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Managing planned maintenance is a critical part of running a reliable business. But as your cloud footprint grows into hundreds or even thousands of projects, keeping track of every individual update can feel like a full-time job. For many platform teams, the reality is a disjointed experience: jumping between dashboards to figure out which maintenance event affects which business service.
At Google Cloud, we believe you shouldn’t have to think like an infrastructure manager when you’re trying to solve a business problem. That’s why we are excited to announce the launch of App-centric maintenance visibility within Unified Maintenance.
Shifting the focus to your business
Until now, maintenance visibility was primarily resource-focused. You could see when a specific Compute Engine VM or Cloud SQL instance was due for an update, but you had to manually map those resources to the applications they powered.
With App-centric visibility, we are shifting the focus from infrastructure-level resources to a business-oriented view. By integrating directly with App Hub, Unified Maintenance now allows you to see maintenance events in the context of your applications.
How it works
This new capability leverages the "application" as the primary unit of management. When you register your resources in App Hub — whether they are GKE clusters, GCE VMs, or AlloyDB instances—Unified Maintenance automatically aggregates their maintenance schedules into a single, application-aware dashboard.
For platform engineers, this means:
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Reduced toil: No more manual mapping of maintenance alerts to application owners.
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Faster triage: Instantly see if a performance dip in an app coincides with a planned infrastructure update
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Predictable operations: Gain a business-oriented view of maintenance impacts across your entire landscape
Get started today
If you already have Applications defined in Google cloud, you can explore the new App-centric visibility features directly in the Google Cloud Console. To learn more about setting up your application boundaries and mapping resources, check out our Get Started Guide.
Finally, don’t forget to check out our supported services page as we are onboarding new services.