Retrieve recommendation details across all GCP Projects

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On the home page of the google cloud project, you might have noticed a tab called recommendations. This tab contains the recommendation hub dashboard which provides details on the Unused compute engine resources, over-provisioned IAM role privileges, Underutilized & Overutilized VMs, Unutilized external ips ,etc. These notifications help us in running the cloud resources with optimized cost , performance & security. They can also be exported to BigQuery for further analysis and remediation actions.

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There are various recommenders available , the list is given below.

• google.accounts.security.SecurityKeyRecommender
• google.cloudsql.instance.OutOfDiskRecommender
• google.compute.commitment.UsageCommitmentRecommender
• google.iam.policy.Recommender
• google.compute.image.IdleResourceRecommender
• google.compute.address.IdleResourceRecommender
• google.compute.disk.IdleResourceRecommender
• google.compute.instance.IdleResourceRecommender
• google.compute.instanceGroupManager.Ma…