How-to guides

General how-to guides

• Access control

  Set access control options for the Cloud Asset Inventory API.

• Configuring permissions

  Configure permissions for the Cloud Asset Inventory API.

• Listing assets

  View a paginated list of the assets at a given timestamp.

• Monitoring asset changes

  Monitor resource and policy changes by subscribing to real-time notifications.

• Viewing asset history

  View create, delete, and update events for assets over time.

• Viewing VM Manager data

  View the runtime information of your VMs

Analysis how-to guides

• Analyzing IAM policies

  Analyze IAM policies to find out who has access to what.

• Writing policy analysis to BigQuery

  Analyze IAM policies to determine asynchronously who has access to which resources, and then write the results to BigQuery tables.

• Writing policy analysis to Cloud Storage

  Analyze IAM policies to determine asynchronously who has access to which resources, and then write the results to a Cloud Storage bucket.

• Query samples

  Analyze IAM policy query samples

Export how-to guides

• Exporting to BigQuery

  Export asset metadata to a BigQuery table.

• Exporting to Cloud Storage

  Export asset metadata to a Cloud Storage bucket.

Search how-to guides

• Searching IAM policies

  Search Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies.

• Searching resources

  Search resource metadata.

• Query syntax

  Filter search results.