INFORMATION_SCHEMA.INSIGHTS view
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The INFORMATION_SCHEMA.INSIGHTS
view contains insights about all BigQuery
recommendations in the current project. BigQuery retrieves
insights for all BigQuery insight types from the Recommendation Hub
and present it in this view. BigQuery insights are always
associated with a recommendation.
The INFORMATION_SCHEMA.INSIGHTS
view supports the following
recommendations:
- Partition and cluster recommendations
- Materialized view recommendations
- Role recommendations for BigQuery datasets
Required permission
To view insights with the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.INSIGHTS
view, you
must have the required permissions for the corresponding recommender. The
INFORMATION_SCHEMA.INSIGHTS
view only returns insights from recommendations
that you have permission to view.
Ask your administrator to grant access to view insights. To see the required permissions for each recommender, see the following:
- Partition & cluster recommender permissions
- Materialized view recommendations permissions
- Role recommendations for datasets permissions
Schema
The INFORMATION_SCHEMA.INSIGHTS
view has the following
schema:
Column name | Data type | Value |
---|---|---|
insight_id |
STRING |
Base64 encoded ID that contains the insight type and insight ID |
insight_type |
STRING |
The type of the Insight. For example, google.bigquery.materializedview.Insight . |
subtype |
STRING |
The subtype of the insight. |
project_id |
STRING |
The ID of the project. |
project_number |
STRING |
The number of the project. |
description |
STRING |
The description about the recommendation. |
last_updated_time |
TIMESTAMP |
This field represents the time when the insight was last refreshed. |
category |
STRING |
The optimization category of the impact. |
target_resources |
STRING |
Fully qualified resource names this insight is targeting. |
state |
STRING |
The state of the insight. For a list of possible values, see Value. |
severity |
STRING |
The severity of the Insight. For a list of possible values, see Severity. |
associated_recommendation_ids |
STRING |
Full recommendation names this insight is associated with. Recommendation name is the Base64 encoded representation of recommender type and the recommendations ID. |
additional_details |
RECORD |
Additional details about the insight.
|
Scope and syntax
Queries against this view must include a region qualifier. A project ID is optional. If no project ID is specified, the project that the query runs in is used.
View name | Resource scope | Region scope |
---|---|---|
[PROJECT_ID.]`region-REGION`.INFORMATION_SCHEMA.INSIGHTS[_BY_PROJECT] |
Project level | REGION |
- Optional:
PROJECT_ID
: the ID of your Google Cloud project. If not specified, the default project is used.
REGION
: any dataset region name. For example,`region-us`
.
Example
To run the query against a project other than your default project, add the project ID in the following format:
`PROJECT_ID`.`region-REGION_NAME`.INFORMATION_SCHEMA.INSIGHTS
PROJECT_ID
: the ID of the project.REGION_NAME
: the region for your project.
For example, `myproject`.`region-us`.INFORMATION_SCHEMA.INSIGHTS
.
View active insights with cost savings
The following example joins insights view with the recommendations view to return 3 recommendations for the insights that are ACTIVE in COST category:
WITH
insights as (SELECT * FROM `region-us`.INFORMATION_SCHEMA.INSIGHTS),
recs as (SELECT recommender, recommendation_id, additional_details FROM `region-us`.INFORMATION_SCHEMA.RECOMMENDATIONS)
SELECT
recommender,
target_resources,
LAX_INT64(recs.additional_details.overview.bytesSavedMonthly) / POW(1024, 3) as est_gb_saved_monthly,
LAX_INT64(recs.additional_details.overview.slotMsSavedMonthly) / (1000 * 3600) as slot_hours_saved_monthly,
insights.additional_details.observation_period_seconds / 86400 as observation_period_days,
last_updated_time
FROM
insights
JOIN recs
ON
recommendation_id in UNNEST(associated_recommendation_ids)
WHERE
state = 'ACTIVE'
AND
category = 'COST'
LIMIT 3;
The result is similar to the following:
+---------------------------------------------------+---------------------+--------------------+--------------------------+-------------------------+---------------------+ | recommender | target_resource | gb_saved_monthly | slot_hours_saved_monthly | observation_period_days | last_updated_time | +---------------------------------------------------+---------------------+--------------------+--------------------------+-------------------------+---------------------+ | google.bigquery.table.PartitionClusterRecommender | ["table_resource1"] | 3934.07264107652 | 10.499466666666667 | 30.0 | 2024-07-01 16:41:25 | | google.bigquery.table.PartitionClusterRecommender | ["table_resource2"] | 4393.7416711859405 | 56.61476777777777 | 30.0 | 2024-07-01 16:41:25 | | google.bigquery.materializedview.Recommender | ["project_resource"]| 140805.38289248943 | 9613.139166666666 | 2.0 | 2024-07-01 13:00:31 | +---------------------------------------------------+---------------------+--------------------+--------------------------+-------------------------+---------------------+