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DigitalOcean-public.v2-new_Droplets

Retrieve an Existing Droplet

To show information about an individual Droplet, send a GET request to /v2/droplets/$DROPLET_ID.

get/v2/droplets/{droplet_id}

Path parameters

droplet_idinteger required

A unique identifier for a Droplet instance.

Response

The response will be a JSON object with a key called droplet. This will be set to a JSON object that contains the standard Droplet attributes.

Example response

{
  "droplet": {
    "id": 3164444,
    "name": "example.com",
    "memory": 1024,
    "vcpus": 1,
    "disk": 25,
    "disk_info": [
      {
        "type": "local",
        "size": {
          "amount": 25,
          "unit": "gib"
        }
      }
    ],
    "status": "active",
    "kernel": {
      "id": 7515,
      "name": "DigitalOcean GrubLoader v0.2 (20160714)",
      "version": "2016.07.13-DigitalOcean_loader_Ubuntu"
    },
    "created_at": "2020-07-21T18:37:44Z",
    "features": [
      "backups",
      "private_networking",
      "ipv6"
    ],
    "backup_ids": [
      53893572
    ],
    "next_backup_window": {
      "start": "2019-12-04T00:00:00Z",
      "end": "2019-12-04T23:00:00Z"
    },
    "snapshot_ids": [
      67512819
    ],
    "image": {
      "id": 7555620,
      "name": "Nifty New Snapshot",
      "type": "snapshot",
      "distribution": "Ubuntu",
      "slug": "nifty1",
      "public": true,
      "regions": [
        "nyc1",
        "nyc2"
      ],
      "created_at": "2020-05-04T22:23:02Z",
      "min_disk_size": 20,
      "size_gigabytes": 2.34,
      "description": " ",
      "tags": [
        "base-image",
        "prod"
      ],
      "status": "NEW",
      "error_message": " "
    },
    "volume_ids": [
      "506f78a4-e098-11e5-ad9f-000f53306ae1"
    ],
    "size": {
      "slug": "s-1vcpu-1gb",
      "memory": 1024,
      "vcpus": 1,
      "disk": 25,
      "transfer": 1,
      "price_monthly": 5,
      "price_hourly": 0.00743999984115362,
      "regions": [
        "ams2",
        "ams3",
        "blr1",
        "fra1",
        "lon1",
        "nyc1",
        "nyc2",
        "nyc3",
        "sfo1",
        "sfo2",
        "sfo3",
        "sgp1",
        "tor1"
      ],
      "available": true,
      "description": "Basic",
      "disk_info": [
        {
          "type": "local",
          "size": {
            "amount": 25,
            "unit": "gib"
          }
        }
      ],
      "gpu_info": {
        "count": 1,
        "model": "nvidia_h100",
        "vram": {
          "amount": 25,
          "unit": "gib"
        }
      }
    },
    "size_slug": "s-1vcpu-1gb",
    "networks": {
      "v4": [
        {
          "ip_address": "104.236.32.182",
          "netmask": "255.255.192.0",
          "gateway": "104.236.0.1",
          "type": "public"
        }
      ],
      "v6": [
        {
          "ip_address": "2604:a880:0:1010::18a:a001",
          "netmask": 64,
          "gateway": "2604:a880:0:1010::1",
          "type": "public"
        }
      ]
    },
    "region": {
      "name": "New York 3",
      "slug": "nyc3",
      "features": [
        "private_networking",
        "backups",
        "ipv6",
        "metadata",
        "install_agent",
        "storage",
        "image_transfer"
      ],
      "available": true,
      "sizes": [
        "s-1vcpu-1gb",
        "s-1vcpu-2gb",
        "s-1vcpu-3gb",
        "s-2vcpu-2gb",
        "s-3vcpu-1gb",
        "s-2vcpu-4gb",
        "s-4vcpu-8gb",
        "s-6vcpu-16gb",
        "s-8vcpu-32gb",
        "s-12vcpu-48gb",
        "s-16vcpu-64gb",
        "s-20vcpu-96gb",
        "s-24vcpu-128gb",
        "s-32vcpu-192g"
      ]
    },
    "tags": [
      "web",
      "env:prod"
    ],
    "vpc_uuid": "760e09ef-dc84-11e8-981e-3cfdfeaae000",
    "gpu_info": {
      "count": 1,
      "model": "nvidia_h100",
      "vram": {
        "amount": 25,
        "unit": "gib"
      }
    }
  }
}