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.

AI Commerce Search API

API reference

AlloyDB for PostgreSQL

API reference

API Gateway

API reference

API keys

The location field might not be populated for API keys assets.

API reference

Apigee

API reference

Apigee API hub

API reference

App Design Center

API reference

App Engine

The location field might not be populated for App Engine assets.

API reference

App Hub

API reference

App Lifecycle Manager

API reference

Application Integration

API reference

Artifact Registry

API reference

Assured Workloads

API reference

Backup and DR Service

API reference

Backup for GKE

API reference

Batch

API reference

BigQuery

API reference

BigQuery Data Transfer Service

BigQuery Data Transfer Service asset change history might be incomplete. Data freshness is synchronized every 7 hours. If a sync fails, freshness is delayed until the next successful sync.

API reference

BigQuery Migration Service

API reference

BigQuery Reservation API

API reference

BigQuery sharing

API reference

Bigtable

API reference

Binary Authorization

API reference

Blockchain Node Engine

API reference

Certificate Authority Service

API reference

Certificate Manager

API reference

Chrome Enterprise Premium

API reference

Cloud Asset Inventory

API reference

Cloud Billing