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Hello Julien,

Thank you for reporting this.

There is already an ongoing 'Feature Request' for this concern and I am attaching this 'report' with it. However, I cannot provide you with an exact time of its completion or guarantee its implementation. But rest assured that Google strives on improving its products and your feedback helps us to do that.

On an additional note, there is a workaround to view the 'Machine type' of  GAE Flexible Instance. Do the following
1. From the developers console, go to App Engine> Instance, and identify the 'instance ID' listed in "Instances".
2. Go to the Compute engine> VM instances, find and click the 'instance ID' you have identified in previous step.
3. You can find "Machine Type" in VM instance details screen.

I have tried the proposed workaround but the AppEngine instances are not displayed in the Compute engine> VM instances.

Hello Francis,

The above-mentioned work-around is for the 'GAE Flexible Environment[1]'(because the application instances under this environment use Docker containers on Google Compute Engine virtual machines) and is not applicable to the 'App Engine Standard Environment'[2].

As long as you have deployed a GAE Flex version that is currently serving traffic (not stopped), its instances will show up both on the App Engine Instances page and on the Compute Engine VM Instances page. You can also check this[3] document for the significant difference between these two(Standard & Flexible) environments as well.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/flexible/ 
[2] https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/
[3] https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/the-appengine-environments

Thanks for the additional information. We have both Standard and Flexible service and everything you described makes sense to me. However, I have double checked and I can't see our Flexible instances in the Compute engine> VM instances. Could you double check customers can see them as well? I am not sure if the is the right channel or not for this but I can provide screenshots if you want.

Hello Francis,

After verifying with backline team I found out that you are right and the workaround I’ve provided is obsolete and isn't available anymore. Sorry for the confusion that my instructions might have caused.

As Google App Engine and Google Compute Engine are two separate products of GCP, showing one product’s resources in other product’s console may raise some confusions among the users. Therefore, App Engine resources are only visible on the App Engine section of Cloud Console.

That being said, I’d like to mention that the feature request to show ‘AppEngine Flex Machine Specification’  with the App Engine team remains open.

Thanks for following up on this. Julien, from the support team, was able to give me a workaround to see the machine type through a call to the StackDriver API. This is really cumbersome but this provides a workaround until this feature request gets implemented.