Command-line options

Command-line options let you configure properties across origins in the same cloudflared instance. They are also a quick way to handle configurations if you are connecting a single service through cloudflared. If you are connecting multiple services and you need to configure properties or exceptions for specific origins, you can do so by adding arguments to ingress rules in your configuration file.

For example, the following command will run the mytunnel tunnel by proxying traffic to port 8000 and disabling chunked transfer encoding.

$ cloudflared tunnel --url localhost:8000 --no-chunked-encoding run mytunnel

The following is a list of common command-line options you can use to configure your tunnels. For a complete list of options, run:

$ cloudflared tunnel help

• config
• autoupdate-freq
• no-autoupdate
• origincert
• metrics
• metrics-update-freq
• tag
• retries
• pidfile
• protocol
• help
• version
• logfile
• loglevel
• transport-loglevel

​​ config

Specifies the path to a config file in YAML format.

​​ autoupdate-freq

Configures autoupdate frequency. See also: no-autoupdate .

​​ no-autoupdate

Disables periodic check for updates, restarting the server with the new version. See also: autoupdate-freq . Restarts are performed by spawning a new process that connects to the Cloudflare edge. On successful connection, the old process will gracefully shut down after handling all outstanding requests.

​​ origincert

Specifies the Tunnel certificate for one of your zones, authorizing the client to serve as an origin for that zone. A certificate is required to use Cloudflare Tunnel. You can obtain a certificate by using the login command or by visiting https://dash.cloudflare.com/argotunnel.

​​ grace-period

When cloudflared receives SIGINT/SIGTERM it will stop accepting new requests, wait for in-progress requests to terminate, then shut down. Waiting for in-progress requests will timeout after this grace period, or when a second SIGTERM/SIGINT is received.

​​ metrics

Specifies address to query for usage metrics.

​​ metrics-update-freq

Specifies frequency to update tunnel metrics.

​​ tag

Specifies custom tags used to identify this tunnel, in format KEY=VALUE. Multiple tags may be specified by delimiting them with commas e.g. KEY1=VALUE1, KEY2=VALUE2.

​​ retries

Specifies the maximum number of retries for connection/protocol errors. Retries use exponential backoff (retrying at 1, 2, 4, 8, 16 seconds by default), so it is not recommended that you increase this value significantly.

​​ pidfile

Writes the application’s process identifier (PID) to this file after the first successful connection. Mainly useful for scripting and service integration.

​​ protocol

Specifies the protocol used to establish a connection between cloudflared and the edge. Available values are auto, http2, h2mux, and quic. The auto value will automatically configure the http2 protocol.

​​ region

Allows you to choose the regions to which connections are established. Omit or leave empty to connect to the global region. Set --region=us to route all connections through us region 1 and us region 2.

​​ logfile

Saves application log to this file. Mainly useful for reporting issues. For more details on what information you need when contacting Cloudflare support, refer to this guide .

​​ loglevel

Specifies the verbosity of logging. The default info level does not produce much output, but you may wish to use the warn level in production. Available levels are: trace, debug, info, warn, error, fatal, panic.

​​ transport-loglevel

Specifies the verbosity of logs for the transport between cloudflared and the Cloudflare edge. Available levels are: trace, debug, info, warn, error, fatal, panic. Any value below warn produces substantial output and should only be used to debug low-level performance issues and protocol quirks.