> ## Documentation Index
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# show_graph

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    <div className="dt sig sig-object py" id="gpudb.GPUdb.show_graph"> <span className="sig-name descname"><span className="pre">show\_graph</span></span><span className="sig-paren">(</span><span className="em sig-param"><span className="n"><span className="pre">graph\_name</span></span><span className="o"><span className="pre">=</span></span><span className="default_value"><span className="pre">''</span></span></span>, <span className="em sig-param"><span className="n"><span className="pre">options</span></span><span className="o"><span className="pre">=</span></span><span className="default_value"><span className="pre">{"{"}{"}"}</span></span></span><span className="sig-paren">)</span><a href="https://github.com/kineticadb/kinetica-api-python/blob/master/gpudb/gpudb.py#L38694"><span className="viewcode-link"><span className="pre">\[source]</span></span></a></div>

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      <p>Shows information and characteristics of graphs that exist on the graph server.</p>
      <p><strong>Parameters</strong></p>

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            <div className="dt">graph\_name (<span className="em">str</span>) –</div>

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              <p>Name of the graph on which to retrieve information. If left as the default value, information about all graphs is returned. The default value is ‘’.</p>
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            <div className="dt">options (<span className="em">dict of str to str</span>) –</div>

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              <p>Optional parameters. Allowed keys are:</p>

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                  <p><strong>show\_original\_request</strong> – If set to <span className="em">true</span>, the request that was originally used to create the graph is also returned as JSON. Allowed values are:</p>

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                      <p>true</p>
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                      <p>false</p>
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                  <p>The default value is ‘true’.</p>
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                  <p><strong>server\_id</strong> – Indicates which graph server(s) to send the request to. Default is to send to get information about all the servers.</p>
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                  <p><strong>export\_graph\_schema</strong> – If true, generates the graph ontology (schema) as a DOT format string in the response info field under the key ‘dot’. Allowed values are:</p>

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                      <p>true</p>
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                      <p>false</p>
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                  <p>The default value is ‘false’.</p>
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              <p>The default value is an empty dict ( {"{"}{"}"} ).</p>
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      <p><strong>Returns</strong></p>

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          <p>A dict with the following entries–</p>

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            <div className="dt">result (<span className="em">bool</span>) –</div>

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              <p>Indicates a success. This call will fail if the graph specified in the request does not exist.</p>
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            <div className="dt">load (<span className="em">list of ints</span>) –</div>

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              <p>A percentage approximating the current computational load on the server.</p>
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            <div className="dt">memory (<span className="em">list of longs</span>) –</div>

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              <p>Available memory.</p>
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            <div className="dt">graph\_names (<span className="em">list of str</span>) –</div>

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              <p>Name(s) of the graph(s).</p>
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            <div className="dt">graph\_server\_ids (<span className="em">list of ints</span>) –</div>

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              <p>Id(s) of the graph(s).</p>
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              <p>Owner of the graph(s) and associated solution table(s).</p>
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            <div className="dt">graph\_owner\_resource\_groups (<span className="em">list of str</span>) –</div>

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              <p>Owner of the resource groups(s) of the graph(s).</p>
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            <div className="dt">directed (<span className="em">list of bools</span>) –</div>

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              <p>Whether or not the edges of the graph have directions (bi-directional edges can still exist in directed graphs). Consult <a className="reference external" href="/content/graph_solver/network_graph_solver/#directed-graphs">Directed Graphs</a> for more details.</p>
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            <div className="dt">num\_nodes (<span className="em">list of longs</span>) –</div>

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              <p>Total number of nodes in the graph.</p>
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            <div className="dt">num\_edges (<span className="em">list of longs</span>) –</div>

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              <p>Total number of edges in the graph.</p>
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            <div className="dt">num\_bytes (<span className="em">list of longs</span>) –</div>

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              <p>Memory this graph uses in bytes.</p>
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            <div className="dt">resource\_capacity (<span className="em">list of longs</span>) –</div>

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              <p>Memory this graph uses in bytes.</p>
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              <p>Shows whether or not the graph is persisted (saved and loaded on launch).</p>
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              <p>Indicates if the graph data is distributed across all available servers.</p>
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              <p>Shows whether or not the graph is linked to the original tables that created it, and will potentially be re-created instead loaded from persist on launch.</p>
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            <div className="dt">has\_insert\_table\_monitor (<span className="em">list of bools</span>) –</div>

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              <p>Shows whether or not the graph has an insert table monitor attached to it.</p>
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            <div className="dt">original\_request (<span className="em">list of str</span>) –</div>

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              <p>The original client request used to create the graph (before any expression evaluation or separator processing).</p>
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              <p>Additional information.</p>
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