- NAME
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- gcloud beta iam service-accounts describe - show metadata for a service account from a project
- SYNOPSIS
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gcloud beta iam service-accounts describeSERVICE_ACCOUNT[GCLOUD_WIDE_FLAG …]
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- DESCRIPTION
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(BETA)This command shows metadata for a service account.This call can fail for the following reasons:
- The specified service account does not exist. In this case, you receive a
PERMISSION_DENIEDerror. - The active user does not have permission to access the given service account.
- The specified service account does not exist. In this case, you receive a
- EXAMPLES
- To print metadata for a service account from your project, run:
gcloud beta iam service-accounts describe my-iam-account@my-project.iam.gserviceaccount.com - POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS
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SERVICE_ACCOUNT - The service account to describe. The account should be formatted either as a numeric service account ID or as an email, like this: 123456789876543212345 or my-iam-account@somedomain.com.
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- 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 iam service-accounts describegcloud alpha iam service-accounts describe
gcloud beta iam service-accounts describe
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Last updated 2026-05-27 UTC.

