gcloud compute health-checks describe (original) (raw)

gcloud compute health-checks describe

NAME

gcloud compute health-checks describe - display detailed information about a health check

SYNOPSIS

gcloud compute health-checks describe [NAME](#NAME) [[--global](#--global) | [--region](#--region)=REGION] [[GCLOUD_WIDE_FLAG](#GCLOUD-WIDE-FLAGS) …]

DESCRIPTION

gcloud compute health-checks describe displays all data associated with a Google Compute Engine health check in a project.

POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS

NAME

Name of the health check to describe.

FLAGS

At most one of these can be specified:

--global

If set, the health check is global.

--region=REGION

Region of the health check to describe. 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/region` property:

gcloud config set compute/region REGION

A list of regions can be fetched by running:

gcloud compute regions list

To unset the property, run:

gcloud config unset compute/region

Alternatively, the region can be stored in the environment variable`CLOUDSDK_COMPUTE_REGION`.

GCLOUD WIDE FLAGS

These flags are available to all commands: [--access-token-file](/sdk/gcloud/reference#--access-token-file),[--account](/sdk/gcloud/reference#--account), [--billing-project](/sdk/gcloud/reference#--billing-project),[--configuration](/sdk/gcloud/reference#--configuration),[--flags-file](/sdk/gcloud/reference#--flags-file),[--flatten](/sdk/gcloud/reference#--flatten), [--format](/sdk/gcloud/reference#--format), [--help](/sdk/gcloud/reference#--help), [--impersonate-service-account](/sdk/gcloud/reference#--impersonate-service-account),[--log-http](/sdk/gcloud/reference#--log-http),[--project](/sdk/gcloud/reference#--project), [--quiet](/sdk/gcloud/reference#--quiet), [--trace-token](/sdk/gcloud/reference#--trace-token), [--user-output-enabled](/sdk/gcloud/reference#--user-output-enabled),[--verbosity](/sdk/gcloud/reference#--verbosity).

Run $ [gcloud help](/sdk/gcloud/reference) for details.

NOTES

These variants are also available:

gcloud alpha compute health-checks describe

gcloud beta compute health-checks describe

gcloud preview compute health-checks describe

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Last updated 2026-05-27 UTC.