Get cost savings report

Metadata only access to BigQuery is needed to generate your initial cost saving report and to track your costs and savings going forward. This is the minimum needed to get started with Alvin:

Query Logs

[Optional] Access to billing data helps Alvin calibrate your spend and the savings estimates to a higher degree of accuracy. You may want to do this from the start, or add it later once you start using the Optimizer:

Billing Data