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# gcp_memcache_instance{% #gcp_memcache_instance %}

## `ancestors`{% #ancestors %}

**Type**: `UNORDERED_LIST_STRING`

## `authorized_network`{% #authorized_network %}

**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `authorizedNetwork`**Description**: The full name of the Google Compute Engine [network](https://docs.datadoghq.com/compute/docs/networks-and-firewalls.md#networks) to which the instance is connected. If left unspecified, the `default` network will be used.

## `create_time`{% #create_time %}

**Type**: `TIMESTAMP`**Provider name**: `createTime`**Description**: Output only. The time the instance was created.

## `discovery_endpoint`{% #discovery_endpoint %}

**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `discoveryEndpoint`**Description**: Output only. Endpoint for the Discovery API.

## `gcp_display_name`{% #gcp_display_name %}

**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `displayName`**Description**: User provided name for the instance, which is only used for display purposes. Cannot be more than 80 characters.

## `instance_messages`{% #instance_messages %}

**Type**: `UNORDERED_LIST_STRUCT`**Provider name**: `instanceMessages`**Description**: List of messages that describe the current state of the Memcached instance.

- `code`**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `code`**Description**: A code that correspond to one type of user-facing message.**Possible values**:
  - `CODE_UNSPECIFIED` - Message Code not set.
  - `ZONE_DISTRIBUTION_UNBALANCED` - Memcached nodes are distributed unevenly.
- `message`**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `message`**Description**: Message on memcached instance which will be exposed to users.

## `labels`{% #labels %}

**Type**: `UNORDERED_LIST_STRING`

## `maintenance_policy`{% #maintenance_policy %}

**Type**: `STRUCT`**Provider name**: `maintenancePolicy`**Description**: The maintenance policy for the instance. If not provided, the maintenance event will be performed based on Memorystore internal rollout schedule.

- `create_time`**Type**: `TIMESTAMP`**Provider name**: `createTime`**Description**: Output only. The time when the policy was created.
- `description`**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `description`**Description**: Description of what this policy is for. Create/Update methods return INVALID_ARGUMENT if the length is greater than 512.
- `update_time`**Type**: `TIMESTAMP`**Provider name**: `updateTime`**Description**: Output only. The time when the policy was updated.
- `weekly_maintenance_window`**Type**: `UNORDERED_LIST_STRUCT`**Provider name**: `weeklyMaintenanceWindow`**Description**: Required. Maintenance window that is applied to resources covered by this policy. Minimum 1. For the current version, the maximum number of weekly_maintenance_windows is expected to be one.
  - `day`**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `day`**Description**: Required. Allows to define schedule that runs specified day of the week.**Possible values**:
    - `DAY_OF_WEEK_UNSPECIFIED` - The day of the week is unspecified.
    - `MONDAY` - Monday
    - `TUESDAY` - Tuesday
    - `WEDNESDAY` - Wednesday
    - `THURSDAY` - Thursday
    - `FRIDAY` - Friday
    - `SATURDAY` - Saturday
    - `SUNDAY` - Sunday
  - `duration`**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `duration`**Description**: Required. Duration of the time window.
  - `start_time`**Type**: `STRUCT`**Provider name**: `startTime`**Description**: Required. Start time of the window in UTC.
    - `hours`**Type**: `INT32`**Provider name**: `hours`**Description**: Hours of a day in 24 hour format. Must be greater than or equal to 0 and typically must be less than or equal to 23. An API may choose to allow the value "24:00:00" for scenarios like business closing time.
    - `minutes`**Type**: `INT32`**Provider name**: `minutes`**Description**: Minutes of an hour. Must be greater than or equal to 0 and less than or equal to 59.
    - `nanos`**Type**: `INT32`**Provider name**: `nanos`**Description**: Fractions of seconds, in nanoseconds. Must be greater than or equal to 0 and less than or equal to 999,999,999.
    - `seconds`**Type**: `INT32`**Provider name**: `seconds`**Description**: Seconds of a minute. Must be greater than or equal to 0 and typically must be less than or equal to 59. An API may allow the value 60 if it allows leap-seconds.

## `maintenance_schedule`{% #maintenance_schedule %}

**Type**: `STRUCT`**Provider name**: `maintenanceSchedule`**Description**: Output only. Published maintenance schedule.

- `end_time`**Type**: `TIMESTAMP`**Provider name**: `endTime`**Description**: Output only. The end time of any upcoming scheduled maintenance for this instance.
- `schedule_deadline_time`**Type**: `TIMESTAMP`**Provider name**: `scheduleDeadlineTime`**Description**: Output only. The deadline that the maintenance schedule start time can not go beyond, including reschedule.
- `start_time`**Type**: `TIMESTAMP`**Provider name**: `startTime`**Description**: Output only. The start time of any upcoming scheduled maintenance for this instance.

## `memcache_full_version`{% #memcache_full_version %}

**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `memcacheFullVersion`**Description**: Output only. The full version of memcached server running on this instance. System automatically determines the full memcached version for an instance based on the input MemcacheVersion. The full version format will be "memcached-1.5.16".

## `memcache_nodes`{% #memcache_nodes %}

**Type**: `UNORDERED_LIST_STRUCT`**Provider name**: `memcacheNodes`**Description**: Output only. List of Memcached nodes. Refer to Node message for more details.

