MCP Tools Reference: redis.googleapis.com

Tool: create_instance

Create a Memorystore for Redis instance.

The following sample demonstrate how to use curl to invoke the create_instance MCP tool.

Curl Request 
                  
curl --location 'https://redis.googleapis.com/mcp' \
--header 'content-type: application/json' \
--header 'accept: application/json, text/event-stream' \
--data '{
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "create_instance",
    "arguments": {
      // provide these details according to the tool's MCP specification
    }
  },
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1
}'

Input Schema

Request for CreateInstance.

CreateInstanceRequest

JSON representation 
{
  "parent": string,
  "instanceId": string,
  "instance": {
    object (Instance)
  }
}
Fields
parent

string

Required. The resource name of the instance location using the form: projects/{project_id}/locations/{location_id} where location_id refers to a GCP region.
instanceId

string

Required. The logical name of the Redis instance in the customer project with the following restrictions:

  • Must contain only lowercase letters, numbers, and hyphens.
  • Must start with a letter.
  • Must be between 1-40 characters.
  • Must end with a number or a letter.
  • Must be unique within the customer project / location
instance

object (Instance)

Required. A Redis [Instance] resource

Instance

JSON representation 
{
  "name": string,
  "displayName": string,
  "labels": {
    string: string,
    ...
  },
  "locationId": string,
  "alternativeLocationId": string,
  "redisVersion": string,
  "reservedIpRange": string,
  "secondaryIpRange": string,
  "host": string,
  "port": integer,
  "currentLocationId": string,
  "createTime": string,
  "state": enum (State),
  "statusMessage": string,
  "redisConfigs": {
    string: string,
    ...
  },
  "tier": enum (Tier),
  "memorySizeGb": integer,
  "authorizedNetwork": string,
  "persistenceIamIdentity": string,
  "connectMode": enum (ConnectMode),
  "authEnabled": boolean,
  "serverCaCerts": [
    {
      object (TlsCertificate)
    }
  ],
  "transitEncryptionMode": enum (TransitEncryptionMode),
  "maintenancePolicy": {
    object (MaintenancePolicy)
  },
  "maintenanceSchedule": {
    object (MaintenanceSchedule)
  },
  "replicaCount": integer,
  "nodes": [
    {
      object (NodeInfo)
    }
  ],
  "readEndpoint": string,
  "readEndpointPort": integer,
  "readReplicasMode": enum (ReadReplicasMode),
  "customerManagedKey": string,
  "persistenceConfig": {
    object (PersistenceConfig)
  },
  "suspensionReasons": [
    enum (SuspensionReason)
  ],
  "maintenanceVersion": string,
  "availableMaintenanceVersions": [
    string
  ],
  "tags": {
    string: string,
    ...
  },

  // Union field _satisfies_pzs can be only one of the following:
  "satisfiesPzs": boolean
  // End of list of possible types for union field _satisfies_pzs.

  // Union field _satisfies_pzi can be only one of the following:
  "satisfiesPzi": boolean
  // End of list of possible types for union field _satisfies_pzi.
}
Fields
name

string

Required. Unique name of the resource in this scope including project and location using the form: projects/{project_id}/locations/{location_id}/instances/{instance_id}

Note: Redis instances are managed and addressed at regional level so location_id here refers to a GCP region; however, users may choose which specific zone (or collection of zones for cross-zone instances) an instance should be provisioned in. Refer to location_id and alternative_location_id fields for more details.
displayName

string

An arbitrary and optional user-provided name for the instance.
labels

map (key: string, value: string)

