gcloud looker instances describe

NAME
gcloud looker instances describe - show metadata for a Looker instance
SYNOPSIS
gcloud looker instances describe(INSTANCE :--region=REGION)[GCLOUD_WIDE_FLAG]
DESCRIPTION
Show metadata for a Looker instance.

This command can fail for the following reasons:

  • The instance specified does not exist.
  • The active account does not have permission to access the given instance.
EXAMPLES
To display the metadata for an instance with the namemy-looker-instance in the default region, run:
gcloudlookerinstancesdescribemy-looker-instance

To display all fields of the instance metadata, add the--format=json flag:

gcloudlookerinstancesdescribemy-looker-instance--format=json
POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS
Instance resource - Arguments and flags that specify the Looker instance youwant to describe. The arguments in this group can be used to specify theattributes of this resource. (NOTE) Some attributes are not given arguments inthis group but can be set in other ways.

To set theproject attribute:

  • provide the argumentinstance on the command line with a fullyspecified name;
  • provide the argument--project on the command line;
  • set the propertycore/project.

This must be specified.

INSTANCE
ID of the instance or fully qualified identifier for the instance.

To set theinstance attribute:

  • provide the argumentinstance on the command line.

This positional argument must be specified if any of the other arguments in thisgroup are specified.

--region=REGION
The name of the Looker region of the instance. Overrides the defaultlooker/region property value for this command invocation.To set theregion attribute:
  • provide the argumentinstance on the command line with a fullyspecified name;
  • provide the argument--region on the command line;
  • set the propertylooker/region.
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.

API REFERENCE
This command uses thelooker/v1 API. The full documentation forthis API can be found at:https://cloud.google.com/looker/docs/reference/rest/
NOTES
This variant is also available:
gcloudalphalookerinstancesdescribe

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Last updated 2025-05-07 UTC.