gcloud bigtable instances describe

NAME
gcloud bigtable instances describe - describe an existing Bigtable instance
SYNOPSIS
gcloud bigtable instances describeINSTANCE[GCLOUD_WIDE_FLAG …]
DESCRIPTION
Describe an existing Bigtable instance.
EXAMPLES
To view an instance's description, run:
gcloudbigtableinstancesdescribemy-instance-id
POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS
Instance resource - The instance to describe. This represents a Cloud resource.(NOTE) Some attributes are not given arguments in this group but can be set inother 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.
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.

NOTES
These variants are also available:
gcloudalphabigtableinstancesdescribe
gcloudbetabigtableinstancesdescribe

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Last updated 2025-05-07 UTC.