- INFORMATION
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gcloud beta compute target-instances describeis supported in universe domainuniverse; however, some of the values used in the help text may not be available. Command examples may not work as-is and may requires changes before execution.
- NAME
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- gcloud beta compute target-instances describe - describe a target instance
 
- SYNOPSIS
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gcloud beta compute target-instances describeNAME[--zone=ZONE] [GCLOUD_WIDE_FLAG …]
 
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- DESCRIPTION
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(BETA)gcloud beta compute target-instances describedisplays all data associated with a Compute Engine target instance in a project.
- POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS
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- NAME
- Name of the target instance to describe.
 
- FLAGS
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- --zone=- ZONE
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Zone of the target instance to describe. If not specified and the
compute/zoneTo avoid prompting when this flag is omitted, you can set the compute/zonegcloud config set compute/zone ZONEA list of zones can be fetched by running: gcloud compute zones listTo unset the property, run: gcloud config unset compute/zoneAlternatively, the zone can be stored in the environment variable CLOUDSDK_COMPUTE_ZONE
 
- GCLOUD WIDE FLAGS
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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 helpfor details.
- NOTES
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This command is currently in beta and might change without notice. These
variants are also available:
gcloud compute target-instances describegcloud alpha compute target-instances describe
      gcloud beta compute target-instances describe
  
  
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