This page documents production updates to Database Center. Check this page for announcements about new or updated features, bug fixes, known issues, and deprecated functionality. You can see the latest product updates for all of Google Cloud on the [Google Cloud](https://docs.cloud.google.com/release-notes) page, browse and filter all release notes in the [Google Cloud console](https://console.cloud.google.com/release-notes), or programmatically access release notes in [BigQuery](https://console.cloud.google.com/bigquery?p=bigquery-public-data&d=google_cloud_release_notes&t=release_notes&page=table). ## August 25, 2026 Feature Use assessments ([Preview](https://cloud.google.com/products/#product-launch-stages)) in Database Center to assess and test the performance impact of database recommendations before you apply them to your production database fleet. The assessments workflow performs these operations: - Clones your database instance. - Runs benchmarking simulation tests on the clone. - Compares the baseline performance of the clone against the performance after you apply the recommended configuration changes. Database Center assessments are available only for Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL instances. For more information, see [Create an assessment of a recommendation](https://docs.cloud.google.com/database-center/docs/assessments). ## May 22, 2026 Feature Database Center generative views are available in [Preview](https://cloud.google.com/products/#product-launch-stages). Generative views use Gemini and natural language prompts to let you generate and save customized dashboard views of your database fleet inventory and metrics. For more information, see [Generate dashboard views using Gemini](https://docs.cloud.google.com/database-center/docs/generative-views). ## April 24, 2026 Feature The Database Center REST and RPC APIs are available in [Preview](https://cloud.google.com/products/#product-launch-stages). The Database Center API provides access to an organization-wide, cross-product database fleet health platform. You can use the API to aggregate health, security, and compliance signals from various Google Cloud databases. For more information, see the [Database Center API reference](https://docs.cloud.google.com/database-center/docs/reference). Feature Database Center support for Model Context Protocol (MCP) is [generally available](https://cloud.google.com/products/#product-launch-stages) (GA). You can use the Database Center remote MCP server to connect to Database Center from AI applications such as Gemini CLI, ChatGPT, or Claude. The MCP server provides access to Database Center tools that help you review fleet health, audit inventory, and check for security issues. For more information, see [Use the Database Center remote MCP server](https://docs.cloud.google.com/database-center/docs/use-database-center-mcp) and the [Database Center MCP tools reference](https://docs.cloud.google.com/database-center/docs/reference/mcp). Feature Database Center fleet insights are available in [Preview](https://cloud.google.com/products/#product-launch-stages). Fleet insights highlight inventory and performance insights generated by Gemini. You can use these insights to identify and understand specific issues in your database fleet. For more information, see [View the performance of your database fleet](https://docs.cloud.google.com/database-center/docs/performance#fleet-performance-insights) and [View your fleet inventory](https://docs.cloud.google.com/database-center/docs/view-inventory#fleet-inventory-insights). Feature Database Center dashboard reporting is available in [Preview](https://cloud.google.com/products/#product-launch-stages). You can configure daily, weekly, and monthly reports that summarize your fleet inventory and health. For more information, see [Create reports for your dashboard views](https://docs.cloud.google.com/database-center/docs/report). Feature Database Center can monitor BigQuery resources. The resources table shows the following for a BigQuery database: - Datasets for a BigQuery database. For more information, see [Introduction to datasets](https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/datasets-intro). - The number of reservations, which reserve resources, to process queries. This feature is in [Preview](https://cloud.google.com/products/#product-launch-stages). Feature Database Center lets you monitor active queries across your fleet to identify and analyze query issues, such as slow queries. This feature supports AlloyDB for PostgreSQL and Cloud SQL database products. For more information, see [View the performance of your database fleet](https://docs.cloud.google.com/database-center/docs/performance). Feature Monitoring the inventory, metrics, and alerts for Oracle Database@Google Cloud databases using Database Center is [generally available](https://cloud.google.com/products/#product-launch-stages) (GA). For more information, see [Supported health issues](https://docs.cloud.google.com/database-center/docs/database-health-issues#supported-health-issues). ## January 20, 2026 Feature You can use, view, and set maintenance windows for Cloud SQL resources. For