Enabling and Disabling Services

This page describes how to enable and disable services for a Google Cloud project. You can use Service Usage to enable or disable any available service for your projects, including public Google Cloud services and private services created using Cloud Endpoints. For more information on the differences between public and private APIs and services, see Public and Private Services.

For most operational use cases, the simplest way to enable and disable services is to use Google Cloud Console. If you need to create scripts, you can also use the gcloud command line interface. If you need to program against the Service Usage API, we recommend that you use one of our provided client libraries. To experiment with the API, you can follow the alternative instructions in this guide and use the curl command to test the API without setting up a full application development environment.

Before you begin

To enable and disable APIs and services you need:

• A Cloud project. To learn how to create a Cloud project, see Creating and Managing Projects.
• The correct Identity and Access Management permissions. To learn about the IAM requirements for Service Usage, see Access Control.
• If you want to run the gcloud command line examples in this guide, you need to install the Cloud SDK.
• If you want to use the curl examples in this guide, make sure you follow the instructions to complete the initial setup in Getting Started.

Enabling services

console

To enable an API for a project:

1. Go to the Cloud Console API Library page.
   go to the API Library page
2. Click Select to choose the Cloud project.
3. Click the API you want to enable. If you need help finding the API, use the search field.
4. Click Enable.

gcloud

Run the following command to enable the Pub/Sub API service in your current project:

gcloud services enable pubsub.googleapis.com

The command produces output similar to the following:

Waiting for async operation operations/acf.2e2fcfce-8327-4984-9040-a67777082687 to complete...
Operation finished successfully.

You can use the following command to get the operation details:

gcloud services operations describe operations/acf.2e2fcfce-8327-4984-9040-a67777082687

curl

You can enable a single service using the services.enable. You can enable between 2 and 20 services in a single operation using the services.batchEnable method.

The following command enables the Pub/Sub API service in project number 357084163378:

Note: You must substitute your project number in the following command.

gcurl -d '{}' https://serviceusage.googleapis.com/v1/projects/357084163378/services/pubsub.googleapis.com:enable

The services.enable method returns a Long Running Operation resource, which you can use to check the operation's status. You can poll for the operation status using the Service Usage operations.get method.

The following command enables both the Pub/Sub and Dataflow API services in project number 357084163378:

Note: You must substitute your project number in the following command.

gcurl -d '{
"serviceIds": ["pubsub.googleapis.com", "dataflow.googleapis.com"]
}' https://serviceusage.googleapis.com/v1/projects/357084163378/services:batchEnable

The services.batchEnable method returns a Long Running Operation resource, which you can use to check the operation's status. You can poll for the operation status using the Service Usage operations.get method.

Note: The process for enabling APIs can vary. Some APIs prompt you to accept their Terms of Service before you can enable them. Some APIs are in preview mode and require special signup and whitelisting before you can use them. Other APIs might ask for additional information, such as your organization's contact information and the name of the application you are developing. When more information is requested, it will not be shared outside of Google; it's used to help Google understand how the API is being used and as a secondary contact should we need to contact you regarding your use of the service.

Disabling services

You can disable an API for a project at any time, although any pending fees will still be charged to your account and you'll be charged for any billable API use in your projects. For more information, see APIs and Billing.

Note: In v1 of the API, if you attempt to disable a service that other enabled services depend on, the call will fail. The API call to disable the service will result in an error message. To disable the specified service and all of the services that depend on it, set the disable_dependent_services parameter on the services.disable request to true.

console

To disable an API for a project:

1. Go to the Cloud Console API Dashboard page.
   go to the API Dashboard page
2. Click Select to choose the Cloud project.
3. Next to the API you want to disable, click Disable.

gcloud

Run the following command to disable the Pub/Sub API service for your current project:

gcloud services disable pubsub.googleapis.com

The command produces output similar to the following:

Waiting for async operation operations/acf.e9d0943b-55d9-4ac0-8af4-745e1b8983f8 to complete...
Operation finished successfully.

You can use the following command to get the operation details:

gcloud services operations describe operations/acf.e9d0943b-55d9-4ac0-8af4-745e1b8983f8

curl

The following command disables the Pub/Sub API service in project number 357084163378:

Note: You must substitute your project number in the following command.

gcurl -d '{}' https://serviceusage.googleapis.com/v1/projects/357084163378/services/pubsub.googleapis.com:disable

The services.disable method returns a Long Running Operation resource, which you can use to check the operation's status. You can poll for the operation status using the Service Usage operations.get method.

Next steps

To learn how to view and manage the quota metrics and limits that apply to your project, see Managing Service Quota.