Database Center release notes

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Database Center added support for Bigtable, Firestore, and Memorystore so you can view and analyze their resources in your fleet inventory. Database Center also added support for detecting the following health issues in Bigtable and Firestore:

Displayed Bigtable health issues:

• Resource not failover protected
• No automated backup policy
• Short backup retention
• Last backup failed
• Last backup older than 24 hours
• Not replicating across all regions

Displayed Firestore health issues

• No automated backup policy

Spanner is now available on Database Center in Preview. You can track your Spanner resources in the fleet inventory section and the resource table in the Database Center. You can also use Database Center to monitor the following health issues for your Spanner resources:

• Short backup retention
• Last backup older than 24h
• Not replicating across regions

You can now access Database Center without enabling Gemini in Databases. Supported health issues are in one of three tiers: Standard, Gemini in Databases, or Security Command Center (SCC). For more information about health issues and their tiers, see Supported health issues.

The following Database Center features are now available in Preview:

New health issues: Database Center supports new health issues in the following categories for AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL, Cloud SQL for MySQL, and Cloud SQL for SQL Server:

• Industry compliance
• Performance and capacity
• Security
• Event Threat Detection (ETD) from Security Command Center

To learn details about supported health issues, see Database health issues.

CSV export: You can export database fleet inventory information to a comma-separated values (CSV) file. For more information, see Export database fleet inventory information.

All Resources page: The Database Center dashboard now offers a separate page for database resources, which includes additional metadata columns. For more information, see Filter resources and export fleet inventory information.

Additional resource metadata: On the All Resources page, Database Center now displays additional metadata for each relevant database resource, including machine configuration (CPU count and memory size) and utilization metrics (current CPU utilization, memory utilization, and storage utilization as percentages of total capacity).

Gemini in Databases is now in Preview. This includes Database Center, which supports Cloud SQL for MySQL, Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL, Cloud SQL for SQL Server, and AlloyDB for PostgreSQL. For more information, see the Gemini in Databases release notes.