Resource labels to represent user provided metadata

An object containing a list of "key": value pairs. Example: { "name": "wrench", "mass": "1.3kg", "count": "3" }.
locationId

string

Optional. The zone where the instance will be provisioned. If not provided, the service will choose a zone from the specified region for the instance. For standard tier, additional nodes will be added across multiple zones for protection against zonal failures. If specified, at least one node will be provisioned in this zone.
alternativeLocationId

string

Optional. If specified, at least one node will be provisioned in this zone in addition to the zone specified in location_id. Only applicable to standard tier. If provided, it must be a different zone from the one provided in [location_id]. Additional nodes beyond the first 2 will be placed in zones selected by the service.
redisVersion

string

Optional. The version of Redis software. If not provided, the default version will be used. Currently, the supported values are:

  • REDIS_3_2 for Redis 3.2 compatibility
  • REDIS_4_0 for Redis 4.0 compatibility
  • REDIS_5_0 for Redis 5.0 compatibility
  • REDIS_6_X for Redis 6.x compatibility
  • REDIS_7_0 for Redis 7.0 compatibility (default)
  • REDIS_7_2 for Redis 7.2 compatibility
reservedIpRange

string

Optional. For DIRECT_PEERING mode, the CIDR range of internal addresses that are reserved for this instance. Range must be unique and non-overlapping with existing subnets in an authorized network. For PRIVATE_SERVICE_ACCESS mode, the name of one allocated IP address ranges associated with this private service access connection. If not provided, the service will choose an unused /29 block, for example, 10.0.0.0/29 or 192.168.0.0/29. For READ_REPLICAS_ENABLED the default block size is /28.
secondaryIpRange

string

Optional. Additional IP range for node placement. Required when enabling read replicas on an existing instance. For DIRECT_PEERING mode value must be a CIDR range of size /28, or "auto". For PRIVATE_SERVICE_ACCESS mode value must be the name of an allocated address range associated with the private service access connection, or "auto".
host

string

Output only. Hostname or IP address of the exposed Redis endpoint used by clients to connect to the service.
port

integer

Output only. The port number of the exposed Redis endpoint.
currentLocationId

string

Output only. The current zone where the Redis primary node is located. In basic tier, this will always be the same as [location_id]. In standard tier, this can be the zone of any node in the instance.
createTime

string (Timestamp format)

Output only. The time the instance was created.

Uses RFC 3339, where generated output will always be Z-normalized and use 0, 3, 6 or 9 fractional digits. Offsets other than "Z" are also accepted. Examples: "2014-10-02T15:01:23Z", "2014-10-02T15:01:23.045123456Z" or "2014-10-02T15:01:23+05:30".
state

enum (State)

Output only. The current state of this instance.
statusMessage

string

Output only. Additional information about the current status of this instance, if available.
redisConfigs

map (key: string, value: string)

Optional. Redis configuration parameters, according to Redis configuration. Currently, the only supported parameters are:

Redis version 3.2 and newer:

  • maxmemory-policy
  • notify-keyspace-events

Redis version 4.0 and newer:

  • activedefrag
  • lfu-decay-time
  • lfu-log-factor
  • maxmemory-gb

Redis version 5.0 and newer:

  • stream-node-max-bytes
  • stream-node-max-entries

An object containing a list of "key": value pairs. Example: { "name": "wrench", "mass": "1.3kg", "count": "3" }.
tier

enum (Tier)

Required. The service tier of the instance.
memorySizeGb

integer

Required. Redis memory size in GiB.
authorizedNetwork

string

Optional. The full name of the Google Compute Engine network to which the instance is connected. If left unspecified, the default network will be used.
persistenceIamIdentity

string

Output only. Cloud IAM identity used by import / export operations to transfer data to/from Cloud Storage. Format is "serviceAccount:". The value may change over time for a given instance so should be checked before each import/export operation.
connectMode

enum (ConnectMode)

Optional. The network connect mode of the Redis instance. If not provided, the connect mode defaults to DIRECT_PEERING.
authEnabled

boolean

Optional. Indicates whether OSS Redis AUTH is enabled for the instance. If set to "true" AUTH is enabled on the instance. Default value is "false" meaning AUTH is disabled.
serverCaCerts[]

object (TlsCertificate)

