Configure and manage the 30-day introductory trial for Storage Intelligence

This page describes how to configure and disable the 30-day introductory trial for Storage Intelligence.

Configuring the 30-day introductory trial for Storage Intelligence activates the trial and creates a Storage Insights dataset configuration. For information about working with datasets, see Use Storage Insights datasets.

Required roles

The following table shows the required IAM roles and permissions for configuring the 30-day introductory trial for Storage Intelligence operations:

Roles required Permissions required

Ask your administrator to grant you any of the following IAM roles on either a project, a folder, or an organization within the Google Cloud Resource Hierarchy:

  • Owner (roles/owner)
  • Storage Admin (roles/storage.admin)
 storage.intelligenceConfigs.update

Ask your administrator to grant you the following IAM role on your source project:

  • Storage Insights Admin (roles/storageinsights.admin)
 storageinsights.datasetConfigs.create

You can also get these permissions with custom roles. To see which roles are associated with which permissions, refer to IAM roles for Cloud Storage.

To grant, change, or revoke access to projects, folders, and organizations, see Manage access to projects, folders, and organizations.

Configure the 30-day introductory trial for Storage Intelligence

Console

  1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the Storage Intelligence Configuration page.

    Go to Configuration

  2. Click Start 30-day introductory trial.

  3. In the Configure Storage Intelligence 30-day introductory trial dialog, select the resource where you want to enable the Storage Intelligence 30-day introductory trial.

  4. Click Continue, and then complete the steps in the following sections.

Configure the trial settings

On the Storage Intelligence trial configuration page, do the following:

  1. Optional: To include or exclude specific buckets in your Storage Intelligence configuration, click the expander arrow to expand the Apply trial only to certain buckets section, and then do the following:

    1. To filter buckets by location, do the following:

      1. To either include or exclude buckets, use the Select filter type menu.

      2. Select the location from the location menu.

    2. To filter buckets by name, do the following:

      1. To either include or exclude buckets, use the Select filter type menu.

      2. In the Regular expression 1 field, enter the regular expression.

      3. Optionally, to add multiple regular expressions, click + Add regular expression.

  2. In the Name your dataset field, enter a name for your dataset. For naming guidelines, see Dataset configuration properties.

  3. In the Specify project to store dataset field, click Browse, and then select the project where you want to store your dataset.

  4. Click Next.

Complete the configuration

To complete the configuration, do the following:

  1. To enable the Storage Insights API, click Next.
  2. To select the BigQuery location to store the configured dataset, use the Select the BigQuery location to store the configured dataset drop-down menu.
  3. Click Next.
  4. To grant IAM role to service agent, click Next.
  5. Click Enable trial.

Command line

  1. In the Google Cloud console, activate Cloud Shell.

    Activate Cloud Shell

    At the bottom of the Google Cloud console, a Cloud Shell session starts and displays a command-line prompt. Cloud Shell is a shell environment with the Google Cloud CLI already installed and with values already set for your current project. It can take a few seconds for the session to initialize.

  2. To configure the 30-day introductory trial for Storage Intelligence, run the gcloud alpha storage intelligence-configs enable --trial-edition command:

    gcloud alpha storage intelligence-configs enable RESOURCE_FLAG --trial-edition

    Where:

    RESOURCE_FLAG is one of the following flags, depending on the resource for which you are configuring the Storage Intelligence 30-day introductory trial:

    • --project=PROJECT_ID: Where PROJECT_ID is a project ID. For example, my-project.

    • --sub-folder=FOLDER_ID: Where FOLDER_ID is a folder ID. For example, 1234567890.

    • --organization=ORGANIZATION_ID: Where ORGANIZATION_ID is an organization ID. For example, 9876546738.

    For example, the following command configures the Storage Intelligence 30-day introductory trial for a project called my-project:

    gcloud alpha storage intelligence-configs enable --project=my-project --trial-edition

    For a complete list of settings to configure the Storage Intelligence 30-day introductory trial, see Storage Intelligence configuration settings.

REST APIs

JSON API

To configure the Storage Intelligence 30-day introductory trial, see Configure Storage Intelligence.

Disable the 30-day introductory trial for Storage Intelligence

You can disable the 30-day introductory trial for Storage Intelligence at any time during the 30-day period. For instructions, see Disable Storage Intelligence.

End of the 30-day introductory trial

After the 30-day introductory trial period ends, Storage Intelligence automatically upgrades to the STANDARD edition. Following the automatic upgrade to the STANDARD edition, you can continue using all the Storage Intelligence features. For detailed information about pricing of the STANDARD edition, see Storage Intelligence pricing.

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