API Usage info & potential billing penalties

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Dim Pan

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Jul 6, 2020, 4:06:00 AM7/6/20

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Hello to all!

I have been using the API successfully for some time now for my company, but two questions are really bothering us:

1) we're in the process to pull some data (using Targeting Ideas Service) in order to improve our business, but we cannot monitor the requests. There is no graph or logs displaying API usage. Is there a way to clearly check on the API usage and not rely just on estimations?

2) we gained Basic Access and as far as I understand we are not subject to Required Minimum Functionality. So is it true (as per in the Adwords API documentation) that we will NOT get billed any amount if we hit certain limits when making requests?

Thank you in advance!

Google Ads API Forum Advisor Prod

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Jul 7, 2020, 10:38:55 AM7/7/20

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Hi Dim,

Thank you for reaching out. Please find my response to your questions below:

You could log into the Google API console and under your project check the Google Ads API Metrics and monitor the API usage and requests.
You will not get billed based on the access level you have. However, if you hit the limits when making requests with the basic access level, you will not be able to make any more requests during that day.

Thanks and regards,
Xiaoming, Google Ads API Team