Output only. List of server CA certificates for the instance.
transitEncryptionMode

enum (TransitEncryptionMode)

Optional. The TLS mode of the Redis instance. If not provided, TLS is disabled for the instance.
maintenancePolicy

object (MaintenancePolicy)

Optional. The maintenance policy for the instance. If not provided, maintenance events can be performed at any time.
maintenanceSchedule

object (MaintenanceSchedule)

Output only. Date and time of upcoming maintenance events which have been scheduled.
replicaCount

integer

Optional. The number of replica nodes. The valid range for the Standard Tier with read replicas enabled is [1-5] and defaults to 2. If read replicas are not enabled for a Standard Tier instance, the only valid value is 1 and the default is 1. The valid value for basic tier is 0 and the default is also 0.
nodes[]

object (NodeInfo)

Output only. Info per node.
readEndpoint

string

Output only. Hostname or IP address of the exposed readonly Redis endpoint. Standard tier only. Targets all healthy replica nodes in instance. Replication is asynchronous and replica nodes will exhibit some lag behind the primary. Write requests must target 'host'.
readEndpointPort

integer

Output only. The port number of the exposed readonly redis endpoint. Standard tier only. Write requests should target 'port'.
readReplicasMode

enum (ReadReplicasMode)

Optional. Read replicas mode for the instance. Defaults to READ_REPLICAS_DISABLED.
customerManagedKey

string

Optional. The KMS key reference that the customer provides when trying to create the instance.
persistenceConfig

object (PersistenceConfig)

Optional. Persistence configuration parameters
suspensionReasons[]

enum (SuspensionReason)

Optional. reasons that causes instance in "SUSPENDED" state.
maintenanceVersion

string

Optional. The self service update maintenance version. The version is date based such as "20210712_00_00".
availableMaintenanceVersions[]

string

Optional. The available maintenance versions that an instance could update to.
tags

map (key: string, value: string)

Optional. Input only. Immutable. Tag keys/values directly bound to this resource. For example: "123/environment": "production", "123/costCenter": "marketing"

An object containing a list of "key": value pairs. Example: { "name": "wrench", "mass": "1.3kg", "count": "3" }.

Union field _satisfies_pzs.

_satisfies_pzs can be only one of the following:
satisfiesPzs

boolean

Optional. Output only. Reserved for future use.

Union field _satisfies_pzi.

_satisfies_pzi can be only one of the following:
satisfiesPzi

boolean

Optional. Output only. Reserved for future use.

LabelsEntry

JSON representation 
{
  "key": string,
  "value": string
}
Fields
key

string
value

string

Timestamp

JSON representation 
{
  "seconds": string,
  "nanos": integer
}
Fields
seconds

string (int64 format)

Represents seconds of UTC time since Unix epoch 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z. Must be between -62135596800 and 253402300799 inclusive (which corresponds to 0001-01-01T00:00:00Z to 9999-12-31T23:59:59Z).
nanos

integer

Non-negative fractions of a second at nanosecond resolution. This field is the nanosecond portion of the duration, not an alternative to seconds. Negative second values with fractions must still have non-negative nanos values that count forward in time. Must be between 0 and 999,999,999 inclusive.

RedisConfigsEntry

JSON representation 
{
  "key": string,
  "value": string
}
Fields
key

string
value

string

TlsCertificate

JSON representation 
{
  "serialNumber": string,
  "cert": string,
  "createTime": string,
  "expireTime": string,
  "sha1Fingerprint": string
}
Fields
serialNumber

string

Serial number, as extracted from the certificate.
cert

string

PEM representation.
createTime

string (Timestamp format)

Output only. The time when the certificate was created in RFC 3339 format, for example 2020-05-18T00:00:00.094Z.

