- HTTP request
- Path parameters
- Request body
- Response body
- Authorization scopes
- IAM Permissions
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returns the specified SnapshotGroup resource.
HTTP request
GET https://compute.googleapis.com/compute/beta/projects/{project}/global/snapshotGroups/{snapshotGroup}
The URL uses gRPC Transcoding syntax. To know more about valid error responses that can be thrown by this HTTP request, please refer to the service error catalog
Path parameters
| Parameters | |
|---|---|
project
|
Project ID for this request. |
snapshotGroup
|
Name of the SnapshotGroup resource to return. |
Request body
The request body must be empty.
Response body
Represents a SnapshotGroup resource.
A snapshot group is a set of snapshots that represents a point in time state of a consistency group.
If successful, the response body contains data with the following structure:
| JSON representation |
|---|
{ "kind" : string , "name" : string , "description" : string , "id" : string , "status" : enum , "creationTimestamp" : string , "sourceInfo" : { "consistencyGroup" : string , "consistencyGroupId" : string } , "sourceInstantSnapshotGroupInfo" : { "instantSnapshotGroup" : string , "instantSnapshotGroupId" : string } , "sourceInstantSnapshotGroup" : string , "selfLink" : string , "selfLinkWithId" : string } |
| Fields | |
|---|---|
kind
|
Output only. Type of the resource. Always |
name
|
Identifier. Name of the resource; provided by the client when the resource is created. The name must be 1-63 characters long, and comply with RFC1035
. Specifically, the name must be 1-63 characters long and match the regular expression |
description
|
Optional. An optional description of this resource. Provide this property when you create the resource. |
id
|
Output only. The unique identifier for the resource. This identifier is defined by the server. |
status
|
Output only. |
creationTimestamp
|
Output only. Creation timestamp in RFC3339 text format. |
sourceInfo
|
Output only. |
sourceInfo.consistencyGroup
|
|
sourceInfo.consistencyGroupId
|
|
sourceInstantSnapshotGroupInfo
|
Output only. |
sourceInstantSnapshotGroupInfo.instantSnapshotGroup
|
|
sourceInstantSnapshotGroupInfo.instantSnapshotGroupId
|
|
sourceInstantSnapshotGroup
|
Input field for the source instant snapshot group. |
selfLink
|
Output only. Server-defined URL for the resource. |
selfLinkWithId
|
Output only. Server-defined URL for this resource's resource id. |
Authorization scopes
Requires one of the following OAuth scopes:
-
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/compute.readonly -
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/compute -
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform
For more information, see the Authentication Overview .
IAM Permissions
In addition to any permissions specified on the fields above, authorization requires one or more of the following IAM permissions:
-
compute.snapshotGroups.get
To find predefined roles that contain those permissions, see Compute Engine IAM Roles .

