- NAME
- 
- gcloud beta compute instance-groups managed suspend-instances - suspend instances owned by a managed instance group
 
- SYNOPSIS
- 
- 
gcloud beta compute instance-groups managed suspend-instancesNAME--instances=INSTANCE,[INSTANCE,…] [--force] [--region=REGION|--zone=ZONE] [GCLOUD_WIDE_FLAG …]
 
- 
- DESCRIPTION
- 
(BETA)gcloud beta compute instance-groups managed suspend-instancessuspends one or more instances from a managed instance group, thereby reducing the targetSize and increasing the targetSuspendedSize of the group.The command returns the operation status per instance, which might be FAILSUCCESSMEMBER_NOT_FOUNDMEMBER_NOT_FOUND
- EXAMPLES
- 
To suspend an instance from a managed instance group in the us-central1-a zone,
run:
gcloud beta compute instance-groups managed suspend-instances example-managed-instance-group --zone=us-central1-a --instances=example-instance
- POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS
- 
- NAME
- Name of the managed instance group to operate on.
 
- REQUIRED FLAGS
- 
- --instances=- INSTANCE,[- INSTANCE,…]
- Names of instances to suspend.
 
- OPTIONAL FLAGS
- 
- --force
- Immediately suspend the specified instances, skipping the initial delay, if one is specified in the standby policy.
- 
At most one of these can be specified:
- --region=- REGION
- 
Region of the managed instance group to operate on. If not specified, you might
be prompted to select a region (interactive mode only).
A list of regions can be fetched by running: gcloud compute regions listOverrides the default compute/regionproperty value for this command invocation.
- --zone=- ZONE
- 
Zone of the managed instance group to operate on. If not specified, you might be
prompted to select a zone (interactive mode only).
A list of zones can be fetched by running: gcloud compute zones listOverrides the default compute/zoneproperty value for this command invocation.
 
 
- 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 helpfor details.
- NOTES
- 
This command is currently in beta and might change without notice. These
variants are also available:
gcloud compute instance-groups managed suspend-instancesgcloud alpha compute instance-groups managed suspend-instances
      gcloud beta compute instance-groups managed suspend-instances
  
  
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Last updated 2025-05-07 UTC.