Uses RFC 3339, where generated output will always be Z-normalized and use 0, 3, 6 or 9 fractional digits. Offsets other than "Z" are also accepted. Examples: "2014-10-02T15:01:23Z", "2014-10-02T15:01:23.045123456Z" or "2014-10-02T15:01:23+05:30".
expireTime

string (Timestamp format)

Output only. The time when the certificate expires in RFC 3339 format, for example 2020-05-18T00:00:00.094Z.

Uses RFC 3339, where generated output will always be Z-normalized and use 0, 3, 6 or 9 fractional digits. Offsets other than "Z" are also accepted. Examples: "2014-10-02T15:01:23Z", "2014-10-02T15:01:23.045123456Z" or "2014-10-02T15:01:23+05:30".
sha1Fingerprint

string

Sha1 Fingerprint of the certificate.

MaintenancePolicy

JSON representation 
{
  "createTime": string,
  "updateTime": string,
  "description": string,
  "weeklyMaintenanceWindow": [
    {
      object (WeeklyMaintenanceWindow)
    }
  ]
}
Fields
createTime

string (Timestamp format)

Output only. The time when the policy was created.

Uses RFC 3339, where generated output will always be Z-normalized and use 0, 3, 6 or 9 fractional digits. Offsets other than "Z" are also accepted. Examples: "2014-10-02T15:01:23Z", "2014-10-02T15:01:23.045123456Z" or "2014-10-02T15:01:23+05:30".
updateTime

string (Timestamp format)

Output only. The time when the policy was last updated.

Uses RFC 3339, where generated output will always be Z-normalized and use 0, 3, 6 or 9 fractional digits. Offsets other than "Z" are also accepted. Examples: "2014-10-02T15:01:23Z", "2014-10-02T15:01:23.045123456Z" or "2014-10-02T15:01:23+05:30".
description

string

Optional. Description of what this policy is for. Create/Update methods return INVALID_ARGUMENT if the length is greater than 512.
weeklyMaintenanceWindow[]

object (WeeklyMaintenanceWindow)

Optional. Maintenance window that is applied to resources covered by this policy. Minimum 1. For the current version, the maximum number of weekly_window is expected to be one.

WeeklyMaintenanceWindow

JSON representation 
{
  "day": enum (google.type.DayOfWeek),
  "startTime": {
    object (TimeOfDay)
  },
  "duration": string
}
Fields
day

enum (google.type.DayOfWeek)

Required. The day of week that maintenance updates occur.
startTime

object (TimeOfDay)

Required. Start time of the window in UTC time.
duration

string (Duration format)

Output only. Duration of the maintenance window. The current window is fixed at 1 hour.

A duration in seconds with up to nine fractional digits, ending with 's'. Example: "3.5s".

TimeOfDay

JSON representation 
{
  "hours": integer,
  "minutes": integer,
  "seconds": integer,
  "nanos": integer
}
Fields
hours

integer

Hours of a day in 24 hour format. Must be greater than or equal to 0 and typically must be less than or equal to 23. An API may choose to allow the value "24:00:00" for scenarios like business closing time.
minutes

integer

Minutes of an hour. Must be greater than or equal to 0 and less than or equal to 59.
seconds

integer

Seconds of a minute. Must be greater than or equal to 0 and typically must be less than or equal to 59. An API may allow the value 60 if it allows leap-seconds.
nanos

integer

Fractions of seconds, in nanoseconds. Must be greater than or equal to 0 and less than or equal to 999,999,999.

Duration

JSON representation 
{
  "seconds": string,
  "nanos": integer
}
Fields
seconds

string (int64 format)

Signed seconds of the span of time. Must be from -315,576,000,000 to +315,576,000,000 inclusive. Note: these bounds are computed from: 60 sec/min * 60 min/hr * 24 hr/day * 365.25 days/year * 10000 years
nanos

integer

Signed fractions of a second at nanosecond resolution of the span of time. Durations less than one second are represented with a 0 seconds field and a positive or negative nanos field. For durations of one second or more, a non-zero value for the nanos field must be of the same sign as the seconds field. Must be from -999,999,999 to +999,999,999 inclusive.

