In this article, I will walk you through the syntax and usage of the az vm show Azure CLI command with certain examples.
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az vm show
This command helps you to get the details of an Azure VM.
Syntax
az vm show [--ids] [--name][--resource-group]Example
The below command helps you to show information about an Azure VM named AzurelessonsNewVM that belongs to the newresgroup Resource group.
az vm show -g newresgroup -n AzurelessonsNewVM -dAfter executing the above command, I got the expected output as shown below.
{
"additionalCapabilities": {
"hibernationEnabled": false,
"ultraSsdEnabled": null
},
"applicationProfile": null,
"availabilitySet": null,
"billingProfile": null,
"capacityReservation": null,
"diagnosticsProfile": {
"bootDiagnostics": {
"enabled": true,
"storageUri": null
}
},
"etag": "\"20\"",
"evictionPolicy": null,
"extendedLocation": null,
"extensionsTimeBudget": null,
"fqdns": "",
"hardwareProfile": {
"vmSize": "Standard_B1ms",
"vmSizeProperties": null
},
"host": null,
"hostGroup": null,
"id": "/subscriptions/1cdf4300-dee5-4518-9c9c-feaa72a5cbd1/resourceGroups/newresgroup/providers/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/AzurelessonsNewVM",
"identity": null,
"licenseType": null,
"location": "centralus",
"macAddresses": "60-45-BD-33-93-6E",
"managedBy": null,
"name": "AzurelessonsNewVM",
"networkProfile": {
"networkApiVersion": null,
"networkInterfaceConfigurations": null,
"networkInterfaces": [
{
"deleteOption": "Detach",
"id": "/subscriptions/1cdf4300-dee5-4518-9c9c-feaa72a5cbd1/resourceGroups/newresgroup/providers/Microsoft.Network/networkInterfaces/azurelessonsnewvm477_z1",
"primary": null,
"resourceGroup": "newresgroup"
}
]
},
"osProfile": {
"adminPassword": null,
"adminUsername": "Rajkishore",
"allowExtensionOperations": true,
"computerName": "AzurelessonsNewVM",
"customData": null,
"linuxConfiguration": {
"disablePasswordAuthentication": false,
"enableVmAgentPlatformUpdates": null,
"patchSettings": {
"assessmentMode": "ImageDefault",
"automaticByPlatformSettings": null,
"patchMode": "ImageDefault"
},
"provisionVmAgent": true,
"ssh": null
},
"requireGuestProvisionSignal": true,
"secrets": [],
"windowsConfiguration": null
},
"plan": null,
"platformFaultDomain": null,
"powerState": "VM stopped",
"priority": null,
"privateIps": "10.0.0.4",
"provisioningState": "Succeeded",
"proximityPlacementGroup": null,
"publicIps": "20.15.226.75",
"resourceGroup": "newresgroup",
"resources": null,
"scheduledEventsPolicy": null,
"scheduledEventsProfile": null,
"securityProfile": {
"encryptionAtHost": null,
"encryptionIdentity": null,
"proxyAgentSettings": null,
"securityType": "TrustedLaunch",
"uefiSettings": {
"secureBootEnabled": true,
"vTpmEnabled": true
}
},
"storageProfile": {
"dataDisks": [],
"diskControllerType": "SCSI",
"imageReference": {
"communityGalleryImageId": null,
"exactVersion": "20.04.202501110",
"id": null,
"offer": "0001-com-ubuntu-server-focal",
"publisher": "canonical",
"sharedGalleryImageId": null,
"sku": "20_04-lts-gen2",
"version": "latest"
},
"osDisk": {
"caching": "ReadWrite",
"createOption": "FromImage",
"deleteOption": "Delete",
"diffDiskSettings": null,
"diskSizeGb": 30,
"encryptionSettings": null,
"image": null,
"managedDisk": {
"diskEncryptionSet": null,
"id": "/subscriptions/1cdf4300-dee5-4518-9c9c-feaa72a5cbd1/resourceGroups/NEWRESGROUP/providers/Microsoft.Compute/disks/AzurelessonsNewVM_OsDisk_1_3ded8e6ecd4a4ff39343f870c03502cf",
"resourceGroup": "NEWRESGROUP",
"securityProfile": null,
"storageAccountType": "Premium_LRS"
},
"name": "AzurelessonsNewVM_OsDisk_1_3ded8e6ecd4a4ff39343f870c03502cf",
"osType": "Linux",
"vhd": null,
"writeAcceleratorEnabled": null
}
},
"tags": null,
"timeCreated": "2025-02-04T06:19:34.034169+00:00",
"type": "Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines",
"userData": null,
"virtualMachineScaleSet": null,
"vmId": "6d1499c4-8557-408d-b9f8-2ab25fcd34d0",
"zones": [
"1"
]
}You can see the same output as shown in the screenshot shown below.
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