Asset types

This document lists the supported asset types in Cloud Asset Inventory. These include resource types, policy types, and runtime information types.

You can use these asset types with the following Cloud Asset Inventory operations:

You might also need to make use of asset names associated with these asset types when working with Cloud Asset Inventory.

Unless otherwise specified, all resource types are available in the export, list, monitor, search, and analysis APIs. Effective tags are supported only in the search APIs.

Resource types

Cloud Asset Inventory provides eventual consistency on current data and best-effort consistency on historical data. While rare, it's possible that Cloud Asset Inventory can miss some data updates.

Unless noted in the following table, almost all asset updates are available in minutes.

Cloud Asset Inventory uses the following asset types for the RESOURCE content type.

Service Asset type

Access Approval

API reference

Access Policy (Access Context Manager)

To retrieve all access policies in the export, list, and monitor APIs:

  • REST: Set the contentType to ACCESS_POLICY.
  • gcloud CLI: Set the --content-type flag to access-policy.