gcloud alpha compute instances describe

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.
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