# Retrieve Wireguard Gateway

Returns the WireGuard Gateway by ID.

To retrieve the WireGuard Gateway, perform a `GET` request.

## Endpoint

Use a [<mark style="color:blue;">region-specific</mark>](/cloud/network-services/vpn-gateway/api-how-tos.md#endpoints) endpoint to retrieve a WireGuard Gateway: `https://vpn.{region}.ionos.com/wireguardgateways/{gatewayId}`.

## Request

{% hint style="info" %}
**Note:** The following request contains a sample `gatewayId`. Replace them with the `gatewayId` value, whose information you want to retrieve.
{% endhint %}

```bash
curl --location \
--request GET 'https://vpn.de-fra.ionos.com/wireguardgateways/85c79b4b-5b40-570a-b788-58dd46ea71e2' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJraWQiO'
```

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="Path Parameters" %}
You can update the `gatewayId` value to get a specific WireGuard Gateway:

| Path Parameter | Type   | Description                             | Example                                |
| -------------- | ------ | --------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------- |
| **gatewayId**  | string | The ID (UUID) of the WireGuard Gateway. | `85c79b4b-5b40-570a-b788-58dd46ea71e2` |
| {% endtab %}   |        |                                         |                                        |

{% tab title="Request Header Parameters" %}
To make authenticated requests to the API, the following fields are mandatory in the request header:

| Header Parameter | Required | Type   | Description                                                                       |
| ---------------- | -------- | ------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `Authorization`  | yes      | string | The Bearer token to enable requests to authenticate using a JSON Web Token (JWT). |
| `Content-Type`   | no       | string | Set this to `application/json`.                                                   |
| {% endtab %}     |          |        |                                                                                   |
| {% endtabs %}    |          |        |                                                                                   |

## Response

**200 Successful operation**

```json
{
  "id": "85c79b4b-5b40-570a-b788-58dd46ea71e2",
  "type": "wireguardgateway",
  "href": "/wireguardgateways/85c79b4b-5b40-570a-b788-58dd46ea71e2",
  "metadata": {
    "createdDate": "2020-12-10T13:37:50+01:00",
    "createdBy": "ionos:identity:::users/87f9a82e-b28d-49ed-9d04-fba2c0459cd3",
    "createdByUserId": "87f9a82e-b28d-49ed-9d04-fba2c0459cd3",
    "lastModifiedDate": "2020-12-11T13:37:50+01:00",
    "lastModifiedBy": "ionos:identity:::users/87f9a82e-b28d-49ed-9d04-fba2c0459cd3",
    "lastModifiedByUserId": "87f9a82e-b28d-49ed-9d04-fba2c0459cd3",
    "resourceURN": "ionos:<product>:<location>:<contract>:<resource-path>",
    "status": "AVAILABLE",
    "statusMessage": null,
    "publicKey": "-----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-----\nMCowBQYDK2VuAyEApNLcmIfCLRwyGYN16teusuGPkdGo2C8OxiqaJLgOig4=\n-----END PUBLIC KEY-----\n"
  },
  "properties": {
    "name": "My Company Gateway",
    "description": "This gateway allows connections to Datacenter LAN X.",
    "gatewayIP": "81.173.1.2",
    "interfaceIPv4CIDR": "172.16.0.1/30",
    "interfaceIPv6CIDR": "fd00::2/128",
    "connections": [
      {
        "datacenterId": "5a029f4a-72e5-11ec-90d6-0242ac120003",
        "lanId": "2",
        "ipv4CIDR": "192.168.1.100/24",
        "ipv6CIDR": "fd28:5f8d:d9fe:08bd::/64"
      }
    ],
    "listenPort": 51820,
    "tier": "STANDARD",
    "maintenanceWindow": {
      "time": "16:30:59",
      "dayOfTheWeek": "Monday"
    }
  }
}
```

{% hint style="success" %}
**Result:** The WireGuard Gateway and its details for the specified `gatewayId` are successfully obtained.
{% endhint %}


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