Find recommendations with Active Assist

This page shows you how to use Active Assist to find and applyrecommendations from recommenders that supportActive Assist. For details about recommenders and supportedclients, seeRecommenders.

Before you begin

For this quickstart, you need a Google Cloud project.

  1. Go to the Google Cloud console.

  2. Select a Google Cloud project, folder, or organization.

    You can only see recommendations at an organization or folder level if youhave permissions for that organization or folder, regardless of yourpermissions for folders or projects within it.

  3. Ensure you have sufficient Identity and Access Management (IAM) permissions to viewthe project's recommendations. If you don't have sufficient permission, youmight not be able to view some recommendations, and Active Assistmight appear empty. To see recommendations forall Google Cloud products and services, grant or request theRecommender Viewer Role.Alternatively, you can grant viewer roles for individual recommenders, suchas theIAM Recommender Viewer role.Seerecommenders for links to informationabout individual recommenders.

Note: If you are starting with a new project, you won't see any recommendations.

Find recommendations

  1. Navigate to Active Assist.

    Go to Active Assist

    This page displays an overview of all recommendations categorized byvalue pillar (Cost, Security, Performance, Reliability, Management, andSustainability).

    Note: If you have sufficient permissions and your Active Assist isstill empty, you may have no active services that have recommenders thatsupport Active Assist or your services may not have been inuse long enough to generate recommendations.

  2. Select theAll recommendations tab.

    This page displays a table of every recommendation that you can filter, sort,and share. You can explore recommendations in detail, see what resources areaffected, and what impact applying a recommendation might have.

Apply and dismiss recommendations

  1. In the Recommendation column, click the recommendation you want to learnmore about. A details panel opens that shows the observation that led to therecommendation, as well as relevant data that might help you decide whetherto apply or dismiss it.

  2. Apply or dismiss recommendations that you have permission to using the applyor dismiss buttons.

    Note that some recommendations might not be directly applicable in thedetails panel. Follow the instructions listed in the details panel to applythem.

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.

Restore dismissed recommendations

TheApplied and dismissed pagecontains a record of all of the recommendations you have applied or dismissed.

You can only restore a recommendation that has the status Dismissed. To restorea dismissed recommendation, clickRESTORE in the restore column.

Recommendations that you can't find

Not every recommendation can be found in Active Assist. You canalsofind and apply recommendations in service pagesorusing the API. For details about recommendersand supported clients, seeRecommenders.

What's next

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Last updated 2026-02-19 UTC.