- `host`**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `host`**Description**: Output only. Hostname or IP address of the Memcached node used by the clients to connect to the Memcached server on this node.
- `memcache_full_version`**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `memcacheFullVersion`**Description**: Output only. The full version of memcached server running on this node. e.g. - memcached-1.5.16
- `memcache_version`**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `memcacheVersion`**Description**: Output only. Major version of memcached server running on this node, e.g. MEMCACHE_1_5**Possible values**:
  - `MEMCACHE_VERSION_UNSPECIFIED` - Memcache version is not specified by customer
  - `MEMCACHE_1_5` - Memcached 1.5 version.
  - `MEMCACHE_1_6_15` - Memcached 1.6.15 version.
- `node_id`**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `nodeId`**Description**: Output only. Identifier of the Memcached node. The node id does not include project or location like the Memcached instance name.
- `parameters`**Type**: `STRUCT`**Provider name**: `parameters`**Description**: User defined parameters currently applied to the node.
  - `id`**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `id`**Description**: Output only. The unique ID associated with this set of parameters. Users can use this id to determine if the parameters associated with the instance differ from the parameters associated with the nodes. A discrepancy between parameter ids can inform users that they may need to take action to apply parameters on nodes.
- `port`**Type**: `INT32`**Provider name**: `port`**Description**: Output only. The port number of the Memcached server on this node.
- `state`**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `state`**Description**: Output only. Current state of the Memcached node.**Possible values**:
  - `STATE_UNSPECIFIED` - Node state is not set.
  - `CREATING` - Node is being created.
  - `READY` - Node has been created and ready to be used.
  - `DELETING` - Node is being deleted.
  - `UPDATING` - Node is being updated.
- `zone`**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `zone`**Description**: Output only. Location (GCP Zone) for the Memcached node.

## `memcache_version`{% #memcache_version %}

**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `memcacheVersion`**Description**: The major version of Memcached software. If not provided, latest supported version will be used. Currently the latest supported major version is `MEMCACHE_1_5`. The minor version will be automatically determined by our system based on the latest supported minor version.**Possible values**:

- `MEMCACHE_VERSION_UNSPECIFIED` - Memcache version is not specified by customer
- `MEMCACHE_1_5` - Memcached 1.5 version.
- `MEMCACHE_1_6_15` - Memcached 1.6.15 version.

## `name`{% #name %}

**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `name`**Description**: Required. Unique name of the resource in this scope including project and location using the form: `projects/{project_id}/locations/{location_id}/instances/{instance_id}` Note: Memcached instances are managed and addressed at the regional level so `location_id` here refers to a Google Cloud region; however, users may choose which zones Memcached nodes should be provisioned in within an instance. Refer to zones field for more details.

## `node_config`{% #node_config %}

**Type**: `STRUCT`**Provider name**: `nodeConfig`**Description**: Required. Configuration for Memcached nodes.

- `cpu_count`**Type**: `INT32`**Provider name**: `cpuCount`**Description**: Required. Number of cpus per Memcached node.
- `memory_size_mb`**Type**: `INT32`**Provider name**: `memorySizeMb`**Description**: Required. Memory size in MiB for each Memcached node.

## `node_count`{% #node_count %}

**Type**: `INT32`**Provider name**: `nodeCount`**Description**: Required. Number of nodes in the Memcached instance.

## `organization_id`{% #organization_id %}

**Type**: `STRING`

## `parameters`{% #parameters %}

**Type**: `STRUCT`**Provider name**: `parameters`**Description**: User defined parameters to apply to the memcached process on each node.

- `id`**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `id`**Description**: Output only. The unique ID associated with this set of parameters. Users can use this id to determine if the parameters associated with the instance differ from the parameters associated with the nodes. A discrepancy between parameter ids can inform users that they may need to take action to apply parameters on nodes.

## `parent`{% #parent %}

**Type**: `STRING`

## `project_id`{% #project_id %}

**Type**: `STRING`

## `project_number`{% #project_number %}

**Type**: `STRING`

## `region_id`{% #region_id %}

**Type**: `STRING`

## `reserved_ip_range_id`{% #reserved_ip_range_id %}

**Type**: `UNORDERED_LIST_STRING`**Provider name**: `reservedIpRangeId`**Description**: Optional. Contains the id of allocated IP address ranges associated with the private service access connection for example, "test-default" associated with IP range 10.0.0.0/29.

## `resource_name`{% #resource_name %}

**Type**: `STRING`

## `satisfies_pzi`{% #satisfies_pzi %}

**Type**: `BOOLEAN`**Provider name**: `satisfiesPzi`**Description**: Optional. Output only. Reserved for future use.

## `satisfies_pzs`{% #satisfies_pzs %}

**Type**: `BOOLEAN`**Provider name**: `satisfiesPzs`**Description**: Optional. Output only. Reserved for future use.

## `state`{% #state %}

**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `state`**Description**: Output only. The state of this Memcached instance.**Possible values**:

- `STATE_UNSPECIFIED` - State not set.
- `CREATING` - Memcached instance is being created.
- `READY` - Memcached instance has been created and ready to be used.
- `UPDATING` - Memcached instance is updating configuration such as maintenance policy and schedule.
- `DELETING` - Memcached instance is being deleted.
- `PERFORMING_MAINTENANCE` - Memcached instance is going through maintenance, e.g. data plane rollout.
- `MEMCACHE_VERSION_UPGRADING` - Memcached instance is undergoing memcached engine version upgrade.

## `tags`{% #tags %}

**Type**: `UNORDERED_LIST_STRING`

## `update_time`{% #update_time %}

**Type**: `TIMESTAMP`**Provider name**: `updateTime`**Description**: Output only. The time the instance was updated.

## `zone_id`{% #zone_id %}

**Type**: `STRING`

## `zones`{% #zones %}

**Type**: `UNORDERED_LIST_STRING`**Provider name**: `zones`**Description**: Zones in which Memcached nodes should be provisioned. Memcached nodes will be equally distributed across these zones. If not provided, the service will by default create nodes in all zones in the region for the instance.