Hello Brian, First things first, you are running App Engine Flexible instances. To stop them from running you should go to the Versions <https://console.cloud.google.com/appengine/versions> page, select the version that currently has instances running and click the STOP button. This will shutdown running instances for that version of your service. You also have the option of disabling your application <https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/python/console/#disabling_an_application> so that it cannot accrue any charges.
Regarding the free tier of App Engine <https://cloud.google.com/free/>, please note that it as well as the ability to scale down to zero instances are only available on the App Engine Standard environment while you are using the App Engine Flexible environment. You can view a comparison of these environments here <https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/the-appengine-environments>. I hope this helped. On Friday, November 17, 2017 at 5:33:37 PM UTC-5, Brian Bonner wrote: > > I followed this tutorial: > https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/flexible/nodejs/quickstart > > I really wanted to attempt to deploy a docker-compose configuration to GCP > to see how it would work, but I scaled it back, since it seemed like it was > a very manual process. > > So, I went through the tutorial on 11/10/2017. I revisited it yesterday > for a UX call w/ Google and to my surprise it said I owed $13.06. Today > it was $16. > > > I was panicking . How do I turn off this faucet??? > > > <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-J6NgSYl3NsI/Wg9XqP_huGI/AAAAAAABBBk/zzr0wnH-ioEWFkU6c-df5_v5VG5_NeGOwCLcBGAs/s1600/faucet1.png> > > > I was looking everywhere. I looked at the billing details -- which > didn't match the dashboard. It showed app-engine flex core and app-engine > flex memory. > > > <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-RcOR9py_Rf0/Wg9dATS1EHI/AAAAAAABBB4/ZfL12ZvbejENmaQMawKXNRxMs-9gKQ7iQCLcBGAs/s1600/faucet2.png> > > > So I went to the app-engine dashboard and it showed zilch under the > instance overview. > > > <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-C_f-gwpY5NI/Wg9dESHmIlI/AAAAAAABBB8/4QpfqWcbMukixNp4L4EDan5DqCuOf_dfACLcBGAs/s1600/faucet3.png> > > > So I went to instances, I saw two instances there, but it wouldn't let me > delete them. > > > <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-2Fz-Ww2wS34/Wg9dIEfCiAI/AAAAAAABBCA/lr6u2v338Vg1Ar0SJdPJzVQoD6x-jiBcwCLcBGAs/s1600/faucet4.png> > > > I was going to disable the project, but the text on the settings page said > that charges would continue to be incurred. > > > <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-q1IpVYfReaY/Wg9duCh7lUI/AAAAAAABBCI/VcnAEsXgfmE1oulo1SHNHlNhXFUyWTEegCLcBGAs/s1600/faucet5.png> > > How do I stop this thing??? > > So after the price went up again, I went back to the tutorial and found > cleanup. Basically it said I have to delete the project. > > > Is this really the only way to stop billing? Delete the project? > There's no way to stop the container? Or something else? I didn't want > to do it because of this warning in the tutorial: > > *Warning:* Deleting a project has the following consequences: > > - If you used an existing project, you'll also delete any other work > you've done in the project. > - You can't reuse the project ID of a deleted project. If you created > a custom project ID that you plan to use in the future, you should > delete the resources inside the project instead. This ensures that > URLs that use the project ID, such as an appspot.com URL, remain > available. > > As you can see, I tried to delete resources to no avail. It was so > frustrating. > > I see on the charges page ( > https://cloud.google.com/appengine/pricing#flexible-environment-instances) > that most of the charges are related to the vCPU. How do I turn them off > when I'm not using them? > > Can't google provide a better way of showing where the billing expenses > are coming from? Is there a command line way to spit out a detail > invoices? > > Jordan's post here: > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/google-appengine/flex$20charges|sort:date/google-appengine/uaiyicw6rhg/ole26VFlBwAJ > > seems to indicate that specifying autoscaling vs. manual: 1 will save > money, but this document: > https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/flexible/nodejs/configuring-your-app-with-app-yaml > > seems to indicate that the minimum # of instances is 1 no matter what: So > how would this save money? It seems so contradictory. > > min_num_instances Must be 1 or greater, default is 2 to reduce latency. > When a service is deployed, it is given the minimum number of instances and > scales according to traffic. > > > I thought the tutorial for app engine would end up being free based upon > this: https://cloud.google.com/free/ It says app-engine is free. > > So why was I charged in the first place? > > Thank you, > > Brian > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/57a0b20c-52bf-483d-836a-4b09a09369be%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
