gcloud compute instance-groups describe NAME [--region=REGION | --zone=ZONE] [GCLOUD_WIDE_FLAG …]
gcloud compute instance-groups describe displays all data
associated with an instance group in a project.
us-central1 regions, run:
gcloud compute instance-groups describe --region=us-central1
To get details about a zonal instance group in the
zone, run:
us-central1-b
gcloud compute instance-groups describe --zone=us-central1-bNAME--region=REGIONA list of regions can be fetched by running:
gcloud compute regions listcompute/region property value for this
command invocation.
--zone=ZONEA list of zones can be fetched by running:
gcloud compute zones listcompute/zone property value for this command
invocation.
--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 help for details.
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Last updated 2026-05-27 UTC.