- NAME
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- gcloud compute instances describe - describe a virtual machine instance
- SYNOPSIS
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gcloud compute instances describeINSTANCE_NAME[--zone=ZONE] [GCLOUD_WIDE_FLAG …]
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- DESCRIPTION
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gcloud compute instances describedisplays all data associated with a Compute Engine virtual machine instance.It's possible to limit the the scope of the description by using the '--format' flag. For details, see Filtering and formatting fun with gcloud.
- EXAMPLES
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To describe an instance named
test-instancegcloud compute instances describe test-instanceTo output only a set of fields from the available information, specify it using the '--format' flag:
gcloud compute instances describe test-instance --format="yaml(name,status,disks)" - POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS
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INSTANCE_NAME- Name of the instance to describe. For details on valid instance names, refer to the criteria documented under the field 'name' at: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/instances
- FLAGS
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--zone=ZONE-
Zone of the instance to describe. If not specified, you might be prompted to
select a zone (interactive mode only).
gcloudattempts to identify the appropriate zone by searching for resources in your currently active project. If the zone cannot be determined,gcloudprompts you for a selection with all available Google Cloud Platform zones.To avoid prompting when this flag is omitted, the user can set the
compute/zonegcloud config set compute/zone ZONEA list of zones can be fetched by running:
gcloud compute zones listTo unset the property, run:
gcloud config unset compute/zoneAlternatively, the zone can be stored in the environment variable
CLOUDSDK_COMPUTE_ZONE
- GCLOUD WIDE FLAGS
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These flags are available to all commands:
--access-token-file,--account,--billing-project,--configuration,--flags-file,--flatten,--format,--help,--impersonate-service-account,--log-http,--project,--quiet,--trace-token,--user-output-enabled,--verbosity.Run
$ gcloud helpfor details. - NOTES
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These variants are also available:
gcloud alpha compute instances describegcloud beta compute instances describe
gcloud compute instances describe
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Last updated 2025-05-07 UTC.