What is Capacity Planner?
According to the documentation, Capacity Planner provides visibility into the current and forecasted usage of the virtual machine instances, Persistent Disk volumes and GPUs in your project, folder or organization. The service is in Preview and subject to the Pre-GA Offerings Terms.
Core Features
- Monitors current usage of compute resources across project, folder and organization level
- Forecasts future consumption of VMs, storage and accelerators
- Quota Adjuster for automatic quota increase requests
- Exports usage data to a local workstation, Cloud Storage or BigQuery
- Historical snapshots for comparing past predictions against actual usage
- Access through the Google Cloud console, API, client libraries and gcloud CLI
Typical Use Cases
Capacity planning: Future compute demand is estimated from historical usage.
Avoiding quota limits: The Quota Adjuster requests increases before limits are reached.
Forecast transparency: Historical snapshots show how well past predictions matched actual usage.
Benefits
- No additional cost for using the service
- Forecasts with explicit probability intervals
- Analysis across project, folder and organization level
- Data export to BigQuery for custom analysis
Integration with innFactory
As a certified Google Cloud Partner, innFactory supports you with Capacity Planner: setting up permissions, interpreting the prediction intervals, and establishing a regular capacity and quota review based on the exported data.
Typical Use Cases
Technical Specifications
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Capacity Planner?
According to the documentation, Capacity Planner provides visibility into the current and forecasted usage of the virtual machine instances, Persistent Disk volumes and GPUs in your project, folder or organization.
Which resources are covered?
The documentation lists Compute Engine instances, Persistent Disk and Hyperdisk volumes, GPUs, TPUs and Cloud Storage buckets.
How are forecasts produced?
According to the documentation, the system combines linear and superlinear models with yearly seasonality effects for projects with two or more years of data. Prediction intervals are given at P25-P75 (50% probability) and P05-P95 (90% probability).
What is the maturity level of Capacity Planner?
The service is in Preview and subject to the Pre-GA Offerings Terms. It is available as is and might have limited support.
What does Capacity Planner cost?
According to the documentation, there is no additional cost for using Capacity Planner. You pay only for the underlying resources created, such as Compute Engine, Cloud Storage or BigQuery.
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