Recommenders

A recommender is a service on Google Cloud that provides usage recommendations for Google Cloud resources. Recommenders are specific to a single Google Cloud product and resource type. A single product can have multiple recommenders, where each provides a different type of recommendation for a different resource.

Recommender has the following recommenders:

Value Category	Name	Recommender ID	Short Description
Cost	BigQuery slot recommender	google.bigquery.capacityCommitments.Recommender	Optimize BigQuery spend with slot reservations
	Cloud SQL idle instance recommender	google.cloudsql.instance.IdleRecommender	Remove unused SQL instances
	Cloud SQL overprovisioned instance recommender	google.cloudsql.instance.OverprovisionedRecommender	Resize overprovisioned SQL instances
	Committed use discount recommender	google.compute.commitment.UsageCommitmentRecommender google.cloudbilling.commitment.SpendBasedCommitmentRecommender	Reduce costs thru commitments
	Idle custom image recommender	google.compute.image.IdleResourceRecommender	Remove unused images
	Idle IP address recommender	google.compute.address.IdleResourceRecommender	Remove unused IPs
	Idle persistent disk recommender	google.compute.disk.IdleResourceRecommender	Backup and remove unused disks
	Idle VM recommender	google.compute.instance.IdleResourceRecommender	Remove unused VMs
Security	Account security recommender	google.accounts.security.SecurityKeyRecommender	Protect your account
	IAM recommender	google.iam.policy.Recommender	Remove excess permissions
	Google Maps Platform project management recommender	google.gmp.project.ManagementRecommender	Restrict your API keys
	Cloud Run Service Security recommenders	google.run.service.IdentityRecommender google.run.service.SecurityRecommender	Increase Cloud Run Service security
Performance	Cloud SQL out-of-disk recommender	google.cloudsql.instance.OutOfDiskRecommender	Prevent CloudSQL out-of-disk outage
	Managed instance group machine type recommender	google.compute.instanceGroupManager.MachineTypeRecommender	Resize MIG machine types
	VM machine type recommender	google.compute.instance.MachineTypeRecommender	Resize VM machine types
	Cloud Functions minimum instances recommender	google.cloudfunctions.PerformanceRecommender	Prevent cold starts for deployed functions
	Cloud SQL performance recommender MySQL high number of open tables MySQL high number of open tables PostgreSQL high transanction id utilization	google.cloudsql.instance.PerformanceRecommender	Improve Cloud SQL instance performance MySQL: increase the table open cache size MySQL: manage high number of tables PostgreSQL: prevent transaction ID wraparound
	Cloud SQL underprovisioned recommender	google.cloudsql.instance.UnderprovisionedRecommender	Optimize underprovisioned Cloud SQL instances
Reliability	GKE diagnosis recommender	google.container.DiagnosisRecommender	Mitigate exposure to upcoming Kubernetes deprecations
	Service limit (quota) recommender	google.resourcemanager.serviceLimit.Recommender	Manage service and quota usage to avoid hitting limits
Manageability	Error Reporting notification recommender	google.clouderrorreporting.Recommender	Receive notifications for errors in your project
	Product suggestion recommender	google.logging.productSuggestion.ContainerRecommender	Explore more helpful products
Sustainability	Unattended project recommender	google.resourcemanager.projectUtilization.Recommender	Reclaim or remove unused projects