- NAME
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- gcloud preview compute target-pools add-health-checks - add a legacy HTTP health check to a target pool
- SYNOPSIS
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gcloud preview compute target-pools add-health-checksNAME--http-health-check=HTTP_HEALTH_CHECK[--region=REGION] [GCLOUD_WIDE_FLAG …]
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- DESCRIPTION
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(PREVIEW)gcloud preview compute target-pools add-health-checksis used to add a legacy HTTP health check to a target pool. Legacy health checks are used to determine the health status of instances in the target pool. Only one health check can be attached to a target pool, so this command will fail if there as already a health check attached to the target pool. For more information on health checks and load balancing, see https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/load-balancing-and-autoscaling/ - POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS
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NAME - The name of the target pool to which to add the health check.
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- REQUIRED FLAGS
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--http-health-check=HTTP_HEALTH_CHECK - Specifies an HTTP health check object to add to the target pool.
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- OPTIONAL FLAGS
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--region=REGION - Region of the target pool to add health checks to. If not specified, you might
be prompted to select a region (interactive mode only).
To avoid prompting when this flag is omitted, you can set the
compute/regiongcloud config set compute/region REGIONA list of regions can be fetched by running:
gcloud compute regions listTo unset the property, run:
gcloud config unset compute/regionAlternatively, the region can be stored in the environment variable
CLOUDSDK_COMPUTE_REGION
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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 DEVELOPER PREVIEW and may change without notice. If
this command fails with API permission errors despite specifying the correct
project, you might be trying to access an API with an invitation-only early
access allowlist. These variants are also available:
gcloud compute target-pools add-health-checksgcloud alpha compute target-pools add-health-checksgcloud beta compute target-pools add-health-checks
gcloud preview compute target-pools add-health-checks
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Last updated 2026-05-27 UTC.
