, so you may find it is necessary to clear out old logs eventually.
Click "Create Sink" (there is no need for any inclusion or exclusion filters).
Run a query in BigQuery that produces bytes billed (i.e. a query that does not return a previously cached result). This is necessary to instantiate the sink. Moments after your query runs, you should now see a table called <your_biquery_dataset>.cloudaudit_googleapis_com_data_access
Enter the following Standard SQL query in the BigQuery query editor:
WITH
bytes_table AS (
SELECT
JSON_VALUE(protopayload_auditlog.metadataJson,
'$.jobChange.job.jobStats.createTime') AS date_time,
JSON_VALUE(protopayload_auditlog.metadataJson,
'$.jobChange.job.jobStats.queryStats.totalBilledBytes') AS billedbytes
FROM
`<your_project><your_bigquery_dataset>.cloudaudit_googleapis_com_data_access`
WHERE
EXTRACT(MONTH
FROM
timestamp) = 4
AND EXTRACT(YEAR
FROM
timestamp) = 2021)
SELECT
(SUM(CAST(billedbytes AS INT64))/1073741824) AS total_GB
FROM
bytes_table;
You will want to chance the month from 4 to whatever month you intend to query, and 2021 to whatever year you intend to query. Also, you may find it helpful to save this query as a view if you intend to rerun it periodically.
Be advised that your sink does not contain your past BigQuery logs, only BigQuery logs produced after you created the sink. Therefore in the first month the number of GB returned by this query will not be an accurate count your bytes billed in month unless you happen to have created the sink prior to running any queries in BigQuery during the current month.
Might be related to How can I monitor incurred BigQuery billings costs (jobs completed) by table/dataset in real-time?
If you are fine by using BigQuery itself to get that information (instead of using a UI), you can use something like this:
DECLARE gb_divisor INT64 DEFAULT 1024*1024*1024;
DECLARE tb_divisor INT64 DEFAULT gb_divisor*1024;
DECLARE cost_per_tb_in_dollar INT64 DEFAULT 5;
DECLARE cost_factor FLOAT64 DEFAULT cost_per_tb_in_dollar / tb_divisor;
SELECT
ROUND(SUM(total_bytes_processed) / gb_divisor,2) as bytes_processed_in_gb,
ROUND(SUM(IF(cache_hit != true, total_bytes_processed, 0)) * cost_factor,4) as cost_in_dollar,
user_email,
FROM (
(SELECT * FROM `region-us`.INFORMATION_SCHEMA.JOBS_BY_USER)
UNION ALL
(SELECT * FROM `other-project.region-us`.INFORMATION_SCHEMA.JOBS_BY_USER)
)
WHERE
DATE(creation_time) BETWEEN DATE_SUB(CURRENT_DATE(), INTERVAL 30 DAY) and CURRENT_DATE()
GROUP BY
user_email
Open in BigQuery UI
Explanation
Please consider the caveats I mentioned in my answer here