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id: google-cloud-quotas
version: "0.6.2"
license: Apache-2.0
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
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# google-cloud-quotas — Google Cloud Quotas API client library

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Downloads: 140.4K/mo

## What it is and what it does

This is the official Python client library for Google Cloud Quotas API, a service that lets you monitor and manage resource quotas and usage limits across your Google Cloud services. It wraps the gRPC-based Cloud Quotas API and provides a Pythonic interface for quota queries, restrictions, and observability operations.

The library is built on Google's standard client infrastructure (google-api-core, google-auth, grpcio, proto-plus, protobuf) and requires Python 3.10 or later. It's actively maintained as part of the googleapis/google-cloud-python monorepo, with recent releases and support for current Python versions. Logging is available via standard Python logging with optional environment-based or code-based configuration.

Use it for:

- Query current quota usage and limits for Google Cloud services in your project to understand resource constraints
- Monitor quota consumption over time for capacity planning and cost optimization
- Retrieve quota restrictions and service-level quotas programmatically for billing or governance dashboards
- Integrate quota observability into automation workflows to prevent quota exhaustion errors
- Build internal tools that display quota status and remaining capacity across multiple Google Cloud services

## Worth the install?

AI-flagged interpretation of the facts above — verify before relying.

Python client library for Google Cloud Quotas API, enabling programmatic management and observability of resource usage, quotas, and restrictions across Google Cloud services.

Yes, if you need programmatic access to Google Cloud quota data. The library is actively maintained, has low install friction, carries no known vulnerabilities, and uses a permissive license. It's the official client for this API, so it's the natural choice for quota management in Python. Install only if you have a Google Cloud project with the Cloud Quotas API enabled and authentication configured.

## Install

pip install google-cloud-quotas
uv add google-cloud-quotas
poetry add google-cloud-quotas

## Installing google-cloud-quotas

Before you install: Low friction installation with a pure-Python wheel. Active maintenance with a recent release (8 days old) and consistent updates since early 2024. Depends on standard Google Cloud client infrastructure (google-api-core, google-auth, grpcio, proto-plus, protobuf).

License in practice: Licensed under Apache-2.0 (permissive), allowing use in commercial and open-source projects with minimal restrictions beyond attribution and liability disclaimers.

Quickstart:

pip install google-cloud-quotas

from google.cloud import quotas_v1

client = quotas_v1.CloudQuotasClient()
# Use client to query quotas and restrictions

Requires Python >= 3.10. Google Cloud project setup, billing enabled, and Cloud Quotas API enabled. Authentication credentials (via google-auth) must be configured.

Verify before relying:

- Specific quota management operations supported (list, update, describe quotas, etc.) beyond the generic API client wrapper
- Whether the library handles quota enforcement or only provides observability
- Performance characteristics for large-scale quota queries across multiple services

## Package facts

- License: Apache-2.0 (permissive)
- Python support: supports_current
- Install friction: low
- Maintenance: active
- Downloads: 140.4K/month (top 15,000 on PyPI)
- Known vulnerabilities: none known

## Tags

google cloud quotas api client, cloud resource quota management, google cloud service quotas, quota monitoring and observability, cloud resource usage tracking, google cloud api client library, quota management python, google-cloud, quota-management, cloud-api-client

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