Insight types

Each insight has a specificinsight type. Insight types are specific to asingle Google Cloud product and resource type. A single product can havemultiple insight types, where each provides a different type of insight for adifferent resource.

Supported insight types:

NameInsight type ID
Cloud Asset insightsgoogle.cloudasset.asset.Insight
Dataflow insightsgoogle.dataflow.diagnostics.Insight
Error Reporting notification insightsgoogle.clouderrorreporting.Insight
Firewall insightsgoogle.compute.firewall.Insight
GKE diagnosis insightsgoogle.container.DiagnosisInsight
IAM policy insightsgoogle.iam.policy.Insight
IAM service account insightsgoogle.iam.serviceAccount.Insight
Idle Compute Engine resources insights
  • google.compute.disk.IdleResourceInsight
  • google.compute.image.IdleResourceInsight
  • google.compute.address.IdleResourceInsight
Lateral movement insightsgoogle.iam.policy.LateralMovementInsight
Managed instance group insights
  • google.compute.instanceGroupManager.CpuUsageInsight
  • google.compute.instanceGroupManager.CpuUsagePredictionInsight
  • google.compute.instanceGroupManager.CpuUsageTrendInsight
  • google.compute.instanceGroupManager.MemoryUsageInsight
  • google.compute.instanceGroupManager.MemoryUsagePredictionInsight
Network Analyzer insights
  • google.networkanalyzer.vpcnetwork.ipAddressInsight
  • google.networkanalyzer.vpcnetwork.connectivityInsight
  • google.networkanalyzer.networkservices.loadBalancerInsight
  • google.networkanalyzer.container.ipAddressInsight
  • google.networkanalyzer.container.connectivityInsight
  • google.networkanalyzer.container.serviceAccountInsight
  • google.networkanalyzer.hybridconnectivity.dynamicRouteInsight
Unattended project insightsgoogle.resourcemanager.projectUtilization.Insight
VM instance insights
  • google.compute.instance.CpuUsageInsight
  • google.compute.instance.CpuUsagePredictionInsight
  • google.compute.instance.CpuUsageTrendInsight
  • google.compute.instance.MemoryUsageInsight
  • google.compute.instance.MemoryUsagePredictionInsight
  • google.compute.instance.NetworkThroughputInsight
recent change insightsgoogle.cloud.RecentChangeInsight

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Last updated 2025-12-17 UTC.