MaintenanceSchedule

JSON representation 
{
  "startTime": string,
  "endTime": string,
  "canReschedule": boolean,
  "scheduleDeadlineTime": string
}
Fields
startTime

string (Timestamp format)

Output only. The start time of any upcoming scheduled maintenance for this instance.

Uses RFC 3339, where generated output will always be Z-normalized and use 0, 3, 6 or 9 fractional digits. Offsets other than "Z" are also accepted. Examples: "2014-10-02T15:01:23Z", "2014-10-02T15:01:23.045123456Z" or "2014-10-02T15:01:23+05:30".
endTime

string (Timestamp format)

Output only. The end time of any upcoming scheduled maintenance for this instance.

Uses RFC 3339, where generated output will always be Z-normalized and use 0, 3, 6 or 9 fractional digits. Offsets other than "Z" are also accepted. Examples: "2014-10-02T15:01:23Z", "2014-10-02T15:01:23.045123456Z" or "2014-10-02T15:01:23+05:30".
canReschedule
(deprecated)

boolean

If the scheduled maintenance can be rescheduled, default is true.
scheduleDeadlineTime

string (Timestamp format)

Output only. The deadline that the maintenance schedule start time can not go beyond, including reschedule.

Uses RFC 3339, where generated output will always be Z-normalized and use 0, 3, 6 or 9 fractional digits. Offsets other than "Z" are also accepted. Examples: "2014-10-02T15:01:23Z", "2014-10-02T15:01:23.045123456Z" or "2014-10-02T15:01:23+05:30".

NodeInfo

JSON representation 
{
  "id": string,
  "zone": string
}
Fields
id

string

Output only. Node identifying string. e.g. 'node-0', 'node-1'
zone

string

Output only. Location of the node.

PersistenceConfig

JSON representation 
{
  "persistenceMode": enum (PersistenceMode),
  "rdbSnapshotPeriod": enum (SnapshotPeriod),
  "rdbNextSnapshotTime": string,
  "rdbSnapshotStartTime": string
}
Fields
persistenceMode

enum (PersistenceMode)

Optional. Controls whether Persistence features are enabled. If not provided, the existing value will be used.
rdbSnapshotPeriod

enum (SnapshotPeriod)

Optional. Period between RDB snapshots. Snapshots will be attempted every period starting from the provided snapshot start time. For example, a start time of 01/01/2033 06:45 and SIX_HOURS snapshot period will do nothing until 01/01/2033, and then trigger snapshots every day at 06:45, 12:45, 18:45, and 00:45 the next day, and so on. If not provided, TWENTY_FOUR_HOURS will be used as default.
rdbNextSnapshotTime

string (Timestamp format)

Output only. The next time that a snapshot attempt is scheduled to occur.

Uses RFC 3339, where generated output will always be Z-normalized and use 0, 3, 6 or 9 fractional digits. Offsets other than "Z" are also accepted. Examples: "2014-10-02T15:01:23Z", "2014-10-02T15:01:23.045123456Z" or "2014-10-02T15:01:23+05:30".
rdbSnapshotStartTime

string (Timestamp format)

Optional. Date and time that the first snapshot was/will be attempted, and to which future snapshots will be aligned. If not provided, the current time will be used.

Uses RFC 3339, where generated output will always be Z-normalized and use 0, 3, 6 or 9 fractional digits. Offsets other than "Z" are also accepted. Examples: "2014-10-02T15:01:23Z", "2014-10-02T15:01:23.045123456Z" or "2014-10-02T15:01:23+05:30".

TagsEntry

JSON representation 
{
  "key": string,
  "value": string
}
Fields
key

string
value

string

Output Schema

This resource represents a long-running operation that is the result of a network API call.

