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September 23, 2024
Network Analyzer now includes additional information in the IP address utilization summary insights. In the case of Shared VPC, Network Analyzer gives a summary of the IP address utilization of all relevant subnet ranges of the host project, and also provides the insights of the service projects. For more information, see IP address utilization summary insights.
August 26, 2024
Network Analyzer now includes an insight indicating that the next hop IP address is not assigned to any forwarding rule in the relevant networks. This insight is already available in the Recommender API. For more information, see routes with an invalid next hop insight.
July 08, 2024
The GKE Enterprise view of Network Topology is generally available. Network Topology now shows the infrastructure of your GKE deployments - clusters, namespaces, workloads, and pods, and their associated metrics.
April 09, 2024
Flow Analyzer is now available in Preview.
Flow Analyzer lets you quickly and efficiently understand your VPC traffic flows without the need to write complex SQL queries for analyzing VPC Flow Logs.
March 30, 2024
General Availability: Network Topology provides dedicated views and insights of VMs and instance groups that generate higher egress is now . You can further filter the traffic based on the following traffic types: all egress, cross-zonal egress, egress to internet, and hybrid egress. For more information, see Network Topology overview.
March 04, 2024
Network Analyzer now includes an insight that gives a summary of the IP address utilization of all the Private Service Access ranges. This insight is also available in Recommender API. For more information, see PSA IP address utilization summary.
November 08, 2023
Connectivity Tests now supports verifying connectivity between two VPC networks connected by using Network Connectivity Center. For more information, see Create and run Connectivity Tests.
October 30, 2023
Network Analyzer now includes an insight that gives a summary of the Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) node service account. This insight is already available in the Recommender API. For more information, see GKE node service account insights.
October 04, 2023
Network Analyzer now includes an insight that gives a summary of the IP address utilization of all the subnet ranges. This insight is already available in Recommender API and Cloud Logging. For more information, see IP address utilization summary insights.
August 15, 2023
You can now view allow rules that are less likely to be active based on usage
patterns and adaptive analysis. For more information, see Allow rules that are obsolete based on adaptive analysis.
August 11, 2023
Network Topology now shows the infrastructure of your GKE deployments - clusters, namespaces, workloads, and pods, and their associated metrics.
July 18, 2023
Connectivity Tests now includes a feature that verifies connectivity from a VM to a Private Service Connect endpoint. For more information, see Create and run Connectivity Tests.
Connectivity Tests now includes a feature that verifies connectivity from a VM or an IP address to a load balancer. For more information, see Create and run Connectivity Tests.
May 18, 2023
Network Analyzer is now integrated with the Transparency and Control Center. Google Cloud users can now use this feature to opt out of analysis. For more information, see Opting out of data processing.
April 13, 2023
Network Analyzer now includes an insight that gives a summary of the IP address utilization of all the subnet ranges in the analyzed project. For more information, see IP address utilization summary insights.
March 27, 2023
Network Topology now supports TCP and UDP traffic for certain traffic paths. For more information, see Network Topology overview.
March 09, 2023
Network Topology now includes cross-project metrics for network traffic sent across Shared VPC or VPC Network Peering boundaries within the same organization. For more information, see Network Topology overview.
March 08, 2023
You can now see allow rules that are no longer active based on usage patterns and trends. For more information, see Allow rules with no hits based on trend analysis.
You can now see shadowed rule insights for hierarchical firewall policies and global network firewall policies in Firewall Insights. For more information, see Firewall Insights categories and states.
Network Topology now provides dedicated views and insights of VMs and instance groups that generate higher egress. For more information, see Network Topology overview.
February 17, 2023
Connectivity Tests now include dual-stack instances with both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, including instances with multiple network interfaces. For more information, see Create and run Connectivity Tests.
January 26, 2023
Connectivity Tests now includes a feature that verifies connectivity from a Cloud Run revision to a VM instance, an IP address, or a Google-managed service. For more information, see Create and run Connectivity Tests.
Connectivity Tests now includes a feature that verifies connectivity from an App Engine standard environment version to a VM instance, an IP address, or a Google-managed service. For more information, see Create and run Connectivity Tests.
January 10, 2023
You can now configure fine-grained permissions by using Identity and Access Management (IAM) to perform tasks in Network Topology. For more information, see Roles and permissions.
December 08, 2022
Performance Dashboard now shows latency metrics between VMs and Internet endpoints:
- In the Project performance view, Performance Dashboard shows latency between VMs across all Google Cloud regions and Internet endpoints.
- In the Google Cloud performance view, Performance Dashboard shows latency metrics for regions where you have VM instances and the Internet locations communicating with the VMs.
October 21, 2022
Connectivity Tests now includes a feature that verifies connectivity from a VM or an IP address to a Private Service Connect endpoint. For more information, see Create and run Connectivity Tests.
October 07, 2022
Network Analyzer is now Generally Available.
October 03, 2022
September 29, 2022
Connectivity Tests now includes a feature that verifies connectivity from a Cloud Function (1st gen) to a VM or public IP address. For more information, see Create and run Connectivity Tests.
August 08, 2022
Connectivity Tests now includes a feature that performs live data plane analysis by testing connectivity between a VM and a Google network edge location. This feature is available for the following traffic flows:
- Between VM and non-Google Cloud network
- Between VM and Cloud SQL instances
In the Google Cloud console, you can see the results of this analysis in the column labeled Last live data plane analysis result. In the gcloud command-line and API responses, you can see the results in the probingDetails object.
