Asset types

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

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

• Export to BigQuery

• Export to Cloud Storage

• List assets

• Search for resources

• Search resources for IAM allow policies

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, and search 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. To learn more, see Cloud Asset Inventory's consistency model.

Unless noted in the following table, data is synchronized once every few hours. If a sync fails, data freshness is delayed until the next successful sync.

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

Service	Asset type
Agent Identity API	API reference agentidentity.googleapis.com/AuthProvider Not available in the analysis APIs.
App Design Center	API reference designcenter.googleapis.com/Application Effective tags aren't supported. designcenter.googleapis.com/ApplicationTemplateRevision Effective tags aren't supported. designcenter.googleapis.com/Component Effective tags aren't supported. designcenter.googleapis.com/Connection Effective tags aren't supported. designcenter.googleapis.com/SharedTemplate Effective tags aren't supported. designcenter.googleapis.com/SharedTemplateRevision Effective tags aren't supported.
Fault Injection Testing	faulttesting.googleapis.com/Experiment Not available in the analysis APIs. faulttesting.googleapis.com/ExperimentTemplate Not available in the analysis APIs. faulttesting.googleapis.com/Validation Not available in the analysis APIs.
Google Cloud Migration Center	API reference migrationcenter.googleapis.com/Asset Not available in the analysis APIs. migrationcenter.googleapis.com/CostAssessmentJob Not available in the analysis APIs. migrationcenter.googleapis.com/DiscoveryClient Effective tags aren't supported. Not available in the analysis APIs. migrationcenter.googleapis.com/Group Effective tags aren't supported. Not available in the analysis APIs. migrationcenter.googleapis.com/ImportJob Effective tags aren't supported. Not available in the analysis APIs. migrationcenter.googleapis.com/PreferenceSet Effective tags aren't supported. Not available in the analysis APIs. migrationcenter.googleapis.com/ReportConfig Effective tags aren't supported. Not available in the analysis APIs. migrationcenter.googleapis.com/Settings Effective tags aren't supported. Not available in the analysis APIs. migrationcenter.googleapis.com/Source Effective tags aren't supported. Not available in the analysis APIs.

Policy types

Cloud Asset Inventory uses the following asset types for the ACCESS_POLICY, IAM_POLICY, and ORG_POLICY content types.

Service	Asset type
Access policy (VPC Service Controls policy)	API reference Supported policy parent cloudresourcemanager.googleapis.com/Organization Not available in the analysis APIs. Supported policy scope cloudresourcemanager.googleapis.com/Folder Not available in the analysis APIs. cloudresourcemanager.googleapis.com/Organization Not available in the analysis APIs. cloudresourcemanager.googleapis.com/Project Not available in the analysis APIs.
Organization policy	API reference Supported resource types that organization policies can be attached to: cloudresourcemanager.googleapis.com/Folder cloudresourcemanager.googleapis.com/Organization cloudresourcemanager.googleapis.com/Project