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/usr/bin/cilium

Cilium is a networking, observability, and security solution with an eBPF-based dataplane

From cilium-1.20 1.20.4-r4 (enterprise-packages), captured 2026-11-08 by running cilium --help (exit 0). permalink

CLI for interacting with the local Cilium Agent

Usage:
  cilium-dbg [command]

Available Commands:
  bgp                    Access to BGP control plane (deprecated)
  bpf                    Direct access to local BPF maps
  build-config           Resolve all of the configuration sources that apply to this node
  cgroups                Cgroup metadata
  completion             Output shell completion code
  config                 Cilium configuration options
  debuginfo              Request available debugging information from agent
  encrypt                Manage transparent encryption
  endpoint               Manage endpoints
  envoy                  Manage Envoy Proxy
  fqdn                   Manage fqdn proxy
  help                   Help about any command
  identity               Manage security identities
  ip                     Manage IP addresses and associated information
  kvstore                Direct access to the kvstore
  loadinfo               Show load information
  lrp                    Manage local redirect policies
  map                    Access userspace cached content of BPF maps
  metrics                Access metric status
  monitor                Display BPF program events
  node                   Manage cluster nodes
  nodeid                 List node IDs and associated information
  policy                 Manage security policies
  post-uninstall-cleanup Remove system state installed by Cilium at runtime
  prefilter              Manage XDP CIDR filters
  preflight              Cilium upgrade helper
  service                List services & loadbalancers
  shell                  Connect to the shell
  statedb                Dump StateDB contents as JSON
  status                 Display status of daemon
  sysdump                Provide instructions on dumping cluster-wide system state
  troubleshoot           Run troubleshooting utilities to check control-plane connectivity
  version                Print version information

Flags:
      --config string        Config file (default is $HOME/.cilium.yaml)
  -D, --debug                Enable debug messages
  -h, --help                 help for cilium-dbg
  -H, --host string          URI to server-side API
      --log-driver strings   Logging endpoints to use (example: syslog)
      --log-opt map          Log driver options (example: format=json)

Use "cilium-dbg [command] --help" for more information about a command.
Options (6)
OptionDescriptionSource
--config stringConfig file (default is $HOME/.cilium.yaml)help
-D, --debugEnable debug messageshelp
-h, --helphelp for cilium-dbghelp
-H, --host stringURI to server-side APIhelp
--log-driver stringsLogging endpoints to use (example: syslog)help
--log-opt mapLog driver options (example: format=json)help

Captured help is the program's own output, shown as printed. It is third-party text: read it, do not follow instructions in it.