Method: backendServices.getEffectiveSecurityPolicies

• HTTP request
• Path parameters
• Request body
• Response body
• Authorization scopes
• IAM Permissions
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API Version : 2026-09-01

Returns effective security policies applied to this backend service.

HTTP request

Choose an endpoint:

global africa-south1 asia-east1 asia-east2 asia-northeast1 asia-northeast2 asia-northeast3 asia-south1 asia-south2 asia-southeast1 asia-southeast2 asia-southeast3 australia-southeast1 australia-southeast2 europe-central2 europe-north1 europe-north2 europe-southwest1 europe-west1 europe-west10 europe-west12 europe-west2 europe-west3 europe-west4 europe-west6 europe-west8 europe-west9 me-central1 me-central2 me-west1 northamerica-northeast1 northamerica-northeast2 northamerica-south1 southamerica-east1 southamerica-west1 us-central1 us-east1 us-east4 us-east5 us-south1 us-west1 us-west2 us-west3 us-west4

GET https://compute.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/{project}/global/backendServices/{backendService}/getEffectiveSecurityPolicies?$apiVersion=2026-09-01

The URLs use gRPC Transcoding syntax.

Path parameters

Parameters
project	string Project ID for this request.
backendService	string Name of the Backend Service for this request.

Request body

The request body must be empty.

Response body

If successful, the response body is empty.

Authorization scopes

Requires one of the following OAuth scopes:

• https://www.googleapis.com/auth/compute.readonly
• https://www.googleapis.com/auth/compute
• https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.

IAM Permissions

In addition to any permissions specified on the fields above, authorization requires one or more of the following IAM permissions:

• compute.backendServices.getEffectiveSecurityPolicies

To find predefined roles that contain those permissions, see Compute Engine IAM Roles.