Compute Costs

Masthead analyzes BigQuery compute resource consumption and provides recommendations based on the pipelines and resource usage patterns. These recommendations help leverage the most cost-effective BigQuery compute models.

Saving options on Compute Cost Insights page

Recommendations

Alternative Compute Models

Masthead analyzes BigQuery compute resource consumption and provides recommendations for the most cost-effective BigQuery compute models.

See Reservation Assignments for detailed guidance on:

• Model recommendations for projects, workloads, pipelines and third-party services
• Pipeline-level optimization strategies

Pipelines with Dead-End Downstream

Masthead identifies and tags tables with no downstream consumption as Dead-End Tables. This allows you to identify running upstream pipelines that only produce these tables. Review and reclaim resources by switching off such pipelines.

Recommendation:

1. Check recommendations for pipelines with dead-end tables on Costs Insights page:

   

   Pipelines with dead-end tables

2. Verify the tables have no consumers downstream on the Dictionary and Lineage pages.

3. Adjust or disable upstream pipelines to reduce unnecessary compute spend.