Database Center release notes

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Database Center is generally available (GA). Database Center is an AI-assisted dashboard that gives you a centralized view across your database fleet. You can view database fleet health issues and recommendations, and you can ask questions about database fleet health issues, including availability configuration, data protection, security, and industry compliance. For more information, see Database Center overview.

Additional supported health issues are available in Database Center. Database Center detects health issues in multiple database products to help you maintain and troubleshoot your database fleet. For more information, see Supported health issues in the Database Center documentation.

You can view incidents and alerting policies in Database Center. Use incidents to be notified when a metric specific to a resource is more or less than a threshold value. Use an alerting policy to create incidents to help you monitor your database fleet resources. For more information, see Monitor your database fleet with alerting policies.

You can create a customized dashboard view that shows only the health issues in your database fleet that you want to see. A dashboard view can be for only you, or it can be shared with other users who have access to your Google Cloud project. For more information, see Create customized dashboard views.

Database Center is integrated with VPC Service Controls to secure data and resources. Use VPC Service Controls to create service perimeters that protect the resources in your database fleet and data of services that you explicitly specify. For more information, see Configure VPC Service Controls.

When you enable Gemini, the following performance recommendations and insights are available in Database Center:

• Inefficient query/index advisor for Cloud SQL
• Analyze option for high resource utilization health recommendation for Cloud SQL and AlloyDB.

For more information, see Supported health issues.

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.