Method: projects.instances.list

Lists all instances in the given project.

HTTP request

GET https://spanner.googleapis.com/v1/{parent=projects/*}/instances

The URL uses gRPC Transcoding syntax.

Path parameters

Parameters
parent

string

Required. The name of the project for which a list of instances is requested. Values are of the form projects/<project>.

Authorization requires the following IAM permission on the specified resource parent:

  • spanner.instances.list

Query parameters

Parameters
pageSize

integer

Number of instances to be returned in the response. If 0 or less, defaults to the server's maximum allowed page size.
pageToken

string

If non-empty, pageToken should contain a nextPageToken from a previous ListInstancesResponse.
filter

string

An expression for filtering the results of the request. Filter rules are case insensitive. The fields eligible for filtering are:

  • name
  • displayName
  • labels.key where key is the name of a label

Some examples of using filters are:

  • name:* --> The instance has a name.
  • name:Howl --> The instance's name contains the string "howl".
  • name:HOWL --> Equivalent to above.
  • NAME:howl --> Equivalent to above.
  • labels.env:* --> The instance has the label "env".
  • labels.env:dev --> The instance has the label "env" and the value of the label contains the string "dev".
  • name:howl labels.env:dev --> The instance's name contains "howl" and it has the label "env" with its value containing "dev".
instanceDeadline

string (Timestamp format)

Deadline used while retrieving metadata for instances. Instances whose metadata cannot be retrieved within this deadline will be added to unreachable in ListInstancesResponse.

A timestamp in RFC3339 UTC "Zulu" format, with nanosecond resolution and up to nine fractional digits. Examples: "2014-10-02T15:01:23Z" and "2014-10-02T15:01:23.045123456Z".

Request body

The request body must be empty.

Response body

The response for instances.list.

If successful, the response body contains data with the following structure:

JSON representation 
{
  "instances": [
    {
      object (Instance)
    }
  ],
  "nextPageToken": string,
  "unreachable": [
    string
  ]
}
Fields
instances[]

object (Instance)

The list of requested instances.
nextPageToken

string

nextPageToken can be sent in a subsequent instances.list call to fetch more of the matching instances.
unreachable[]

string

The list of unreachable instances. It includes the names of instances whose metadata could not be retrieved within instanceDeadline.

Authorization scopes

Requires one of the following OAuth scopes:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/spanner.admin
  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.