GCP Release Notes: April 24, 2026

Database Center

Feature

The Database Center REST and RPC APIs are available in Preview. 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.

Feature

Database Center support for Model Context Protocol (MCP) is generally available (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 and the Database Center MCP tools reference.

Feature

Database Center fleet insights are available in Preview. 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 and View your fleet inventory.

Feature

Database Center dashboard reporting is available in Preview. 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.

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.

• The number of reservations, which reserve resources, to process queries.

This feature is in Preview.

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.

Feature

Monitoring the inventory, metrics, and alerts for Oracle Database@Google Cloud databases using Database Center is generally available (GA). For more information, see Supported health issues.

Dataform

Announcement

Cloud Composer is now called Managed Service for Apache Airflow. The names for associated APIs, client libraries, CLI commands, and Identity and Access Management (IAM) resources remain unchanged. For more information, see Managed Airflow overview.

Announcement

Dataplex Universal Catalog is now called Knowledge Catalog. The API, client library, CLI, and Identity and Access Management (IAM) resources remain unchanged. For more information, see Knowledge Catalog overview.

Announcement

Vertex AI is now called Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. The names for associated APIs, client libraries, CLI commands, and Identity and Access Management (IAM) resources remain unchanged. For more information, see Agent Platform overview.

Source: Google Cloud Platform