Review and apply FinOps hub Recommendations

With the FinOps hub Recommendations dashboard, you can access the Recommendations list, then click any of the recommendations to view the details of the recommendation and take action.

Permissions required to access the FinOps hub Recommendations

To access the FinOps hub and view available recommendations, the FinOps score and CUDs optimization metrics, you need either the Billing Account Administrator or the Billing Account Viewer role for your Cloud Billing account.

To view the recommendation detail panels, you need the Project Viewer role for each of the projects that you want to see recommendations for, and recommender-specific permissions. See the list of FinOps hub cost recommenders for the recommenders that contribute to hub metrics. To learn how to grant permissions to view recommendation updates, see Recommender overview.

To access the FinOps hub and Recommendations dashboard using a custom role, you need the following permissions on your Cloud Billing account:

  • billing.accounts.get
  • billing.accounts.getSpendingInformation
  • billing.finOpsBenchmarkInformation.get
  • billing.finOpsHealthInformation.get
  • recommender.costRecommendations.listAll

Open the Recommendations dashboard

Example of the Potential savings per month widget in the FinOps hub.

To view the Recommendations dashboard:

  1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the FinOps hub.

    Go to FinOps hub

  2. At the prompt, choose the Cloud Billing account for which you want to view the FinOps hub.

  3. In the FinOps hub, from the Potential savings/month chart, click View all recommendations.

Explore the Recommendations dashboard

Example of the FinOps Recommendations list.

In the Recommendations dashboard, you can review all of the FinOps recommendations, view the recommendation details, send recommendations to others to review, and apply recommendations to optimize your cloud costs.

  • When you first open the Recommendations dashboard, by default, the page shows all savings recommendations, for all services and projects, including Savings not specific to a project.
  • You can use the Services and Projects dropdowns to focus the page on a smaller set of recommendations.
  • The options available in the Services and Projects dropdowns are limited to the services and projects with active recommendations.
  • If you select an individual service, or opt to view only some of the projects, the values in the summary (such as Last month's realized savings or Potential savings/month) and the recommendations in the list update based on the selections.
  • The project option of Savings not specific to a project applies to costs and credits that are calculated at the billing account level, such as commitment fees.
  • CUDs savings are calculated with costs and credits applied at both the billing account level and the project level. If you limit your recommendations view to Savings not specific to a project, you might see negative amounts in the savings summary. To view the most accurate CUD recommendations and realized CUD savings, select all projects.
  • Use the optimization category tabs to focus your list of recommendations to a specific savings category, such as switching off idle resources, right-sizing instances, or purchasing additional CUDs.
  • Use the Filter feature to select list properties to narrow your results.
  • If you have the Recommender Viewer role on your Cloud Billing account, you can select a recommendation to get further details and to apply the recommendation. Depending on the type of recommendation, you might also need project permissions to view the details and apply a recommendation.

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