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This page documents production updates to Recommender. Check this page for
announcements about new or updated features, bug fixes, known issues, and
deprecated functionality.
You can see the latest product updates for all of Google Cloud on the
Google Cloud page, browse and filter all release notes in the
Google Cloud console,
or programmatically access release notes in
BigQuery.
March 08, 2024
v1beta1
Recommendation Hub is a centralized page on Google Cloud that helps you view all of your recommendations in one place. We recently made improvements to the page, including enabling organization and folder-view of recommendations, custom sorting and filtering of recommendations, and more. For more information, see documentation
New Service limit (quota) recommender is now available in Preview. The recommendations help you identify resources that may be approaching their quota limits.
April 14, 2023
v1
Recommendations can now be exported to non-US regions.
Recommender pricing is now generally available and determines how you can process and view recommendations using the API and BigQuery export.
The pricing controls how much read and write quota is provided to individual resources.
February 26, 2021
v1beta1
The product suggestion recommender helps you to optimize your Cloud usage by providing you with product suggestions. This can help you improve performance and security, and manage your resources better.
December 09, 2020
v1
The committed use discount (CUD) recommender helps you to optimize the resource costs of your Compute Engine virtual machine instances. The CUD recommendations are now generally available.
November 20, 2020
v1
Firewall Insights enable you to better understand and safely optimize your firewall configurations. These insights are now generally available and you can learn more about how to use these insights here.
November 08, 2020
v1
Compute Engine now enables you to view and apply recommendations associated with idle resources such as disk images and IP addresses. This helps to minimize the wastage of resources and reduce the Compute bill.
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Check this page for announcements about new or updated features, bug fixes, known issues, and deprecated functionality.\nYou can see the latest product updates for all of Google Cloud on the\n[Google Cloud](/release-notes) page, browse and filter all release notes in the\n[Google Cloud console](https://console.cloud.google.com/release-notes),\nor programmatically access release notes in\n[BigQuery](https://console.cloud.google.com/bigquery?p=bigquery-public-data&d=google_cloud_release_notes&t=release_notes&page=table).\n\nMarch 08, 2024\n--------------\n\nv1beta1 \n[Recommendation Hub](https://console.cloud.google.com/home/recommendations) is a centralized page on Google Cloud that helps you view all of your recommendations in one place. We recently made improvements to the page, including enabling organization and folder-view of recommendations, custom sorting and filtering of recommendations, and more. For more information, see [documentation](https://cloud.google.com/recommender/docs/quickstart-recommendation-hub)\n\nDecember 06, 2023\n-----------------\n\nv1 \n[Service limit (quota) recommender](https://cloud.google.com/recommender/docs/service-limit-quota-recommender) is now generally available. \n[Change risk recommendations](https://cloud.google.com/recommender/docs/change-risk-recommendations) are now available in Preview. These recommendations help you reduce the risk of cloud infrastructure misconfigurations.\n\nMay 25, 2023\n------------\n\nv1 \nYou can now [configure the observation period for your idle VM Recommender](https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/configuring-idle-vm-recommendations). \nThe [BigQuery partitioning and clustering recommender](https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/view-partition-cluster-recommendations) is now in [Preview](https://cloud.google.com/products#product-launch-stages). The recommender analyzes your BigQuery tables to identify partitioning or clustering opportunities for potential cost savings.\n\nApril 20, 2023\n--------------\n\nv1 \nNew [Service limit (quota) recommender](https://cloud.google.com/recommender/docs/service-limit-quota-recommender) is now available in Preview. The recommendations help you identify resources that may be approaching their quota limits.