NAME
    gcloud alpha compute instances describe - describe a virtual machine
        instance

SYNOPSIS
    gcloud alpha compute instances describe INSTANCE_NAME
        [--guest-attributes=[GUEST_ATTRIBUTE_KEY,...]] [--view=VIEW]
        [--zone=ZONE] [GCLOUD_WIDE_FLAG ...]

DESCRIPTION
    (ALPHA) gcloud alpha compute instances describe displays 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
    (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/filtering-and-formatting-fun-with).

EXAMPLES
    To describe an instance named test-instance, run:

        $ gcloud alpha compute instances describe test-instance

    To output only a set of fields from the available information, specify it
    using the '--format' flag:

        $ gcloud alpha compute instances describe test-instance \
            --format="yaml(name,status,disks)"

POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS
     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
     --guest-attributes=[GUEST_ATTRIBUTE_KEY,...]
        Instead of instance resource display guest attributes of the instance
        stored with the given keys.

     --view=VIEW
        Specifies the information that the output should contain. VIEW must be
        one of:

         BASIC
            Default output view. Output contains all configuration details of
            the instance, except partner metadata.
         FULL
            Output contains all configuration details of the instance,
            including partner metadata.

     --zone=ZONE
        Zone of the instance to describe. If not specified, you might be
        prompted to select a zone (interactive mode only). gcloud attempts to
        identify the appropriate zone by searching for resources in your
        currently active project. If the zone cannot be determined, gcloud
        prompts 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/zone property:

            $ gcloud config set compute/zone ZONE

        A list of zones can be fetched by running:

            $ gcloud compute zones list

        To unset the property, run:

            $ gcloud config unset compute/zone

        Alternatively, the zone can be stored in the environment variable
        CLOUDSDK_COMPUTE_ZONE.

GCLOUD WIDE FLAGS
    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 help for details.

NOTES
    This command is currently in alpha and might change without notice. If this
    command fails with API permission errors despite specifying the correct
    project, you might be trying to access an API with an invitation-only early
    access allowlist. These variants are also available:

        $ gcloud compute instances describe

        $ gcloud beta compute instances describe

