Gemini Cloud Assist overview

Gemini Cloud Assist, a key product of the Gemini for Google Cloud portfolio, simplifies the application lifecycle in Google Cloud. Gemini Cloud Assist offers AI-powered assistance to help you design, deploy, troubleshoot, and optimize apps that are tailored to help you reach your efficiency, cost, reliability, and security goals.

Learn how and when Gemini for Google Cloud uses your data. As an early-stage technology, Gemini for Google Cloud products can generate output that seems plausible but is factually incorrect. We recommend that you validate all output from Gemini for Google Cloud products before you use it. For more information, see Gemini for Google Cloud and responsible AI.

AI assistance with Gemini Cloud Assist

Gemini Cloud Assist provides AI assistance in the following ways:

  • Summarize your Cloud Asset Inventory. Using natural language, you can interact with Cloud Asset Inventory to efficiently retrieve contextual information about resources deployed on Google Cloud. Responses can contain the following:

    • Clear summarized answers and instructions.
    • A link to the Asset query page in Cloud Asset Inventory, where you can validate generated SQL.
    • A link to the Cloud Asset Inventory public documentation.

  • Monitor and improve the health of your resources. If you use Cloud Monitoring, you can interact with Cloud Monitoring data by using natural language to understand your cloud resources and metrics. This information can help you understand the health of your workloads, understand performance trends, and troubleshoot production issues. Responses can contain a summary of results, visualizations that help you interpret the data, and actions to further explore data using the metric explorer.

  • Optimize your resource costs, security, and performance. If you use Active Assist, you can interact with your Active Assist recommendations data by using natural language to quickly get optimization opportunities, such as for cost, security, and performance. Responses can contain a summary of results, top recommendations, and actions to learn more.

Supported data sources

The following table lists supported data sources and APIs that Gemini Cloud Assist uses:

Data source Purpose Prompt example Response example
Cloud Asset Inventory API Summarize Google Cloud resources based on metadata and configurations. "List the name and network name for the subnetworks." Provides an explanation that includes the total number of subnetworks, a list of those subnetworks, and a link to the asset query within Cloud Asset Inventory to view the full results.
Monitoring API Summarize Google Cloud resources based on some associated Google Cloud metrics criteria.

Report Google Cloud metrics for selected resources.

"Which of my VMs have the highest utilization?" Offers visibility into the performance, availability, and health of your applications and infrastructure.
Recommender API Show recommendations for a project. "What are my cost recommendations?" Provides specific recommendations for estimated savings.

Where to interact with Gemini Cloud Assist

The following sections describe where to interact with Gemini Cloud Assist.

Cloud Assist pane

The Cloud Assist pane is a conversational assistant that's available in the Google Cloud console and the Cloud Mobile App. It lets you write natural language statements or questions (called prompts) to get in-depth explanations, suggested actions, or guided workflows that help you complete tasks quickly and efficiently without needing to be a cloud expert.

Google Cloud console quick prompts

Various buttons and interactive elements are available in the Google Cloud console and Cloud Mobile App.

Set up Gemini Cloud Assist

For detailed setup steps, see Set up Gemini Cloud Assist.

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