Cost spike alerts
Unusually expensive jobs called out before the invoice lands.
Use case
BigQuery cost spikes
Catch the rogue scan before finance sees the invoice.
The problem
One Looker explore drops a partition filter. Bytes billed jump overnight. Nobody owns the query. The month’s warehouse budget is gone by Wednesday.
The outcome
VectorData watches job statistics for unusual bytes billed, surfaces top expensive jobs, and pairs spikes with cost playbooks you can hand to the owner.
Job stats
Bytes billed — not query result rows
Baselines
Spike vs your recent spend pattern
Playbooks
Partition filters and scan fixes
Capabilities
Top expensive queries
Who burned what — enough context to assign an owner.
Savings playbooks
Concrete fixes (partition filters, clustering) with estimated recovery.
Flat pricing
You don’t pay Vectornosis more because BigQuery got louder.
- ✓Reads job statistics metadata — never result sets
- ✓Pro plans include cost spike alerts and top expensive queries
- ✓Free cost calculator on /calculator before you book an audit
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