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title: Getting Started with Datadog
description: Datadog, the leading service for cloud-scale monitoring.
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# gcp_compute_target_instance{% #gcp_compute_target_instance %}

## `ancestors`{% #ancestors %}

**Type**: `UNORDERED_LIST_STRING`

## `creation_timestamp`{% #creation_timestamp %}

**Type**: `TIMESTAMP`**Provider name**: `creationTimestamp`**Description**: [Output Only] Creation timestamp in RFC3339 text format.

## `description`{% #description %}

**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `description`**Description**: An optional description of this resource. Provide this property when you create the resource.

## `id`{% #id %}

**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `id`**Description**: [Output Only] The unique identifier for the resource. This identifier is defined by the server.

## `instance`{% #instance %}

**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `instance`**Description**: A URL to the virtual machine instance that handles traffic for this target instance. When creating a target instance, you can provide the fully-qualified URL or a valid partial URL to the desired virtual machine. For example, the following are all valid URLs: - [https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/project/zones/zone](https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/project/zones/zone) /instances/instance - projects/project/zones/zone/instances/instance - zones/zone/instances/instance

## `kind`{% #kind %}

**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `kind`**Description**: [Output Only] The type of the resource. Always compute#targetInstance for target instances.

## `labels`{% #labels %}

**Type**: `UNORDERED_LIST_STRING`

## `name`{% #name %}

**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `name`**Description**: Name of the resource. Provided by the client when the resource is created. The name must be 1-63 characters long, and comply with RFC1035. Specifically, the name must be 1-63 characters long and match the regular expression `[a-z]([-a-z0-9]*[a-z0-9])?` which means the first character must be a lowercase letter, and all following characters must be a dash, lowercase letter, or digit, except the last character, which cannot be a dash.

## `nat_policy`{% #nat_policy %}

**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `natPolicy`**Description**: Must have a value of NO_NAT. Protocol forwarding delivers packets while preserving the destination IP address of the forwarding rule referencing the target instance.**Possible values**:

- `NO_NAT` - No NAT performed.

## `network`{% #network %}

**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `network`**Description**: The URL of the network this target instance uses to forward traffic. If not specified, the traffic will be forwarded to the network that the default network interface belongs to.

## `organization_id`{% #organization_id %}

**Type**: `STRING`

## `parent`{% #parent %}

**Type**: `STRING`

## `project_id`{% #project_id %}

**Type**: `STRING`

## `project_number`{% #project_number %}

**Type**: `STRING`

## `region_id`{% #region_id %}

**Type**: `STRING`

## `resource_name`{% #resource_name %}

**Type**: `STRING`

## `security_policy`{% #security_policy %}

**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `securityPolicy`**Description**: [Output Only] The resource URL for the security policy associated with this target instance.

## `self_link`{% #self_link %}

**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `selfLink`**Description**: [Output Only] Server-defined URL for the resource.

## `tags`{% #tags %}

**Type**: `UNORDERED_LIST_STRING`

## `zone`{% #zone %}

**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `zone`**Description**: [Output Only] URL of the zone where the target instance resides. You must specify this field as part of the HTTP request URL. It is not settable as a field in the request body.

## `zone_id`{% #zone_id %}

**Type**: `STRING`