GCP Release Notes: December 15, 2025

Cloud Monitoring

Feature

Your Application Monitoring dashboards now display the trace spans that are associated with your registered App Hub applications. The display includes annotations that let you identify services and workloads. You can also open the Trace Explorer page from your Application Monitoring dashboards. To learn more, see the following documents:

• Application Monitoring overview.
• View application telemetry.
• Find and explore traces describes how to use the Trace Explorer page to filter and explore your trace data.

Cloud Service Mesh

Announcement

Regional Cloud Service Mesh is now available as a public preview feature. See Regional Cloud Service Mesh for more information.

Cloud Trace

Feature

The Trace Explorer has been updated to include annotations that let you identify App Hub-registered services and workloads. The link provided with a service or workload lets you open the corresponding Application Monitoring dashboard. To learn more, see the following documents:

• Find and explore traces describes how to use the Trace Explorer page to filter and explore your trace data.
• Application Monitoring overview.
• View application telemetry describes how to view the telemetry for a registered application.

Dataform

Feature

You can verify and resolve iam.serviceAccounts.actAs permission issues in Dataform by checking Cloud Logging, interpreting log entries, and granting the necessary IAM roles. For more information, see Verify act-as permissions for the effective service account. This feature is in preview.

Document AI

Feature

Custom classifier model pretrained-classifier-v1.5-2025-08-05 is available as General Availability (GA).

For more information about available models, see the custom classifier page.

Gemini Enterprise

Feature

Gemini Enterprise: Get user-level metrics (Preview)

Admins can monitor user-level metrics in the User Level tab of the Analytics page. This is a Private preview feature. For more information, see Metrics definitions.

Google Kubernetes Engine

Feature

GKE Autopilot now supports N4A machine types in Public Preview, available on clusters running version 1.34.1-gke.3403001 or later.

Identity and Access Management

Changed

You can ask Gemini for predefined role suggestions (preview) without enabling any APIs.

In addition, you can get custom role suggestions from Gemini using the Cloud Assist panel in the Google Cloud console.

For more information, see Get predefined role suggestions with Gemini assistance.

Feature

A new infinite-scrolling UI for audit logs is available on the Privileged Access Manager > Audit logs page in the Google Cloud console. This interface update replaces pagination with clear data loading indicators and time boundaries to help facilitate event investigations.

This feature is in preview.

Source: Google Cloud Platform