August 05, 2022
You can now schedule a custom cycle to refresh shadowed rule insights in Firewall Insights. For more information, see Schedule a custom refresh cycle.
Firewall Insights now identifies firewall misconfigurations for firewall rules which contain IPv6 IP address ranges. For more information, see Firewall Insights overview.
May 11, 2022
Network Analyzer is now available in Preview.
April 28, 2022
Connectivity to router appliances is now generally available in Network Topology. Google Cloud users can use Network Topology to audit their networking configuration and troubleshoot issues related to the router appliance instances.
April 19, 2022
You can set the observation period for overly permissive rule insights for a period of up to 12 months. For more information, see Configuring observation periods.
January 20, 2022
Overly permissive rule insights are now generally available. For information about these insights, see the Firewall Insights overview.
December 06, 2021
It is now possible to export Firewall Insights data in CSV format. For details, see Exporting insights.
October 28, 2021
Connectivity Tests now supports private IP addresses outside of the RFC 1918 address space. For more information, see Connectivity Tests overview.
September 20, 2021
Connectivity to Cloud VPN and Cloud Interconnect is now generally available in Network Topology. Google Cloud users can use Network Topology to audit their networking configuration and troubleshoot issues related to the hybrid connectivity to and from their on-premises networks.
September 09, 2021
Firewall Insights now provides comprehensive analysis of whether your firewall rules are overly permissive. Through overly permissive rule insights, which are now in public preview, Firewall Insights identifies rules and attributes that could be made more strict and secure.
Overly permissive rule insights include the following:
Allowrules with no hitsAllowrules with unused attributesAllowrules with overly permissive IP address or port ranges
Firewall Insights uses Firewall Rules Logging to identify these rules. It uses machine learning to predict future usage of overly permissive rules.
By default, the product analyzes the past six weeks when it identifies overly permissive rules. However, you can choose a different observation period.
For more information about overly permissive rule insights, see the Firewall Insights overview. For details about how to enable overly permissive rules, see Using Firewall Insights.
July 23, 2021
Connectivity Tests now includes a feature that verifies connectivity to and from Google-managed services, such as Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) control planes or Cloud SQL instances. The Connectivity Tests configuration analysis can now run a test and provide an overall reachability result for Google-managed services. For more information, see Connectivity Tests overview.
July 16, 2021
In the Google Cloud console, the trace panel for each Connectivity Test now includes links to VMs, firewall rules, and other resources that were analyzed as part of the test. Additionally, when you view the Result details panel, it now shows the source and destination IP address, the port that was used, and other information about the test. To see screenshots of the enhanced UI, visit Common Use Cases.
July 02, 2021
Connectivity to Google-managed services is now generally available in Network Topology. Google Cloud users can use Network Topology to audit their networking configuration and troubleshoot networking issues related to the different Google services in use.
June 17, 2021
The Connectivity Tests dynamic verification feature is now generally available. This feature uses active probing to verify connectivity between VMs. For more information, see How Connectivity Tests analyzes the live data plane.
June 14, 2021
Google Cloud performance view is generally available in Performance Dashboard.
April 19, 2021
Network Topology is Generally Available.
April 06, 2021
Connectivity Tests now evaluates hierarchical firewall policy rules as part of its configuration analysis. For more information, see Connectivity Tests overview.
March 11, 2021
Connectivity Tests now includes a feature that verifies connectivity by sending probes. This feature, which is in Preview, is available for VM-to-VM tests. In the Google Cloud console, you can see the results of this analysis in the column labeled Last packet transmission result. In the gcloud command-line and API responses, you can see the results in the probingDetails object. This feature complements the existing configuration analysis feature, which evaluates reachability by assessing your network's configuration.
January 15, 2021
The Network Topology graph now includes a checkbox, Show connections for child nodes only on focus, to display only the traffic paths between top-level entities, such as regions. When this checkbox is selected, you can still view the traffic paths between lower-level entities by selecting or holding the pointer over the lower-level entities.
November 20, 2020
Firewall Insights is available in General Availability.
September 21, 2020
Running Connectivity Tests to and from Google-managed services is available in Alpha. This release includes support for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster masters and Cloud SQL instances.
August 31, 2020
In the details pane for a connection, under View flows in BigQuery, Network Topology now provides a table that lists the subnets relevant to the currently selected connection and whether those subnets have VPC Flow Logs enabled. For more information, see Using generated queries to retrieve detailed logs.
July 30, 2020
Network Topology no longer supports infrastructure segments. This feature is deprecated and will be completely removed after 90 days. If you have any questions, see Getting support.
July 23, 2020
Network Topology includes two new metrics for connections between entities: packet loss and latency. Additionally, you can now use a drop-down menu to select which metric Network Topology overlays on traffic paths. For more information, see Viewing metrics for traffic between entities and Network Topology metrics reference.
July 01, 2020
Connectivity Tests now supports running tests from the Network interface details screen of a Compute Engine VM instance in the Google Cloud Console.
April 16, 2020
Performance Dashboard is now available in General Availability.
April 14, 2020
Firewall Insights is now in Beta.
March 29, 2020
Performance Dashboard is now available in Beta.
March 20, 2020
Connectivity Tests and the Network Management API are now Generally Available.
February 04, 2020
gcloud commands are now available in beta for Connectivity Tests.
January 29, 2020
The Network Management API for Connectivity Tests is in Beta.
November 13, 2019
Network Topology is in Beta.
Connectivity Tests is in Beta.