gcloud scc sources describe

NAME
gcloud scc sources describe - describe a source given its display name or source id
SYNOPSIS
gcloud scc sources describe[PARENT](--source=SOURCE    |--source-display-name=SOURCE_DISPLAY_NAME)[GCLOUD_WIDE_FLAG]
DESCRIPTION
Describe a source given its display name or source id.
EXAMPLES
Describe source with display nameSecurity Scanner:
gcloudsccsourcesdescribe123456--source-display-name="Security Scanner"

Describe source with source id '5678':

gcloudsccsourcesdescribe123456--source=5678
POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS
Parent resource - parent organization, folder, or project in the Google Cloudresource hierarchy to be used for thegcloud scc command. Specify theargument as either [RESOURCE_TYPE/RESOURCE_ID] or [RESOURCE_ID], as shown in thepreceding examples. This represents a Cloud resource.
[PARENT]
ID of the parent or fully qualified identifier for the parent.

To set theparent attribute:

  • provide the argumentparent on the command line;
  • Set the parent property in configuration usinggcloud config setscc/parent if it is not specified in command line.
REQUIRED FLAGS
Exactly one of these must be specified:
--source=SOURCE
Cloud SCC specific source. It's derived from the the source's relative resourcename. See:https://cloud.google.com/apis/design/resource_names#relative_resource_name.For Example: For the given source name: "organizations/123/sources/456", 456represents source id.
--source-display-name=SOURCE_DISPLAY_NAME
Source's display name must be unique amongst its siblings, for example, twosources with the same parent can't share the same display name. Display namemust start and end with a letter or digit, may contain letters, digits, spaces,hyphens, and underscores, and can be no longer than 32 characters. This iscaptured by the regular expression: [\p{L}\p{N}]({\p{L}\p{N}-]{0,30}[\p{L}\p{N}])?. For example: 'Cloud Security Scanner' is the sourcedisplay name.
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 thesecuritycenter/v2 API. The full documentationfor this API can be found at:https://cloud.google.com/security-command-center
NOTES
These variants are also available:
gcloudalphasccsourcesdescribe
gcloudbetasccsourcesdescribe

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Last updated 2026-01-21 UTC.