Unknown resource type

Detects resources/datasources that cannot be resolved against known providers. The provider should be either specified in the required_providers section or should be from the hashicorp namespace.

For example, the code below will cause an error:

terraform {
  required_version = "1.1.3"
}
resource "abbey_demo" "demo" {
  email      = "user@mail.company"
  permission = "user"
}

Terraform will try to import hashicorp/abbey provider for the abbey_demo resource.

To fix this, we need to specify the exact provider coordinates:

terraform {
  required_version = "1.1.3"
  required_providers {
    abbey = {
      source  = "abbeylabs/abbey"
      version = "0.2.9"
    }
  }
}
resource "abbey_demo" "demo" {
  email      = "user@mail.company"
  permission = "user"
}

See terraform documentation for more information.

Locating this inspection

By ID

Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

TfUnknownResource

Via Settings dialog

Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | Terraform/OpenTofu

Inspection ID: TfUnknownResource

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection TfUnknownResource

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

Inspection Details
By default bundled with:	GoLand 2025.3, IntelliJ IDEA 2025.3, Qodana for Go 2025.3, Qodana for JVM 2025.3,

Last modified: 03 December 2025