Capacity Planner release notes

This page documents production updates to Capacity Planner. Check this page for announcements about new or updated features, bug fixes, known issues, and deprecated functionality.

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March 28, 2024

Preview: Capacity planner supports the following for data aggregated by organization ID:

• View and export the actual and forecasted usage data of the VMs and persistent disks in your organization.

• Generate gcloud CLI commands to create future reservation requests based on the actual or forecasted usage data of your VMs by organization.

For more information, see the following pages:

• About Capacity Planner

• Export usage and forecast data in Capacity Planner

• Reserve capacity from actual or forecasted usage

• View actual and forecasted usage in Capacity Planner

December 15, 2023

Preview: When using Capacity Planner, you can enable quota adjuster for the Compute Engine resources in your project. This allows Google Cloud to automatically submit quota increase requests on your behalf when your quota nears a limit.

Enabling quota adjuster is helpful to proactively respond to planned or unplanned growths in consumption, or prevent outages when reaching a quota limit. For more information, see Enable quota adjuster.

Preview: You can view the following when using Capacity Planner:

• The historical or forecasted usage of your persistent disks.

• Your quota in relation to the usage of your Compute Engine resources.

Viewing your persistent disks' forecasted usage and your quota is useful when reserving resources or adjusting your quota limits for planned or unplanned spikes in consumption. For more information, see About Capacity Planner.

September 07, 2023

Preview: You can view the following when using Capacity Planner:

• The 50th and 75th percentile usage and forecast of your VMs.

• The historical usage of your VMs up to 2 years in the past.

• The usage and forecast of all machine families in a project.

For more information, see About Capacity Planner.

Preview: You can generate gcloud CLI commands to create future reservation requests of Compute Engine zonal resources based on the actual or forecasted usage of your VMs. Future reservations are useful to secure capacity up to 1 year in advance for forecasted spikes.

For more information, see Reserve capacity from actual or forecasted usage.