calicoctl node status

This sections describes the calicoctl node status command.

Read the calicoctl Overview for a full list of calicoctl commands.

Displaying the help text for 'calicoctl node status' command

Run calicoctl node status --help to display the following help menu for the command.

Show the current status of the Calico node on this host, including uptime and
BGP peering states. Must be run on the node whose status you want.

Usage:
  calicoctl node status [flags]

Examples:
  calicoctl node status

Flags:
  -h, --help   help for status

Global Flags:
      --allow-version-mismatch   Allow client and cluster versions mismatch
      --context string           The name of the kubeconfig context to use
  -l, --log-level string         Set the log level (panic, fatal, error, warn, info, debug) (default "panic")

Examples

Check the status of a Calico instance.

sudo calicoctl node status

Some sample results follow,.

Calico process is running.

IPv4 BGP status
+--------------+-------------------+-------+----------+-------------+
| PEER ADDRESS |     PEER TYPE     | STATE |  SINCE   |    INFO     |
+--------------+-------------------+-------+----------+-------------+
| 172.17.8.102 | node-to-node mesh | up    | 23:30:04 | Established |
+--------------+-------------------+-------+----------+-------------+

IPv6 BGP status
No IPv6 peers found.