Database Center: Now with support for Bigtable, Firestore, and Memorystore

Google Cloud’s Database Center provides a unified fleet management solution to help manage your databases at scale. In October 2024, Database Center was made available to all Google Cloud customers, with support for Cloud SQL, AlloyDB and Spanner engines.

Today we are expanding Database Center’s capabilities with the addition of Bigtable, Memorystore, and Firestore databases in preview. You now have a single, unified view where you can: 

• Gain a comprehensive view of your entire database fleet across all Google Cloud managed databases. No more silos of information or hunting through bespoke tools and spreadsheets.

• Proactively de-risk your database fleet with intelligent and actionable availability and data protection recommendations for Bigtable and Firestore databases.

• Optimize your database fleet with AI-powered assistance using a natural language interface to answer questions about all your Google Cloud databases, and quickly resolve fleet issues through optimized recommendations.

Let’s take a deeper look at the new Database Center capabilities for Bigtable, Memorystore and FIrestore.

Gain a comprehensive view of your database fleet 

Database Center simplifies database management with a single, unified view of all your Google Cloud managed database services, including Bigtable, Memorystore and Firestore. You can monitor these database resources across your entire organization, spanning multiple engines, versions, regions, projects, and environments or applications using labels. Specifically, Database Center now lets you:

• Identify out-of-date database versions to ensure proper support and reliability 

• Track version upgrades, e.g., if Memorystore Redis 6.x to Memorystore Redis 7.0/ 7.2 is updating at an expected pace

• Ensure database resources are appropriately distributed, e.g., identify the number of Bigtable, Firestore, Memorystore databases powering the critical production applications vs. non-critical dev/test environments

Proactively de-risk your database fleet with intelligent recommendations

We’ve expanded Database Center’s proactive monitoring and issue-resolution capabilities to support Bigtable and Firestore, helping to ensure optimal availability and data protection for your existing database fleet. For instance, Database Center:

• Proactively monitors Bigtable instances, detecting and helping to resolve failover gaps to minimize downtime and prevent service disruption

• Publishes recommendations related to any unsuccessful backup attempts, no automated back-up policies and short back-up retention for your Bigtable instances. It's important to address these issues quickly to ensure data can be recovered.

• Enhances data availability and durability by protecting against system failures and regional outages for your Bigtable instances.

• Helps safeguard your critical data in Firestore by detecting if any tables lack an automated backup policy, so you can prevent data loss from accidents or corruption

In short, when issues arise, Database Center guides you through intuitive troubleshooting steps, streamlining resolution and minimizing downtime for your Bigtable and Firestore deployments. It goes beyond problem identification to provide clear, actionable solutions. Recommendations for Memorystore are coming to Database Center soon along with additional recommendations for other engines!

Optimize your database fleet with AI-powered assistance

With Gemini enabled, Database Center makes optimizing your database fleet incredibly intuitive. Chat with the AI-powered interface to get precise answers, uncover issues within your database fleet, troubleshoot problems, and implement solutions. AI-powered chat in the Database Center now includes support for Bigtable, Memorystore and Firestore. For example, Gemini can help you quickly identify Firestore resources that do not have automated back-up policies.

Get started with Database Center today

With today’s launch, Database Center now provides you a single, unified view across all your Google Cloud managed databases. You can access the Database Center within the Google Cloud console and begin monitoring and managing your entire database fleet. To learn more about Database Center’s capabilities, check out the documentation.