<p>I have a google compute VM instance that will not stop or be killed. </p>

<p>I don't know where it came from and I can't delete it or pause it. I don't have anything running on it nor is has anything scheduled with it.</p>

<p>'gke-cluster-1-default-pool-....`
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<p>That is a VM from Google Container Engine. In the left menu, navigate to Container Engine and check if you have any clusters created. If a cluster was created and then removed it is possible that the VM did not get cleaned up properly.</p>

<p>In you dashboard, there should be an Activity tab. You can use this to filter the activity on the account to see if someone created a Google Container Engine cluster.</p>
