- NAME
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- gcloud preview compute instances send-diagnostic-interrupt - send a diagnostic interrupt to a virtual machine instance
- SYNOPSIS
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gcloud preview compute instances send-diagnostic-interruptINSTANCE_NAME[--zone=ZONE] [GCLOUD_WIDE_FLAG …]
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- DESCRIPTION
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(PREVIEW)gcloud preview compute instances send-diagnostic-interruptis used to send a diagnostic interrupt to a running instance, which triggers special interrupt handling logic inside VM.For instances with Intel or AMD processors, the guest OS on the instance will receive a non-maskable interrupt (NMI).
- EXAMPLES
- To send a diagnostic interrupt to an instance named
test-instancegcloud preview compute instances send-diagnostic-interrupt test-instance - POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS
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INSTANCE_NAME - Name of the instance to operate on. For details on valid instance names, refer to the criteria documented under the field 'name' at: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/instances
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- FLAGS
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--zone=ZONE - Zone of the instance to operate on. If not specified, you might be prompted to
select a zone (interactive mode only).
gcloudattempts to identify the appropriate zone by searching for resources in your currently active project. If the zone cannot be determined,gcloudprompts you for a selection with all available Google Cloud Platform zones.To avoid prompting when this flag is omitted, the user can set the
compute/zonegcloud config set compute/zone ZONEA list of zones can be fetched by running:
gcloud compute zones listTo unset the property, run:
gcloud config unset compute/zoneAlternatively, the zone can be stored in the environment variable
CLOUDSDK_COMPUTE_ZONE
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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 instances send-diagnostic-interruptgcloud alpha compute instances send-diagnostic-interruptgcloud beta compute instances send-diagnostic-interrupt
gcloud preview compute instances send-diagnostic-interrupt
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Last updated 2026-05-27 UTC.
