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/usr/bin/traffic_ctl

Apache Traffic Server™ is a fast, scalable and extensible HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 compliant caching proxy server.

From trafficserver-9 9.2.16-r0 (os), captured 2026-11-05 by running traffic_ctl --help (exit 0). permalink

Usage: traffic_ctl [OPTIONS] CMD [ARGS ...]

Commands ---------------------- Description -----------------------
  alarm                         Manipulate alarms
    clear                       Clear all current alarms
    list                        List all current alarms
    resolve                     Resolve the listed alarms
  config                        Manipulate configuration records
    defaults                    Show default information configuration values
    describe                    Show detailed information about configuration values
    diff                        Show non-default configuration values
    get                         Get one or more configuration values
    match                       Get configuration matching a regular expression
    reload                      Request a configuration reload
    set                         Set a configuration value
    status                      Check the configuration status
  host                          Interact with host status
    down                        Set down one or more host(s)
    status                      Get one or more host statuses
    up                          Set up one or more host(s)
  metric                        Manipulate performance metrics
    clear                       Clear all metric values
    describe                    Show detailed information about one or more metric values
    get                         Get one or more metric values
    match                       Get metrics matching a regular expression
    monitor                     Display the value of a metric over time
    zero                        Clear one or more metric values
  plugin                        Interact with plugins
    msg                         Send message to plugins - a TAG and the message DATA(optional)
  server                        Stop, restart and examine the server
    backtrace                   Show a full stack trace of the traffic_server process
    drain                       Drain the requests
    restart                     Restart Traffic Server
    start                       Start the proxy
    status                      Show the proxy status
    stop                        Stop the proxy
  storage                       Manipulate cache storage
    offline                     Take one or more storage volumes offline
    status                      Show the storage configuration

Options ======================= Default ===== Description =============
--debug                                       Enable debugging output
-h, --help                                    Print usage information
--run-root <arg>                              using TS_RUNROOT as sandbox
-V, --version                                 Print version string
Options (4)
OptionDescriptionSource
--debugEnable debugging outputhelp
-h, --helpPrint usage informationhelp
--run-root argusing TS_RUNROOT as sandboxhelp
-V, --versionPrint version stringhelp

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