Method: machineTypes.get

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Response body
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Returns the specified machine type.

HTTP request

GET https://compute.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/{project}/zones/{zone}/machineTypes/{machineType}

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

Parameters
`project`	`string` Project ID for this request.
`zone`	`string` The name of the zone for this request.
`machineType`	`string` Name of the machine type to return.

project

string

Project ID for this request.

zone

string

The name of the zone for this request.

machineType

string

Name of the machine type to return.

Request body

The request body must be empty.

Response body

Represents a Machine Type resource.

You can use specific machine types for your VM instances based on performance and pricing requirements. For more information, read Machine Types .

If successful, the response body contains data with the following structure:

JSON representation
{ "kind" : string , "id" : string , "creationTimestamp" : string , "name" : string , "description" : string , "guestCpus" : integer , "memoryMb" : integer , "imageSpaceGb" : integer , "maximumPersistentDisks" : integer , "maximumPersistentDisksSizeGb" : string , "deprecated" : { "state" : enum , "replacement" : string , "deprecated" : string , "obsolete" : string , "deleted" : string } , "zone" : string , "selfLink" : string , "isSharedCpu" : boolean , "accelerators" : [ { "guestAcceleratorType" : string , "guestAcceleratorCount" : integer } ] , "architecture" : enum }

JSON representation

 { 
 "kind" 
 : 
 string 
 , 
 "id" 
 : 
 string 
 , 
 "creationTimestamp" 
 : 
 string 
 , 
 "name" 
 : 
 string 
 , 
 "description" 
 : 
 string 
 , 
 "guestCpus" 
 : 
 integer 
 , 
 "memoryMb" 
 : 
 integer 
 , 
 "imageSpaceGb" 
 : 
 integer 
 , 
 "maximumPersistentDisks" 
 : 
 integer 
 , 
 "maximumPersistentDisksSizeGb" 
 : 
 string 
 , 
 "deprecated" 
 : 
 { 
 "state" 
 : 
 enum 
 , 
 "replacement" 
 : 
 string 
 , 
 "deprecated" 
 : 
 string 
 , 
 "obsolete" 
 : 
 string 
 , 
 "deleted" 
 : 
 string 
 } 
 , 
 "zone" 
 : 
 string 
 , 
 "selfLink" 
 : 
 string 
 , 
 "isSharedCpu" 
 : 
 boolean 
 , 
 "accelerators" 
 : 
 [ 
 { 
 "guestAcceleratorType" 
 : 
 string 
 , 
 "guestAcceleratorCount" 
 : 
 integer 
 } 
 ] 
 , 
 "architecture" 
 : 
 enum 
 }

Fields
`kind`	`string` [Output Only] The type of the resource. Always `compute#machineType` for machine types.
`id`	`string ( uint64 format)` [Output Only] The unique identifier for the resource. This identifier is defined by the server.
`creationTimestamp`	`string` [Output Only] Creation timestamp in RFC3339 text format.
`name`	`string` [Output Only] Name of the resource.
`description`	`string` [Output Only] An optional textual description of the resource.
`guestCpus`	`integer` [Output Only] The number of virtual CPUs that are available to the instance.
`memoryMb`	`integer` [Output Only] The amount of physical memory available to the instance, defined in MB.
`imageSpaceGb`	`integer` [Deprecated] This property is deprecated and will never be populated with any relevant values.
`maximumPersistentDisks`	`integer` [Output Only] Maximum persistent disks allowed.
`maximumPersistentDisksSizeGb`	`string ( int64 format)` [Output Only] Maximum total persistent disks size (GB) allowed.
`deprecated`	`object` [Output Only] The deprecation status associated with this machine type. Only applicable if the machine type is unavailable.
`deprecated.state`	`enum` The deprecation state of this resource. This can be `ACTIVE` , `DEPRECATED` , `OBSOLETE` , or `DELETED` . Operations which communicate the end of life date for an image, can use `ACTIVE` . Operations which create a new resource using a `DEPRECATED` resource will return successfully, but with a warning indicating the deprecated resource and recommending its replacement. Operations which use `OBSOLETE` or `DELETED` resources will be rejected and result in an error.
`deprecated.replacement`	`string` The URL of the suggested replacement for a deprecated resource. The suggested replacement resource must be the same kind of resource as the deprecated resource.
`deprecated.deprecated`	`string` An optional RFC3339 timestamp on or after which the state of this resource is intended to change to `DEPRECATED` . This is only informational and the status will not change unless the client explicitly changes it.
`deprecated.obsolete`	`string` An optional RFC3339 timestamp on or after which the state of this resource is intended to change to `OBSOLETE` . This is only informational and the status will not change unless the client explicitly changes it.
`deprecated.deleted`	`string` An optional RFC3339 timestamp on or after which the state of this resource is intended to change to `DELETED` . This is only informational and the status will not change unless the client explicitly changes it.
`zone`	`string` [Output Only] The name of the zone where the machine type resides, such as us-central1-a.
`selfLink`	`string` [Output Only] Server-defined URL for the resource.
`isSharedCpu`	`boolean` [Output Only] Whether this machine type has a shared CPU. See Shared-core machine types for more information.
`accelerators[]`	`object` [Output Only] A list of accelerator configurations assigned to this machine type.
`accelerators[].guestAcceleratorType`	`string` The accelerator type resource name, not a full URL, e.g. `nvidia-tesla-t4` .
`accelerators[].guestAcceleratorCount`	`integer` Number of accelerator cards exposed to the guest.
`architecture`	`enum` [Output Only] The architecture of the machine type.

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.machineTypes.get

To find predefined roles that contain those permissions, see Compute Engine IAM Roles .