Product suggestion recommender

The product suggestion recommender helps you to optimize your Cloud usage by providing you with product suggestions. This can help you improve performance and security, and manage your resources better. Based on best practices, it analyzes your current product usage within each project and determines any additional products that might optimize your usage. If the recommender identifies an opportunity to leverage a product within a project, a recommendation is generated for that project in the Recommendation Hub. All users who have the appropriate permissions can view the recommendations when logged in to the hub. Every product suggestion includes information about the recommendation, details on the product, and links to help you get started with the product.

Here are one example for a product suggestion recommendation:

• A cloud logging suggestion for your Google Kubernetes Engine resources.

Recommender ID

The product suggestion recommender ID is:

• google.logging.productSuggestion.ContainerRecommender

Note: These recommendations are currently available only through the Recommendation Hub.

Permissions

Required IAM permissions

To access the list of product suggestion recommendations and insights, the following permissions are required:

• recommender.loggingProductSuggestionContainerRecommendations.list
• recommender.loggingProductSuggestionContainerRecommendations.get

To update the list of product suggestion recommendations and insights, the following permission is required:

• recommender.loggingProductSuggestionContainerRecommendations.update

Note: Granting your users these permissions might give them a partial view of the resource for which the recommendation is generated. For more information, see the Recommender Overview.

Granting permissions

To grant the required IAM permissions, assign one of the following roles:

• To access the list of recommendations, assign the Recommender Viewer (roles/recommender.productSuggestionViewer) role.
• To update the list of recommendations, assign the Recommender Admin (roles/recommender.productSuggestionAdmin) role.

For more information, see how you can grant IAM permissions.

Examples

Viewing product suggestion recommendations

Recommendations are available through the Recommendation Hub. The following steps show how to list product suggestion recommendations:

1. Sign in to Google Cloud console.

   Sign in to Google Cloud console

2. From the Home screen, click the Recommendations tab.

3. In the Cloud Logging card, click View all to view the list of product suggestion recommendations. If you can't find the card, then you either don't have the permission to view the recommendations, or there aren't any recommendations for the current project.

4. On the following screen, click each recommendation to view its details.