# Cloud Asset Inventory documentation

[Read product documentation](https://docs.cloud.google.com/asset-inventory/docs/overview) Cloud Asset Inventory provides inventory services based on a time series database. This
database keeps a five-week history of Google Cloud asset metadata. The Cloud Asset Inventory export
service lets you export all asset metadata at a certain timestamp or export event change history
during a timeframe.

## Documentation resources

Find quickstarts and guides, review key references, and get help with common issues.

### Guides

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  [Quickstart: View your assets](https://docs.cloud.google.com/asset-inventory/docs/view-assets)

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  [Roles and permissions](https://docs.cloud.google.com/asset-inventory/docs/roles-permissions)

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  [Get asset history](https://docs.cloud.google.com/asset-inventory/docs/get-asset-history)

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  [Search for resources](https://docs.cloud.google.com/asset-inventory/docs/search-resources)

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  [Export asset metadata to BigQuery](https://docs.cloud.google.com/asset-inventory/docs/export-bigquery)

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  [Export asset metadata to Cloud Storage](https://docs.cloud.google.com/asset-inventory/docs/export-cloud-storage)

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  [View IAM and organization policies on resources](https://docs.cloud.google.com/asset-inventory/docs/view-resource-policies)

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  [Monitor asset changes with Pub/Sub](https://docs.cloud.google.com/asset-inventory/docs/monitor-asset-changes)

### Reference

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  [Asset types](https://docs.cloud.google.com/asset-inventory/docs/asset-types)

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  [Asset names](https://docs.cloud.google.com/asset-inventory/docs/asset-names)

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  [Relationship types](https://docs.cloud.google.com/asset-inventory/docs/relationship-types)

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  [Search query syntax](https://docs.cloud.google.com/asset-inventory/docs/search-query-syntax)

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  [Client libraries](https://docs.cloud.google.com/asset-inventory/docs/client-libraries)

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  [REST API](https://docs.cloud.google.com/asset-inventory/docs/reference/rest)

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  [RPC API](https://docs.cloud.google.com/asset-inventory/docs/reference/rpc)

### Resources

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  [Pricing](https://docs.cloud.google.com/asset-inventory/pricing)

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  [Quotas and limits](https://docs.cloud.google.com/asset-inventory/docs/quota)

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  [Release Notes](https://docs.cloud.google.com/asset-inventory/docs/release-notes)

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  [Get support](https://docs.cloud.google.com/asset-inventory/docs/get-support)