more information, see [View and set maintenance windows for your database fleet](https://docs.cloud.google.com/database-center/docs/fleet-maintenance). ## December 22, 2025 Feature You can use Database Center to monitor your Cloud SQL database resources for enhanced backup protection. Enhanced protection is a Backup and DR Service feature. For more information, see [Use enhanced backup protection](https://docs.cloud.google.com/database-center/docs/best-practices-managing-database-fleet-health#enhanced-backup). To configure enhanced backups for Cloud SQL resources, see [Enhanced backups](https://docs.cloud.google.com/sql/docs/postgres/backup-recovery/backups). ## October 10, 2025 Feature You can monitor the inventory, metrics, and alerts for Oracle Database@Google Cloud databases using Database Center. For more information, see [Metrics and alerting policy filters](https://cloud.google.com/database-center/docs/metrics). Oracle Database@Google Cloud support in Database Center is in [Preview](https://cloud.google.com/products/#product-launch-stages). During Preview, you can't monitor health issues for Oracle Database@Google Cloud databases. ## September 02, 2025 Feature You can create alerting policies for new database resources and signals, using filters to restrict the monitored metric data. This feature lets you get detailed insights into the health of your database fleet and troubleshoot issues. You can filter data based on metric labels, such as signal type, or by resource labels, such as the resource's location or name. For more information, see [Metrics and alerting policy filters](https://cloud.google.com/database-center/docs/metrics). Feature The following performance recommendations and insights are available in Database Center: - Replication lag for Bigtable. - Outdated client for Bigtable. - Connections burdening disk for Cloud SQL for SQL Server. - Location org policy not satisfied for Spanner. For more information, see [Supported health issues](https://cloud.google.com/database-center/docs/database-health-issues#health-issue-categories). ## August 05, 2025 Feature Database Center offers monitoring support for databases running on Google Compute Engine virtual machines. This feature is in [Preview](https://cloud.google.com/products#product-launch-stages). To request access to this feature, visit the [access request page](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc_6uR6JTpgdtJ-oqQbW8gprcypGQoFcR-CUgydYeBZNtvcaw/viewform). For more information, see [Monitor databases on Compute Engine virtual machines](https://cloud.google.com/database-center/docs/monitor-gce-databases). Feature Database Center supports the analyze system performance feature in the *High Resource Utilization* recommendation for AlloyDB for PostgreSQL. For more information, see [Performance insights and recommendations](https://cloud.google.com/database-center/docs/learn-database-products-using-gemini#performance_insights_and_recommendations). Change You can enable Gemini chat at the folder level to help you learn about Google Cloud database products. To learn how to enable Gemini chat at the folder level, see [Before you begin using Gemini chat](https://cloud.google.com/database-center/docs/learn-database-products-using-gemini#before-you-begin). Change You can monitor the number of new Google Cloud database resources that were added to your fleet over the past 1, 7, or 30 days. For more information, see [View recently added database resources](https://cloud.google.com/database-center/docs/monitor-gce-databases#view-recently-added-database-resources). ## April 09, 2025 Feature When you enable Gemini, the following performance recommendations and insights are available in Database Center: - Inefficient query/index advisor for Cloud SQL - Analyze option for high resource utilization health recommendation for Cloud SQL and AlloyDB. For more information, see [Supported health issues](https://cloud.google.com/database-center/docs/database-health-issues). Feature Database Center is integrated with VPC Service Controls to secure data and resources. Use VPC Service Controls to create service perimeters that protect the resources in your database fleet and data of services that you explicitly specify. For more information, see [Configure VPC Service Controls](https://cloud.google.com/database-center/docs/configure-vpc-service-controls). Feature You can view incidents and alerting policies in Database Center. Use incidents to be notified when a metric specific to a resource is more or less than a threshold value. Use an alerting policy to create incidents to help you monitor your database fleet resources. For more information, see [Monitor your database fleet with alerting policies](https://cloud.google.com/database-center/docs/alerts). Feature Database Center is generally available ([GA](https://cloud.google.com/database-center/docs/overview)). Database Center is an AI-assisted dashboard that gives you a centralized view across your database fleet. You can view database fleet health issues and recommendations, and you can ask questions about database fleet health issues, including availability configuration, data protection, security, and