\n\nApril 14, 2023\n--------------\n\nv1 \nRecommendations can now be [exported](https://cloud.google.com/recommender/docs/bq-export/export-recommendations-to-bq) to non-US regions.\n\nMarch 23, 2023\n--------------\n\nv1 \n[The ability to dismiss a recommendation is generally available](https://cloud.google.com/recommender/docs/using-api) via Recommender API \n[The export to BigQuery feature](https://cloud.google.com/recommender/docs/bq-export/export-recommendations-to-bq) now supports custom pricing and non-project scoped recommendations. \nThe global [Recommender Viewer role](https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/understanding-roles#recommender.viewer) is now available to get view access to all insights and recommendations available.\n\nMarch 10, 2023\n--------------\n\nv1 \nCloud Functions [minimum instances recommendations](https://cloud.google.com/functions/docs/configuring/recommender) are now available in [Preview](https://cloud.google.com/products#product-launch-stages).\n\nApril 28, 2022\n--------------\n\nv1 \n**Preview** : The Error Reporting [notification recommender](https://cloud.google.com/recommender/docs/error-reporting/notification-recommender) looks for\nrecent crashes in your Cloud project and provides recommendations if you\nhave not configured [Error Reporting notifications](https://cloud.google.com/error-reporting/docs/notifications).\n\nMarch 25, 2021\n--------------\n\nv1 \nRecommender [pricing](https://cloud.google.com/recommender/pricing) is now generally available and determines how you can process and view recommendations using the API and BigQuery export.\nThe pricing controls how much read and write [quota](https://cloud.google.com/recommender/quotas) is provided to individual resources.\n\nFebruary 26, 2021\n-----------------\n\nv1beta1 \nThe [product suggestion recommender](https://cloud.google.com/recommender/docs/product-suggestion-recommender) helps you to optimize your Cloud usage by providing you with product suggestions. This can help you improve performance and security, and manage your resources better.\n\nDecember 09, 2020\n-----------------\n\nv1 \nThe [committed use discount](https://cloud.google.com/recommender/docs/committed-use-discount-recommender) (CUD) recommender helps you to optimize the resource costs of your Compute Engine virtual machine instances. The CUD recommendations are now generally available.\n\nNovember 20, 2020\n-----------------\n\nv1 \nFirewall Insights enable you to better understand and safely optimize your firewall configurations. These insights are now generally available and you can learn more about how to use these insights [here](https://cloud.google.com/network-intelligence-center/docs/firewall-insights/how-to/using-firewall-insights).\n\nNovember 08, 2020\n-----------------\n\nv1 \nCompute Engine now enables you to [view and apply recommendations](https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/viewing-and-applying-idle-resources-recommendations) associated with idle resources such as disk images and IP addresses. This helps to minimize the wastage of resources and reduce the Compute bill.\n\nJuly 27, 2020\n-------------\n\nv1 \nYou can now [opt out of recommendations](https://cloud.google.com/recommender/docs/opting-out) for a specific billing account.\n\nJuly 16, 2020\n-------------\n\nv1 \nYou can use [insights](https://cloud.google.com/recommender/docs/insights/using-insights) to focus on important patterns in resource usage. Insights are now generally available.\n\nMay 26, 2020\n------------\n\nv1 \nYou can now view, prioritize, and apply recommendations in the Google Cloud Console using Recommendation Hub ([Beta](https://cloud.google.com/products/#product-launch-stages)).\n\n[Get started with Recommendation Hub](https://cloud.google.com/recommender/docs/recommendation-hub/getting-started).\n\nMay 11, 2020\n------------\n\nv1 \nThe [Transparency and Control Center](https://cloud.google.com/recommender/docs/transparency-and-control-center/audit-logging) helps an administrator download processed data to view insights and recommendations.\n\nMarch 30, 2020\n--------------\n\nv1beta1 \nInsights is now available in beta. See the [documentation](https://cloud.google.com/recommender/docs/insights/using-insights) for details.\n\nJanuary 21, 2020\n----------------\n\nv1 \nRecommender API is now generally available.\n\nSeptember 23, 2019\n------------------\n\nv1beta1 \nRecommender API is now available in Beta."]]