Configure Cloud Quotas dimensions

Cloud Quotas dimensions represent different ways of measuring resource usage in Google Cloud. Dimensions are typically a region, zone, Google Cloud user, or product attribute.

The Cloud Quotas API represents dimensions as key-value pairs. The key is the dimension name (for example, region). The value is the assigned value for the dimension (for example, a region such as us-central1). Keys and values are case sensitive.

For example, Compute Engine measures VM use by using different dimensions. The region dimension measures the number of VMs you have in a given region. Compute Engine also has a number of product attribute dimensions, including gpu_family. The gpu_family dimension measures the number of GPUs of a given family in your Google Cloud project.

View dimensions

You can view the dimensions for quotas and system limits by looking in the Google Cloud console, using the Google Cloud CLI, querying the REST API, or through client libraries. To view dimensions that you haven't specified a value for, use the gcloud CLI. Also use the gcloud CLI to view dimensions for quotas and system limits that don't have regional or zonal dimensions if your project doesn't already use the associated resource. This section shows how to view dimensions by using the console and by using the gcloud CLI.