- NAME
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- gcloud beta essential-contacts create - create an essential contact
- SYNOPSIS
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gcloud beta essential-contacts create--email=EMAIL--language=LANGUAGE--notification-categories= [NOTIFICATION_CATEGORIES, …] [--folder=FOLDER|--organization=ORGANIZATION|--project=PROJECT] [GCLOUD_WIDE_FLAG …]
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- EXAMPLES
- To create a contact in the current project, run:
gcloud beta essential-contacts create --email = contact-email@example.com --notification-categories = technical,product-updates --language = en-USTo create a contact in the folder with id
, run:456gcloud beta essential-contacts create --email = contact-email@example.com --notification-categories = technical,product-updates --language = en-US --folder = 456To create a contact in the organization with id
, run:456gcloud beta essential-contacts create --email = contact-email@example.com --notification-categories = technical,product-updates --language = en-US --organization = 456 - REQUIRED FLAGS
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--email=EMAIL - email address of contact.
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--language=LANGUAGE - preferred language of contact. Must be a valid ISO 639-1 language code.
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--notification-categories=[NOTIFICATION_CATEGORIES,…] - list of notification categories contact is subscribed to.
NOTIFICATION_CATEGORIESmust be one of:all,billing,legal,notification-category-unspecified,product-updates,security,suspension,technical,technical-incidents.
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- OPTIONAL FLAGS
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- At most one of these can be specified:
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--folder=FOLDER - folder number where contacts are set. If neither --project, --folder, nor --organization are provided then the config property [core/project] will be used as the resource.
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--organization=ORGANIZATION - organization number where contacts are set. If neither --project, --folder, nor --organization are provided then the config property [core/project] will be used as the resource.
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--project=PROJECT - project number or id where contacts are set. If neither --project, --folder, nor --organization are provided then the config property [core/project] will be used as the resource.
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- At most one of these can be specified:
- 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 helpfor details. - NOTES
- This command is currently in beta and might change without notice. These
variants are also available:
gcloud essential-contacts creategcloud alpha essential-contacts create
gcloud beta essential-contacts create
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Last updated 2026-05-27 UTC.