Operation

JSON representation 
{
  "name": string,
  "metadata": {
    "@type": string,
    field1: ...,
    ...
  },
  "done": boolean,

  // Union field result can be only one of the following:
  "error": {
    object (Status)
  },
  "response": {
    "@type": string,
    field1: ...,
    ...
  }
  // End of list of possible types for union field result.
}
Fields
name

string

The server-assigned name, which is only unique within the same service that originally returns it. If you use the default HTTP mapping, the name should be a resource name ending with operations/{unique_id}.
metadata

object

{

createTime: The time the operation was created.

endTime: The time the operation finished running.

target: Server-defined resource path for the target of the operation.

verb: Name of the verb executed by the operation.

statusDetail: Human-readable status of the operation, if any.

cancelRequested: Identifies whether the user has requested cancellation of the operation. Operations that have successfully been cancelled have Operation.error value with a google.rpc.Status.code of 1, corresponding to Code.CANCELLED.

apiVersion: API version used to start the operation.

}

An object containing fields of an arbitrary type. An additional field "@type" contains a URI identifying the type. Example: { "id": 1234, "@type": "types.example.com/standard/id" }.
done

boolean

If the value is false, it means the operation is still in progress. If true, the operation is completed, and either error or response is available.
Union field result. The operation result, which can be either an error or a valid response. If done == false, neither error nor response is set. If done == true, exactly one of error or response can be set. Some services might not provide the result. result can be only one of the following:
error

object (Status)

The error result of the operation in case of failure or cancellation.
response

object

The normal, successful response of the operation. If the original method returns no data on success, such as Delete, the response is google.protobuf.Empty. If the original method is standard Get/Create/Update, the response should be the resource. For other methods, the response should have the type XxxResponse, where Xxx is the original method name. For example, if the original method name is TakeSnapshot(), the inferred response type is TakeSnapshotResponse.

An object containing fields of an arbitrary type. An additional field "@type" contains a URI identifying the type. Example: { "id": 1234, "@type": "types.example.com/standard/id" }.

Any

JSON representation 
{
  "typeUrl": string,
  "value": string
}
Fields
typeUrl

string

Identifies the type of the serialized Protobuf message with a URI reference consisting of a prefix ending in a slash and the fully-qualified type name.

Example: type.googleapis.com/google.protobuf.StringValue

This string must contain at least one / character, and the content after the last / must be the fully-qualified name of the type in canonical form, without a leading dot. Do not write a scheme on these URI references so that clients do not attempt to contact them.

The prefix is arbitrary and Protobuf implementations are expected to simply strip off everything up to and including the last / to identify the type. type.googleapis.com/ is a common default prefix that some legacy implementations require. This prefix does not indicate the origin of the type, and URIs containing it are not expected to respond to any requests.

All type URL strings must be legal URI references with the additional restriction (for the text format) that the content of the reference must consist only of alphanumeric characters, percent-encoded escapes, and characters in the following set (not including the outer backticks): /-.~_!$&()*+,;=. Despite our allowing percent encodings, implementations should not unescape them to prevent confusion with existing parsers. For example, type.googleapis.com%2FFoo should be rejected.

In the original design of Any, the possibility of launching a type resolution service at these type URLs was considered but Protobuf never implemented one and considers contacting these URLs to be problematic and a potential security issue. Do not attempt to contact type URLs.
value

string (bytes format)

Holds a Protobuf serialization of the type described by type_url.

A base64-encoded string.

Status

JSON representation 
{
  "code": integer,
  "message": string,
  "details": [
    {
      "@type": string,
      field1: ...,
      ...
    }
  ]
}
Fields
code

integer

The status code, which should be an enum value of google.rpc.Code.
message

string

A developer-facing error message, which should be in English. Any user-facing error message should be localized and sent in the google.rpc.Status.details field, or localized by the client.
details[]

object

A list of messages that carry the error details. There is a common set of message types for APIs to use.

An object containing fields of an arbitrary type. An additional field "@type" contains a URI identifying the type. Example: { "id": 1234, "@type": "types.example.com/standard/id" }.

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