NAME
    gcloud alpha emulators datastore start - start a local datastore emulator

SYNOPSIS
    gcloud alpha emulators datastore start
        [--consistency=CONSISTENCY; default=0.9] [--data-dir=DATA_DIR]
        [--host-port=HOST_PORT] [--no-store-on-disk] [GCLOUD_WIDE_FLAG ...]

DESCRIPTION
    (ALPHA) This command starts a local datastore emulator.

EXAMPLES
    To start a local datastore emulator, run:

        $ gcloud alpha emulators datastore start --data-dir=DATA-DIR

FLAGS
     --consistency=CONSISTENCY; default=0.9
        Fraction of eventually consistent operations that should succeed
        immediately. Setting to 1.0 can be useful for unit tests, but may mask
        incorrect assumptions about non-ancestor queries which are eventually
        consistent.

     --data-dir=DATA_DIR
        The directory to be used to store/retrieve data/config for an emulator
        run. The default value is <USER_CONFIG_DIR>/emulators/datastore. The
        value of USER_CONFIG_DIR can be found by running:

            $ gcloud info --format='get(config.paths.global_config_dir)'

     --host-port=HOST_PORT
        The host:port to which the emulator should be bound. Can take the form
        of a single address (hostname, IPv4, or IPv6) and/or port:

            [ADDRESS][:PORT]

        In this format you must enclose IPv6 addresses in square brackets: e.g.

            [2001:db8:0:0:0:ff00:42:8329]:8080

        The default value is localhost:8081.

     --store-on-disk
        Whether data should be persisted to disk. Enabled by default, use
        --no-store-on-disk to disable.

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. This variant is also available:

        $ gcloud beta emulators datastore start