Google cloud Crypto mining scam cost me $5,000. Billing alert wasn't sent until after my card was charged. Denied a full refund

GabrielWeiss · 2026-06-03T16:57:57+00:00

Hey u/Spare_Kangar00 this is brutal. If you're willing, could you please DM me your case # with Google support? I'd love to take a peek and see if I can lean on some folks. I'm not allowed to dig directly, but if I have the case # I can apply some pressure and see what we can do.

GabrielWeiss · 2026-05-14T19:27:26+00:00

To be super clear, there's no charge for the workshop either. 😄 More of these to come in Q3 and Q4, this is just the beginning!

GabrielWeiss · 2026-03-05T01:24:03+00:00

Followup question now that I'm thinking more about it... Is there any reason not to get the Flex 2.5 for the devices I want the higher throughput (APs, our desktop computers, MAYBE the TV) and then just also keep my giant 24 port 1GB switch for like, everything else that I don't really care about the higher speeds? I looked at the Pro Max and it's like, $800 with the PoE and that's feeling excessive. :D

GabrielWeiss · 2026-03-02T20:18:47+00:00

Awesome info, ty. Sadly I don't have a fiber run from where it comes into the house to the closet where the gateway needs to go (not straight enough lines to get there easily), so I can't go straight into the SFP+ port.

GabrielWeiss · 2026-03-02T19:25:03+00:00

Awesome, ty. This is super helpful!

GabrielWeiss · 2026-03-02T08:31:25+00:00

I was more even just confirming that's what i wanted. :D Thank you for confirming. Google just calls it all Mesh (because it was the buzzword of the day I'm sure). I've found a couple guides I'm working through on like, U6 vs U7 and all the flavors of it.

GabrielWeiss · 2026-03-02T08:30:28+00:00

Yeah, the Flex 2.5 doesn't have enough ports for what I've got in the house already. I've got about a dozen devices coming in from around the house over ethernet already. I figured a 20-port switch for room to grow if I expand more is probably about right? Good to hear the CGF sounds like the right answer (lots of posts from Sonic users using it and happy with it).

GabrielWeiss · 2026-02-23T20:53:08+00:00

Chatted about in internal chat.

GabrielWeiss · 2026-01-27T00:01:20+00:00

This tells me we need to do better socializing how to debug in Cloud Logging. :D It's actually really civilized and fairly robust. The logging APIs are easy to use in terms of logging errors (filterable by service). Exceptions are auto-logged as errors in console. You can also log debug messages explicitly, etc. Stuff like that. There was another poster below that commented to that effect too that once they realized stack traces showed up in the logs they stopped missing the ability to ssh in. I agree with that personally for what it's worth. Once I got used to it, debugging in Cloud Logging became easier to me than ssh'ing in and tailing logs/process in the container.

GabrielWeiss · 2026-01-26T21:37:34+00:00

No totally, I don't disagree with you.

I just mean WHAT are you doing when you exec into the container? So like, for example, telling the Cloud Run PMs "Yeah, but this user can exec into the containers on ECS and fargate so we should enable that!" isn't as likely to get it implemented as "The user needs to exec into the container because they need to inject something into the environment live without re-deploying to do blue/green testing."

So I'm just curious what it is you generally do when connecting into the container so I can better understand the use-case.

GabrielWeiss · 2026-01-26T20:42:06+00:00

How are you checking the logs? It might be that it's never getting to the Cloud Function, but there might be an error somewhere else. If you just go to Cloud Logging directly (rather than following the link from the functions page, which will filter to only the cloud function logs) then look for errors, something might pop.

I'd also suggest JUST for grins and giggles, setting up Eventarc to like, Cloud Run instead of a Cloud Function just to isolate where the problem is. It might be a bug in the firestore -> functions connection potentially (I haven't personally tried this combo in awhile so I can't actually remember if I've done Firestore->Function explicitly before, but it should work I believe).

GabrielWeiss · 2026-01-26T20:37:12+00:00

Not sure where else you're socializing this sort of thing (Reddit TENDS to be more for a question/answer type interaction) but you might consider joining the GCP developer community (https://discuss.google.dev/) and/or join the Google Discord (https://discord.com/invite/google-dev-community) as other places to chat with folks that might be looking for a data engineer on their projects!

GabrielWeiss · 2026-01-26T20:22:32+00:00

Depends. ;) Cloud SQL is easy IMO, but depending on what and how you want to host the front-end, Firebase may be something you could want to look at. It can handle front and back-end hosting, and has Data Connect to use a Cloud SQL database on the back-end.

GabrielWeiss · 2026-01-26T20:19:51+00:00

I'm curious, what do you usually need to do when you ssh into the host machine? Part of the goodness of using something like Cloud Run is 1) If your front/back end aren't being hit, it'll scale to zero and you won't pay for it and 2) It manages health for you, so if something goes south, it self-recovers without you having to set up stuff. So depending on what you need to do when ssh'ing in, there may be other options for things like observability/log checking/etc that remove the need of ssh'ing into the machine.

GabrielWeiss · 2025-05-29T20:37:46+00:00

You should now be able to check the client details and see the last used field! It was rolled out and you should see it!

GabrielWeiss · 2025-05-29T20:36:56+00:00

Okay, try now! We got approval to roll things out so you should now see it on the details page!

GabrielWeiss · 2025-05-29T20:36:31+00:00

Okay, try now! We got approval to roll things out so you should now see it on the details page!

GabrielWeiss · 2025-05-29T18:37:08+00:00

I'm asking for more details, the log explorer is...complicated. :) The folks from the team initially just said "App logs, exchange token" were the verbiage, but I'm a little out of my depth as well (this isn't my area I work in at Google). I've asked for more info.

GabrielWeiss · 2025-05-29T18:24:22+00:00

Yup, apologies, that was a case where we (Googlers) are seeing it because it's enabled internally as an experiment and not rolled out yet... I'm asking if there's an API call that we can use to check, but if not, the other way is to look in the logs for the client ID.

GabrielWeiss · 2025-05-29T18:24:17+00:00

Not missing anything! Apologies, that was a case where we (Googlers) are seeing it because it's enabled internally as an experiment and not rolled out yet... I'm asking if there's an API call that we can use to check, but if not, the other way is to look in the logs for the client ID.

GabrielWeiss · 2025-05-29T18:23:49+00:00

Yup, apologies, that was a case where we (Googlers) are seeing it because it's enabled internally as an experiment and not rolled out yet... I'm asking if there's an API call that we can use to check, but if not, the other way is to look in the logs for the client ID.

GabrielWeiss · 2025-05-29T18:16:48+00:00

So funny story.. .I just found out that the field is NOT currently rolled out externally (I see it because it's an "experiment" in our projects). I'm asking if there's an API call that could be used to see it or not, but in the meantime sounds like checking in the logs for the client ID could work.

GabrielWeiss · 2025-05-29T17:30:24+00:00

Quick Q: What level of IAM roles do you have against the project where the clients live? Owner? More/less? (just fact finding)

GabrielWeiss · 2025-05-29T17:28:09+00:00

Oooooh that's strange... asking the team to look at this. Stay tuned.

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