industry compliance. For more information, see [Database Center overview](https://cloud.google.com/database-center/docs/overview). Feature Additional supported health issues are available in Database Center. Database Center detects health issues in multiple database products to help you maintain and troubleshoot your database fleet. For more information, see [Supported health issues](https://cloud.google.com/database-center/docs/database-health-issues#supported-health-issues) in the Database Center documentation. Feature You can create a customized dashboard view that shows only the health issues in your database fleet that you want to see. A dashboard view can be for only you, or it can be shared with other users who have access to your Google Cloud project. For more information, see [Create customized dashboard views](https://cloud.google.com/database-center/docs/dashboard-views). Change To use Gemini chat, you must open a Google Cloud project. Use Gemini chat to learn more about database fleet health issues in Database Center. For more information, see [Use Gemini chat](https://cloud.google.com/database-center/docs/learn-database-products-using-gemini#use-gemini-chat). ## December 12, 2024 Feature [Database Center](https://cloud.google.com/database-center/docs/overview) added support for [Bigtable](https://cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs), [Firestore](https://cloud.google.com/firestore/docs), and [Memorystore](https://cloud.google.com/memorystore#documentation) so you can view and analyze their resources in your fleet inventory. Database Center also added support for detecting the following [health issues](https://cloud.google.com/database-center/docs/database-health-issues) in Bigtable and Firestore: Displayed [Bigtable](https://cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs) health issues: - Resource not failover protected - No automated backup policy - Short backup retention - Last backup failed - Last backup older than 24 hours - Not replicating across all regions Displayed [Firestore](https://cloud.google.com/firestore/docs) health issues - No automated backup policy ## October 10, 2024 Feature [Spanner](https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs) is now available on [Database Center](https://cloud.google.com/database-center/docs/overview) in [Preview](https://cloud.google.com/products/?e=48754805&hl=en#product-launch-stages). You can track your Spanner resources in the fleet inventory section and the resource table in the Database Center. You can also use Database Center to monitor the following health issues for your Spanner resources: - Short backup retention - Last backup older than 24h - Not replicating across regions You can now access Database Center without enabling Gemini in Databases. Supported health issues are in [one of three tiers](https://cloud.google.com/database-center/docs/database-health-issues#tiers-health-issues): Standard, Gemini in Databases, or Security Command Center (SCC). For more information about health issues and their tiers, see [Supported health issues](https://cloud.google.com/database-center/docs/database-health-issues#supported-health-issues). ## July 16, 2024 Feature The following Database Center features are now available in [Preview](https://cloud.google.com/products?e=48754805&hl=en#product-launch-stages): **New health issues:** Database Center supports new health issues in the following categories for AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL, Cloud SQL for MySQL, and Cloud SQL for SQL Server: - Industry compliance - Performance and capacity - Security - Event Threat Detection (ETD) from Security Command Center To learn details about supported health issues, see [Database health issues](https://cloud.google.com/database-center/docs/database-health-issues). **CSV export:** You can export database fleet inventory information to a comma-separated values (CSV) file. For more information, see [Export database fleet inventory information](https://cloud.google.com/database-center/docs/filter-resources-export-fleet-inventory-information#export-database-fleet-inventory-information). **All Resources page:** The Database Center dashboard now offers a separate page for database resources, which includes additional metadata columns. For more information, see [Filter resources and export fleet inventory information](https://cloud.google.com/database-center/docs/filter-resources-export-fleet-inventory-information). **Additional resource metadata:** On the All Resources page, Database Center now displays additional metadata for each relevant database resource, including machine configuration (CPU count and memory size) and utilization metrics (current CPU utilization, memory utilization, and storage utilization as percentages of total capacity). ## April 09, 2024 Feature Gemini in Databases is now in Preview. This includes Database Center, which supports Cloud SQL for MySQL, Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL, Cloud SQL for SQL Server, and AlloyDB for PostgreSQL. For more information, see the [Gemini in Databases release notes](https://cloud.google.com/gemini/docs/release-notes#April_09_2024).