Quickstart: Find and apply recommendations in context

Learn how to find and applyrecommendations fromrecommenders that support viewing and managing recommendationsin context(that is, using a service's user interface in the Google Cloud console). For detailsabout recommenders and supported clients, seeRecommenders.

Before you begin

For this quickstart, you need a Google Cloud project with a virtual machine running on Compute Engine.

1. Go to the Google Cloud console.

2. Select your Google Cloud project. If you don't have a Google Cloud project, create a new project.

3. Ensure you have sufficient Identity and Access Management (IAM) permissions to view the project's recommendations. If you don have sufficient permission, you might not be able to view some recommendations in detail. Refer to theIAM guide for more information.

Note: If you're starting with a new project, you may not see any recommendations. You might use the concepts taught in this quickstart for other recommendations in the future as well.

Find VM resource recommendations in context

In this guide, we will use Compute Engine to find recommendations to reduce VM resource costs. Use the next section to find a full list of products with recommendations available in context.

1. Navigate to the VM Instances dashboard in Compute Engine.

   Go to VM Instances

2. Find the recommendation column under the Recommendation header in the table.

Note: You might not have any recommendations in this table. If you don't see anyrecommendations, check theActive Assistdocumentation to see what other products you might have recommendations for orwhether the recommender supports another client such asActive Assist or the Recommender API.

Apply recommendations

This process might look different for some recommendations, which require you to visit product pages and make the changes there. However, the process is largely the same and can be applied to most recommendations.

1. Click a recommendation in the Recommendation column in the table to open the detail panel.

2. In the detail panel, click apply.

Warning:

Before applying recommendations in the Google Cloud console orusing the API, ensure that impacts are assessed by a reviewer within your organization.The reviewer should have the knowledge to assess impacts identified inrecommendations, as well as impacts specific to your infrastructure andbusiness. Applying recommendations without proper assessment could result inunexpected changes, such as issues with system performance, poor reliability, orloss of required permissions. If you choose to apply recommendations withouthuman review, ensure that you have set up a rollback process before making anychanges.

Other ways to apply recommendations

You can also use the Active Assist to find a centralized collection of recommendations available to you.

• Finding and applying recommendations in the Active Assist

You can also batch process recommendations using the Google Cloud CLI or REST API. To learn more, refer to the following guide:

• Using the API - Recommendations

What's next

• Finding and applying recommendations in the Active Assist
• Enabling the API
• Using the API
• Export recommendations to BigQuery