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subcategory: "Essential Contacts"
description: |-
  A contact that will receive notifications from Google Cloud.
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# google\_essential\_contacts\_contact

A contact that will receive notifications from Google Cloud.


To get more information about Contact, see:

* [API documentation](https://cloud.google.com/resource-manager/docs/reference/essentialcontacts/rest/v1/projects.contacts)
* How-to Guides
    * [Official Documentation](https://cloud.google.com/resource-manager/docs/managing-notification-contacts)

~> **Warning:** If you are using User ADCs (Application Default Credentials) with this resource,
you must specify a `billing_project` and set `user_project_override` to true
in the provider configuration. Otherwise the Essential Contacts API will return a 403 error.
Your account must have the `serviceusage.services.use` permission on the
`billing_project` you defined.

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## Example Usage - Essential Contact


```hcl
data "google_project" "project" {
}

resource "google_essential_contacts_contact" "contact" {
  parent = data.google_project.project.id
  email = "foo@bar.com"
  language_tag = "en-GB"
  notification_category_subscriptions = ["ALL"]
}
```

## Argument Reference

The following arguments are supported:


* `email` -
  (Required)
  The email address to send notifications to. This does not need to be a Google account.

* `notification_category_subscriptions` -
  (Required)
  The categories of notifications that the contact will receive communications for.

* `language_tag` -
  (Required)
  The preferred language for notifications, as a ISO 639-1 language code. See Supported languages for a list of supported languages.

* `parent` -
  (Required)
  The resource to save this contact for. Format: organizations/{organization_id}, folders/{folder_id} or projects/{project_id}


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## Attributes Reference

In addition to the arguments listed above, the following computed attributes are exported:

* `id` - an identifier for the resource with format `{{name}}`

* `name` -
  The identifier for the contact. Format: {resourceType}/{resource_id}/contacts/{contact_id}


## Timeouts

This resource provides the following
[Timeouts](https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/plugin/sdkv2/resources/retries-and-customizable-timeouts) configuration options:

- `create` - Default is 20 minutes.
- `update` - Default is 20 minutes.
- `delete` - Default is 20 minutes.

## Import


Contact can be imported using any of these accepted formats:

* `{{name}}`


In Terraform v1.5.0 and later, use an [`import` block](https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/language/import) to import Contact using one of the formats above. For example:

```tf
import {
  id = "{{name}}"
  to = google_essential_contacts_contact.default
}
```

When using the [`terraform import` command](https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/cli/commands/import), Contact can be imported using one of the formats above. For example:

```
$ terraform import google_essential_contacts_contact.default {{name}}
```