---
title: "Get a Consume Policy for Virtual Cluster"
method: GET
path: "/v1/event-gateways/{gatewayId}/virtual-clusters/{virtualClusterId}/consume-policies/{policyId}"
tags: ["Event Gateway Virtual Cluster Consume Policies"]
---

# Get a Consume Policy for Virtual Cluster

`GET /v1/event-gateways/{gatewayId}/virtual-clusters/{virtualClusterId}/consume-policies/{policyId}`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://global.api.konghq.com`
- URL: `https://global.api.konghq.com/v1/event-gateways/{gatewayId}/virtual-clusters/{virtualClusterId}/consume-policies/{policyId}`
- Auth: one of:
  - HTTP bearer
  - HTTP bearer
  - HTTP bearer
  - HTTP bearer

Returns information about a specific consume policy associated with the Event Gateway virtual cluster.

## Response `200`

A single consume policy object.

- EventGatewayPolicy: A policy associated with an Event Gateway.
  - `type` string, required: The type name of the policy.
  - `name` string: A unique user-defined name of the policy.
  - `description` string: A human-readable description of the policy.
  - `enabled` boolean: Whether the policy is enabled.
  - `labels` Labels: Labels store metadata of an entity that can be used for filtering an entity list or for searching across entity types. Keys must be of length 1-63 characters, and cannot start with "kong", "konnect", "mesh", "kic", or "_".
  - `id` string, uuid, required: The unique identifier of the policy.
  - `config` object: The configuration of the policy.
  - `created_at` string, date-time, required: An ISO-8601 timestamp representation of entity creation date.
  - `parent_policy_id` string, uuid, nullable: The unique identifier of the parent policy, if any.
  - `updated_at` string, date-time, required: An ISO-8601 timestamp representation of entity update date.
  - `condition` string: A string containing the boolean expression that determines whether the policy is applied.

## Other responses

- `401`: Unauthorized
- `403`: Forbidden
- `404`: Not Found

## Changes

- **2026-09-25** `68d43091b84d`: 2 warning
  - added the new `403.00` enum value to the `status` response property for the response status `403`
  - added the new `404.00` enum value to the `status` response property for the response status `404`
- **2026-09-18** `f324fb7610e4`: 2 breaking, 17 info
  - the response's body type changed from no type to `object` for status `403`
  - the response's body type changed from no type to `object` for status `404`
  - removed `#/components/schemas/BaseError, subschema #2` from the response body `allOf` list for the response status `401`
  - removed `#/components/schemas/BaseError, subschema #2` from the response body `allOf` list for the response status `403`
  - …15 more
- **2026-01-20** `7bc7400170e0`: 2 info
  - the `condition` response's property default value `` was added for the status `200`
  - the `description` response's property default value `` was added for the status `200`
- **2026-01-13** `ce5210e21830`: 2 breaking
  - the `condition` response property's minLength was decreased from `1` to `0` for the response status `200`
  - the `name` response property's minLength was decreased from `1` to `0` for the response status `200`
- **2026-01-07** `41f50b46b442`: 1 breaking
  - the response property `config` became optional for the status `200`

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/kong/apis/konnect-api-go-sdk/changes/v1/event-gateways/:gatewayId/virtual-clusters/:virtualClusterId/consume-policies/:policyId/get.md)

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