Capacity Planner release notes

Reference documentation has been added for the REST Capacity Planner API. For more information, see Authenticate to Capacity Planner and the REST API reference overview.

Preview: You can use capacity requests to request a large number of resources for a future date and time, and across multiple regions or zones. When you use capacity requests, you get best-effort assurance for the capacity that Google Cloud provisions, and you only pay for resources when you use them. This approach helps ensure that your Google Cloud project has sufficient capacity to prevent resource availability errors during unexpected growth, without committing to pay for resources that you might not use.

For more information, see About capacity requests.

Preview: You can view and export usage and forecast data of the machine types and TPUs in your project, folder, or organization. This information helps you analyze usage trends and plan for future capacity needs. For more information, see the following:

• Capacity Planner overview

• View usage and forecast data in Capacity Planner

• Export usage and forecast with the Google Cloud console

• Export usage and forecast with the Capacity Planner API

• Reserve capacity in Capacity Planner

Preview: You can create future reservation requests for VMs of a single machine type using the Google Cloud console. Reserving capacity based on your predicted VM or GPU usage helps ensure that your projects have the capacity needed to support increases in usage. For more information, see Reserve capacity in Capacity Planner.

Preview: You can view and export historical utilization of on-demand and future reservations in your project, folder, or organization. This data helps you analyze usage trends for your VMs or GPUs, as well as plan for future capacity needs. For more information, see the following:

• Export usage and forecast with the Google Cloud console

• Export usage and forecast with the Capacity Planner API

• View usage and forecast data in Capacity Planner

Preview: You can view the on-demand reservations and future reservation requests available for consumption in your project, folder, or organization. This helps you plan for future capacity assurance, as well as view the reserved resources that cover your projected growth or peak usage. For more information, see View usage and forecast data in Capacity Planner.

Preview: You can use the Capacity Planner API to export usage and forecast data of the VMs, Persistent Disk volumes, or GPUs in your project, folder, or organization. This lets you export usage and forecast data in a Cloud Storage bucket or BigQuery table. For more information, see Export usage and forecast data using the Capacity Planner API.

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

• View and export the actual and forecasted usage data of the VMs, Persistent Disk volumes, and GPUs in your folder.

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

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

Preview: Capacity Planner displays GPU usage and forecasts of the GPUs in your Google Cloud project or organization. This is useful to plan and optimize your GPU consumption.

For more information, see the following pages:

• About Capacity Planner

• Export usage and forecast data in Capacity Planner

• View actual and forecasted usage in Capacity Planner

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

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.

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.