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October 03, 2025
Preview: Capacity Planner supports the following:
- Usage and forecast data for Hyperdisk volumes
- Usage and forecast data for Persistent Disk and Hyperdisk volume IOPS and throughput
- Usage data for Spot VMs
For more information, see View usage and forecast data.
August 29, 2025
Capacity Planner is available in Preview!
Reference documentation has been added for the REST Capacity Planner API. For more information, see Authenticate to Capacity Planner and the REST API reference overview.
May 23, 2025
Preview: You can view and export usage and forecast data of the machine types and TPUs in your project, folder, or organization. This information helps you analyze usage trends and plan for future capacity needs. For more information, see the following:
December 19, 2024
Preview: You can create future reservation requests for VMs of a single machine type using the Google Cloud console. Reserving capacity based on your predicted VM or GPU usage helps ensure that your projects have the capacity needed to support increases in usage. For more information, see Reserve capacity in Capacity Planner.
November 15, 2024
Preview: You can view and export historical utilization of on-demand and future reservations in your project, folder, or organization. This data helps you analyze usage trends for your VMs or GPUs, as well as plan for future capacity needs. For more information, see the following:
September 05, 2024
Preview: You can view the on-demand reservations and future reservation requests available for consumption in your project, folder, or organization. This helps you plan for future capacity assurance, as well as view the reserved resources that cover your projected growth or peak usage. For more information, see View usage and forecast data in Capacity Planner.
July 29, 2024
Preview: Capacity planner supports the following for data aggregated by folder ID:
View and export the actual and forecasted usage data of the VMs, Persistent Disk volumes, and GPUs in your folder.
Generate gcloud CLI commands to create future reservation requests based on the actual or forecasted usage data of your VMs or GPUs by folder.
For more information, see the following pages:
July 01, 2024
Preview: Capacity Planner displays GPU usage and forecasts of the GPUs in your Google Cloud project or organization. This is useful to plan and optimize your GPU consumption.
For more information, see the following pages:
March 28, 2024
Preview: Capacity planner supports the following for data aggregated by organization ID:
View and export the actual and forecasted usage data of the VMs and persistent disks in your organization.
Generate gcloud CLI commands to create future reservation requests based on the actual or forecasted usage data of your VMs by organization.
For more information, see the following pages:
December 15, 2023
Preview: When using Capacity Planner, you can enable quota adjuster for the Compute Engine resources in your project. This allows Google Cloud to automatically submit quota increase requests on your behalf when your quota nears a limit.
Enabling quota adjuster is helpful to proactively respond to planned or unplanned growths in consumption, or prevent outages when reaching a quota limit. For more information, see Enable quota adjuster.
September 07, 2023
Preview: You can view the following when using Capacity Planner:
The 50th and 75th percentile usage and forecast of your VMs.
The historical usage of your VMs up to 2 years in the past.
The usage and forecast of all machine families in a project.
For more information, see About Capacity Planner.