gcloud alpha monitoring policies describe

NAME
gcloud alpha monitoring policies describe - describe an alerting policy
SYNOPSIS
gcloud alpha monitoring policies describePOLICY[GCLOUD_WIDE_FLAG …]
DESCRIPTION
(ALPHA) Describe an alerting policy.
POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS
Policy resource - The alerting policy to describe. This represents a Cloudresource. (NOTE) Some attributes are not given arguments in this group but canbe set in other ways.

To set theproject attribute:

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

This must be specified.

POLICY
ID of the policy or fully qualified identifier for the policy.

To set thepolicy attribute:

  • provide the argumentpolicy on the command line.
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 themonitoring/v3 API. The full documentation forthis API can be found at:https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/api/
NOTES
This command is currently in alpha and might change without notice. If thiscommand fails with API permission errors despite specifying the correct project,you might be trying to access an API with an invitation-only early accessallowlist. These variants are also available:
gcloudmonitoringpoliciesdescribe
gcloudbetamonitoringpoliciesdescribe

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Last updated 2025-12-09 UTC.