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instances51

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instanceGroups

POST /projects/{project}/zones/{zone}/instanceGroups/{instanceGroup}/removeInstances

Changed on Oct 30, 2026

Removes one or more instances from the specified instance group, but does not delete those instances.

If the group is part of a backend service that has enabled connection draining, it can take up to 60 seconds after the connection draining duration before the VM instance is removed or deleted.

Request

Base URL
https://compute.googleapis.com/compute/v1
URL
https://compute.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/{project}/zones/{zone}/instanceGroups/{instanceGroup}/removeInstances
Auth
- OAuth 2 and OAuth 2
  Implicit: https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth
  Scopes: https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform
  Authorization code: https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth
  Token URL: https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/token scopes: https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform
- or OAuth 2 and OAuth 2
  Implicit: https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth
  Scopes: https://www.googleapis.com/auth/compute
  Authorization code: https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth
  Token URL: https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/token scopes: https://www.googleapis.com/auth/compute

Path parameters

projectstring required

Project ID for this request.

zonestring required

The name of the zone where the instance group is located.

instanceGroupstring required

The name of the instance group where the specified instances will be removed.

Query parameters

requestIdstring

An optional request ID to identify requests. Specify a unique request ID so that if you must retry your request, the server will know to ignore the request if it has already been completed.

For example, consider a situation where you make an initial request and the request times out. If you make the request again with the same request ID, the server can check if original operation with the same request ID was received, and if so, will ignore the second request. This prevents clients from accidentally creating duplicate commitments.

The request ID must be a valid UUID with the exception that zero UUID is not supported (00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000).

Request body

Response

Successful response

clientOperationIdstring

[Output Only] The value of requestId if you provided it in the request. Not present otherwise.

creationTimestampstring

[Deprecated] This field is deprecated.

descriptionstring

[Output Only] A textual description of the operation, which is set when the operation is created.

endTimestring

[Output Only] The time that this operation was completed. This value is inRFC3339 text format.

httpErrorMessagestring

[Output Only] If the operation fails, this field contains the HTTP error message that was returned, such as NOT FOUND.

httpErrorStatusCodeinteger

[Output Only] If the operation fails, this field contains the HTTP error status code that was returned. For example, a 404 means the resource was not found.

idstring uint64

[Output Only] The unique identifier for the operation. This identifier is defined by the server.

insertTimestring

[Output Only] The time that this operation was requested. This value is inRFC3339 text format.

kindstring

Output only. [Output Only] Type of the resource. Always compute#operation for Operation resources.

namestring

[Output Only] Name of the operation.

operationGroupIdstring

Output only. [Output Only] An ID that represents a group of operations, such as when a group of operations results from a bulkInsert API request.

operationTypestring

[Output Only] The type of operation, such as insert, update, or delete, and so on.

progressinteger

[Output Only] An optional progress indicator that ranges from 0 to 100. There is no requirement that this be linear or support any granularity of operations. This should not be used to guess when the operation will be complete. This number should monotonically increase as the operation progresses.

regionstring

[Output Only] The URL of the region where the operation resides. Only applicable when performing regional operations.

selfLinkstring

[Output Only] Server-defined URL for the resource.

startTimestring

[Output Only] The time that this operation was started by the server. This value is inRFC3339 text format.

status'DONE' | 'PENDING' | 'RUNNING'

[Output Only] The status of the operation, which can be one of the following: PENDING, RUNNING, or DONE.

statusMessagestring

[Output Only] An optional textual description of the current status of the operation.

targetIdstring uint64

[Output Only] The unique target ID, which identifies a specific incarnation of the target resource.

targetLinkstring

[Output Only] The URL of the resource that the operation modifies. For operations related to creating a snapshot, this points to the disk that the snapshot was created from.

userstring

[Output Only] User who requested the operation, for example: user@example.com or alice_smith_identifier (global/workforcePools/example-com-us-employees).

zonestring

[Output Only] The URL of the zone where the operation resides. Only applicable when performing per-zone operations.

Changes

Oct 30, 20268b85e897d3dc Revision changes
- info
  the security scope https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform was added to the endpoint's security scheme Oauth2
- info
  the security scope https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform was added to the endpoint's security scheme Oauth2c
- info
  the security scope https://www.googleapis.com/auth/compute was removed from the endpoint's security scheme Oauth2
- info
  the security scope https://www.googleapis.com/auth/compute was removed from the endpoint's security scheme Oauth2c
Oct 23, 202648929bf89eeb Revision changes
- info
  the security scope https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform was added to the endpoint's security scheme Oauth2
- info
  the security scope https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform was added to the endpoint's security scheme Oauth2c
- info
  the security scope https://www.googleapis.com/auth/compute was removed from the endpoint's security scheme Oauth2
- info
  the security scope https://www.googleapis.com/auth/compute was removed from the endpoint's security scheme Oauth2c

Operation history (4 revisions)