Cloud Memorystore for Memcached API

Name: Cloud Memorystore for Memcached API API
Brand: Cloud Memorystore for Memcached API
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✓ Official Vendor SpecStorageDatabaseoauth212 EndpointsREST

For Agents

Provision and manage Cloud Memorystore for Memcached instances: create and delete instances, change Memcached parameters on live nodes, upgrade engine versions, and reschedule maintenance.

Quickstart

Get started with Cloud Memorystore for Memcached API in minutes using your preferred integration method.

# Add to your MCP client config (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf)
{
  "jentic": {
    "url": "https://api.jentic.com/mcp",
    "auth": "oauth"
  }
}

# Then ask your agent:
"provision a managed memcached instance on google cloud"

# → Jentic returns the GET /events tool with parameter schema, agent executes.

Capabilities

What an agent can do with Cloud Memorystore for Memcached API API.

Provision and delete Memcached instances inside a Google Cloud project location

List Memcached instances and their node counts and versions

Update Memcached parameters and apply them across the running nodes

Trigger an in-place version upgrade of a Memcached instance

GET STARTED

Start building with Cloud Memorystore for Memcached API API

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Use for: Provision a new Cloud Memorystore for Memcached instance with 3 nodes, List all Memcached instances under my project and their versions, Update Memcached parameters on a running instance, Apply previously updated parameters across all nodes of an instance

Not supported: Does not handle cache reads or writes, persistence, or Redis-style data structures — use for Memcached instance lifecycle, parameter management, version upgrades, and maintenance scheduling only.

Cloud Memorystore for Memcached provides a managed Memcached service on Google Cloud, with this API covering instance lifecycle, parameter management, version upgrades, and maintenance scheduling. Instances are scoped to project locations and most state changes return long-running operation handles. The API exposes apply-parameters and update-parameters semantics that let teams change Memcached configuration on running nodes, and rescheduleMaintenance lets workloads control planned maintenance windows.

Use Cases

Patterns agents use Cloud Memorystore for Memcached API API for, with concrete tasks.

★ Cache layer provisioning

Provision a managed Memcached instance to sit in front of a backend database for read-heavy workloads, specifying node count, node CPU and memory, and the network. Provisioning is a long-running operation that typically completes within a few minutes for small instances.

Create an instance named cache-prod under projects/acme/locations/us-central1 with 3 nodes of 4 vCPUs and 4 GB memory each and poll the operation until done

Live parameter tuning

Update Memcached parameters such as max_item_size on a running instance and use applyParameters to push the change to all nodes without recreating the cluster. Useful when applications begin storing larger objects or require connection-related tuning.

Update parameters on instance cache-prod to set max_item_size=4194304, then call applyParameters on all node IDs

Maintenance window control

Reschedule a planned maintenance window so it falls outside critical traffic periods. The rescheduleMaintenance endpoint accepts a target start time or instructs the service to take the next available window, returning a long-running operation that resolves once the schedule is updated.

Call rescheduleMaintenance on instance cache-prod with rescheduleType SPECIFIC_TIME and scheduleTime set to next Sunday 03:00 UTC

Agent integration via Jentic

AI agents managing cache infrastructure can use the Memcached API through Jentic to provision instances, tune parameters, and time maintenance windows without holding the underlying OAuth refresh token. Jentic surfaces the long-running operation handles for the agent to poll.

List all instances in projects/acme/locations/us-central1 with no traffic in the last 7 days and queue a delete request for each

Key Endpoints

12 endpoints — cloud memorystore for memcached provides a managed memcached service on google cloud, with this api covering instance lifecycle, parameter management, version upgrades, and maintenance scheduling.

METHOD

PATH

DESCRIPTION

GET

/v1/{+parent}/instances

List Memcached instances in a project location

DELETE

/v1/{+name}

Delete a Memcached instance

POST

/v1/{+name}:applyParameters

Apply staged parameters to nodes

PATCH

/v1/{+name}:updateParameters

Update Memcached parameters

POST

/v1/{+name}:upgrade

Upgrade a Memcached instance version

POST

/v1/{+instance}:rescheduleMaintenance

Reschedule a maintenance window

GET

/v1/{+name}/operations

List long-running operations

GET

/v1/{+parent}/instances

List Memcached instances in a project location

DELETE

/v1/{+name}

Delete a Memcached instance

POST

/v1/{+name}:applyParameters

Apply staged parameters to nodes

PATCH

/v1/{+name}:updateParameters

Update Memcached parameters

POST

/v1/{+name}:upgrade

Upgrade a Memcached instance version

Why though Jentic?

Three things that make agents converge on Jentic-routed access.

Credential isolation

Google Cloud OAuth 2.0 client credentials and refresh tokens are stored encrypted in the Jentic vault. Agents receive short-lived bearer tokens scoped to cloud-platform; the refresh token and client secret never enter the agent's context.

Intent-based discovery

Agents search Jentic by intent such as provision memcached instance or update memcached parameters and Jentic returns the matching operations with input schemas, so the agent does not have to navigate Google Cloud's discovery documents.

Time to first call

Direct integration takes a day or more for OAuth setup, long-running operation polling, and parameter application logic. Through Jentic the same flows are under an hour: search, load schema, execute, poll the returned operation.

Related APIs

Alternatives and complements available in the Jentic catalogue.

Alternative

Cloud Memorystore for Redis API

Managed Redis on Google Cloud for richer data structures and persistence

Choose Redis when the workload needs sorted sets, streams, or persistence; use Memcached for a simpler, shard-friendly cache

Complementary

Compute Engine API

Provisions VMs that connect to the Memcached instance over the same VPC network

Use Compute Engine to create the application VMs; use this API to create the cache they connect to

Complementary

Cloud Monitoring API

Reads time-series metrics emitted by Memcached instances for alerting and dashboards

Use Cloud Monitoring once instances are running and the agent needs to react to cache hit ratios or memory usage

FAQs

Specific to using Cloud Memorystore for Memcached API API through Jentic.

What authentication does the Memorystore for Memcached API use?

The API uses Google OAuth 2.0 with the https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform scope. Through Jentic, the OAuth credentials are held in the encrypted vault and the agent only sees a scoped, short-lived bearer token.

Can I update Memcached parameters on a running instance?

Yes. Call updateParameters with the new parameter values, then applyParameters to push the staged changes to nodes. Both calls return long-running operations you can poll for completion.

What are the rate limits for this API?

Per-project quotas for the Memorystore service govern how many instances you can have and how often lifecycle operations can be invoked. See the Cloud Console quotas page; bulk lifecycle calls should respect concurrent operation limits and use exponential backoff on 429 responses.

How do I reschedule a Memcached maintenance window through Jentic?

Search Jentic for reschedule memcached maintenance, load the operation that maps to /v1/{+instance}:rescheduleMaintenance, and execute with the instance name and a SPECIFIC_TIME scheduleTime. Jentic returns the long-running operation for polling.

Is the Memorystore for Memcached API free?

The API itself is not separately billed; you pay for provisioned Memcached node-hours and any associated network egress. See the Memorystore pricing page for current rates.

Does this API let me read or write cache values?

No, this is the control-plane API for managing instances. Application-level cache reads and writes happen over the standard Memcached protocol against the instance's discoveryEndpoint, not through this API.