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 |
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 Identity recommender | google.run.service.IdentityRecommender |
Restrict service accounts | |
| 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 | |
| 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 |