Baseline first
Without normal, everything looks like an incident.
Learn · Cost
BigQuery cost spikes
Detecting 2× jobs and missing partition filters.
The problem
One explore drops a partition filter. A 2.4× job burns the month’s curiosity budget by Wednesday.
The outcome
Detect spikes against baseline, show the offending job context, and point at the usual fixes.
Threshold
vs baseline
Common cause
Missing partition filter
Savings
Playbook-led
What you get
Partition filters
The #1 self-inflicted BigQuery wound.
Cluster and limit
Secondary playbooks when filters already exist.
Finance-ready context
Pasteable numbers, not archaeology.
- ✓Product: /vectordata/cost-spikes
- ✓Scenario: /case-studies/northwind-cost-spike
- ✓Compare: /compare/custom-scripts
- ✓Demo
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