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Quotas and limits
This page provides details on the limits that apply to using
Cloud Profiler.
Profiler API quotas and limits
The Profiler API quotas place limits on the number of API
requests that the Profiler backend can support for a specific
Google Cloud project. The quotas include limits on the following:
An update request is issued each time a deployment collects a
profile type.
Deployments that collect two profile types issue twice as many update
requests as deployments that collect one profile type.
Number of update requests per day.
Number of list-profiles requests per day.
A list-profiles request can be issued to retrieve the profiles for your
existing deployments.
If you exceed a quota, the Profiler backend rejects the API
request. For example, assume that the quota for the number of new deployments
per day is 75. If 80 new deployments are created in one day, then no profiling
data is collected for 5 of the deployments.
As a second example, assume that you have 10 deployments for a service that
collects Heap and Wall time profiling. In this case, the quota for the number
of update requests per minute must be at least 20:
10 deployments x 2 profile types per deployment x 1 update request per profile type per minute
= 20 update requests per minute (on average)
If this quota is less than 20, then some profiles aren't transmitted
successfully to the Profiler backend.
Managing your quota
You can view, decrease, and increase your Profiler
API quota. For more information about quotas, see the Cloud Quotas documentation:
To view your Profiler API quota and current usage, from the
Google Cloud console, go to Quotas:
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