GCP – Simplify database fleet management with AI-powered Database Center, now GA
At Google Cloud Next 25, we announced the general availability of Database Center, an AI-powered unified fleet management solution that simplifies all aspects of database fleet management including monitoring, optimization, and security.
Database Center replaces fragmented tools, complex scripts, APIs, and other error-prone workflows that companies use to monitor their database fleets, delivering an integrated experience that uses Google’s foundation AI models for an intuitive chat interface and to make intelligent recommendations.
In a previous post, we described how Database Center is designed to bring order to the chaos of your database fleet, and unlock the true potential of your data. Its single, intuitive interface lets you:
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Gain a comprehensive view of your entire database fleet. No more silos of information or hunting through bespoke tools and spreadsheets.
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Proactively de-risk your fleet with intelligent performance, reliability, cost, compliance and security recommendations.
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Optimize your database fleet with AI-powered assistance. Use a natural-language chat interface to ask questions and quickly resolve fleet issues and get optimization recommendations
Single pane of glass, recent issues and custom views
What’s new in Database Center
With general availability, Database Center now provides enhanced performance and health monitoring for all Google Cloud databases, including Cloud SQL, AlloyDB, Spanner, Bigtable, Memorystore, and Firestore. It delivers richer metrics and actionable recommendations, helps you to optimize database performance and reliability, and customize your experience. Database Center leverages Gemini to deliver assistive performance troubleshooting experience. Finally, you can track the weekly progress of your database inventory and health issues.
Here’s a detailed list of new features included in Database Center GA release:
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Gemini assisted performance troubleshooting:
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Inefficient query/index advisor for Cloud SQL
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Analyze option for high resource utilization for Cloud SQL and AlloyDB
Enhanced recommendations across Bigtable, Spanner, MemoryStore, Firestore and Cloud SQL. List of new recommendations:
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Spanner – Deletion protection not enabled, No automated backup policy, Last backup older than 24hrs
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Bigtable – Hotspot detected, High resource utilization, Nearing or at storage capacity, Deletion protection not enabled, Suspended resource
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Memorystore – High resource utilization, Expensive command, Maintenance policy not set
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Firestore – PITR not enabled, No automated back-up policy
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Cloud SQL – No user password policy, Inefficient queries
Savable views: Let users create, save and share custom Database Center views for specific personas.
Historical data: Enable users to track new database resources generated and issues occurred in the last week.
Alerting: Access a centralized interface to view all database altering policies and incidents.
Assistive experience to detect and analyse performance issues
What Database Center customers are saying
Customers who used the Database Center preview saw significant value in the unified fleet management solution.
“As we continue to accelerate digital transformations, our databases must meet the pace of our development and the growing complexity of database environments that power business applications. We manage thousands of databases across hundreds of projects that are critical for Ford. Database Center has given us unparalleled insight into our database landscape. The robust monitoring and observability tools have allowed us to proactively identify and address potential issues before they impact our users. Now, we can get answers on fleet health in seconds and proactively mitigate risks to our applications more swiftly than before.” – Bogdan Capatina, Technical Expert in Database Technologies, Ford Motor Company.
“Database Center offers a comprehensive overview of the entire database landscape and serves as a central hub for navigating and taking action on any database within TELUS.” – Kurt Harsft, Manager Information Services, Telus
“Database Center perfectly aligns with our vision of database observability — delivering a single, unified view just like we monitor our on-prem databases. It simplifies management, strengthens security compliance, and sets the standard for how database oversight should be: seamless and comprehensive.” – Sangeeth Talluri, Senior Principal Architect, Home Depot
“The ability to effortlessly access comprehensive infrastructure health, security, compliance, alerts, and data protection across the entire fleet through the Database Center is truly a game-changer, providing exceptional value and peace of mind.” – Rahul Jain, Engineering Manager, UKG
How you can access Database Center
Database Center is accessible from Google Cloud managed database services console: Cloud SQL, AlloyDB, Spanner and Bigtable. Database Center is enabled by default for users with the necessary IAM permissions at the desired hierarchy.
Google Cloud customers do not have to pay anything additional to use Database Center. Certain premium features, including those that are Gemini-backed, like few performance recommenders, cost recommenders and natural language chat require customers to enable Gemini Cloud Assist. Advanced security and compliance monitoring requires a Google Security Command Central (SCC) subscription.
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