gcloud alpha compute instances send-diagnostic-interrupt - send a diagnostic interrupt to a virtual machine instance
gcloud alpha compute instances send-diagnostic-interrupt INSTANCE_NAME [--zone=ZONE] [GCLOUD_WIDE_FLAG ...]
(ALPHA) gcloud alpha compute instances send-diagnostic-interrupt is 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).
To send a diagnostic interrupt to an instance named test-instance, run:
$ gcloud alpha compute instances send-diagnostic-interrupt \ test-instance
- 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
- --zone=ZONE
Zone of the instance to operate on. If not specified, you might be prompted to select a zone (interactive mode only). gcloud attempts to identify the appropriate zone by searching for resources in your currently active project. If the zone cannot be determined, gcloud prompts 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/zone property:
$ gcloud config set compute/zone ZONE
A list of zones can be fetched by running:
$ gcloud compute zones list
To unset the property, run:
$ gcloud config unset compute/zone
Alternatively, the zone can be stored in the environment variable CLOUDSDK_COMPUTE_ZONE.
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 help for details.
This command is currently in alpha and might 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-interrupt
$ gcloud beta compute instances send-diagnostic-interrupt