Getting a list of VM instances in a group
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Updated at February 12, 2025
After creating an instance group, you can get a list of instances in the group.
To get a list of VM instances:
Management console
CLI
API
- In the management console, open the folder containing the instance group in question.
- Select Compute Cloud.
- In the left-hand panel, select Instance groups.
- Select the group.
- Go to the Virtual machines tab.
If you do not have the Yandex Cloud CLI yet, install and initialize it.
The folder specified in the CLI profile is used by default. You can specify a different folder through the --folder-name or --folder-id parameter.
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See the description of the CLI command for getting a list of VM instances:
yc compute instance-group list-instances --help -
Get a list of instance groups in the default folder:
yc compute instance-group listResult:
+----------------------+-----------------------+------+ | ID | NAME | SIZE | +----------------------+-----------------------+------+ | amc65sbgfqeq******** | first-instance-group | 2 | +----------------------+-----------------------+------+ -
Select
IDorNAMEof the group in question, e.g.,first-instance-group. -
Get information about the instance group:
yc compute instance-group list-instances --name first-instance-group
Use the listInstances REST API method for the InstanceGroup resource or the InstanceGroupService/ListInstances gRPC API call.