CX - Coralogix CLI

The observability backbone for AI agents and engineering teams.
Connect your agents to live logs, traces, metrics, dashboards, and alerts so they can investigate incidents, explain what changed, and reason about production with real operational context.

What you can do

• Query any signal-logs, metrics, spans, and RUM data-with DataPrime or PromQL, and render results as tables, raw JSON, or a token-efficient format for AI agents.
• Manage the full Coralogix stack: alerts, incidents, notifications, IAM, SLOs, dashboards, data pipeline rules, TCO policies, and more.
• Run the same command across multiple profiles or regions in a single invocation with multi-profile fan-out.
• Give your AI agent a single entry point to production observability: cx schema dumps the entire command tree as JSON so agents can self-discover capabilities without manual documentation.
• Find the right log or span field by describing it in natural language.
• Browse the DataPrime language reference offline.
• Plug Coralogix into your AI coding agent with bundled skills for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and 40+ more agents.

Features

• DataPrime and PromQL at the terminal-Coralogix's proprietary query languages work end-to-end without leaving the shell.
• 27 commands across 9 domains-from querying signals to managing IAM, notifications, TCO, and archiving-all in one binary.
• Multi-profile fan-out with -p prod-eu -p prod-us <command>-run one command across multiple accounts or regions in a single invocation, with rows tagged by profile.
• agents output format-token-efficient JSON that auto-spills to a temp file once the serialized payload exceeds 100 KiB, so AI agents get a path instead of a flooded context window.
• cx schema-outputs the full command tree as structured JSON, purpose-built for agent discovery with no help-text parsing required.
• Semantic field search-find the right log or span field by describing it in natural language.
• Bundled skills for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, OpenCode, and 40+ more agents, distributed via npx skills add.

Install cx for AI agents

Most macOS users should use Homebrew. If you are not on macOS, use the cross-platform install script.

1. Install the CLI

curl -fsSL https://get.coralogix.dev/cli | sh

Recommended for macOS: Homebrew

brew install coralogix/tap/cx

Works on macOS and Linux: install script

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/coralogix/cx-cli/master/install.sh | sh

2. Install agent skills

Skills teach your AI agent how to use cx for observability investigations.

npx skills add coralogix/cx-cli

3. Optional: install shell autocomplete

Most macOS users use zsh:

cx completions install zsh

For other shells, see Shell completions. For Cargo, pre-built binaries, Nix, and source builds, see Installation reference.

Quick start

Follow these steps to go from a fresh install to a working query.

1. Create a profile. cx profiles add opens an interactive prompt for region, credentials, and default output format:

   cx profiles add

2. Query logs. The positional argument is a DataPrime query:

   cx logs 'filter $m.severity == ERROR'

3. Query metrics. cx metrics query takes a PromQL expression:

   cx metrics query 'rate(http_requests_total[5m])'

4. Search distributed spans. The positional argument is a DataPrime filter; source spans is prepended automatically:

   cx spans "filter \$l.serviceName == 'checkout'" --start now-2h --limit 50

5. List dashboards to confirm the API is reachable:

   cx dashboards catalog

Run cx <command> --help for full syntax and examples on any command.

Commands

Commands are grouped by domain. Run cx --help for the full organized listing, or cx schema for a machine-readable JSON tree.

Query

Command	Purpose
cx logs	Query logs using DataPrime
cx spans	Query distributed spans
cx metrics	Query metrics using PromQL: query, query-range, search, get-labels
cx dataprime	DataPrime language reference and raw queries: list, show, query
cx search-fields	Find log or span fields by natural-language description

Observe

Command	Purpose
cx dashboards	Manage dashboards and folders
cx views	Manage saved views and view folders
cx slos	Manage SLO definitions

Detect & Respond

Command	Purpose
cx alerts	Manage alerts: list, get, create, enable, disable, events, event-stats, suppression-rules
cx incidents	Manage and triage incidents

Notifications

Command	Purpose
cx notifications	Manage connectors, routers, presets, and notification testing
cx webhooks	Manage outgoing webhooks and automation actions

Data Pipeline

Command	Purpose
cx parsing-rules	Manage log parsing rules
cx enrichments	Manage enrichment rules and custom enrichment tables
cx e2m	Manage Events2Metrics definitions
cx recording-rules	Manage Prometheus recording rule groups

Cost & Storage

Command	Purpose
cx usage	View data usage and consumption metrics
cx tco	Manage TCO policies and settings
cx retentions	Manage data retention settings
cx quotas	Manage quota rules
cx archive (risky)	Manage data archive storage configuration

Integrations

Command	Purpose
cx integrations	Manage integrations, extensions, and contextual data

Access

Command	Purpose
cx iam (risky)	Manage API keys, roles, scopes, users, groups, SAML, and IP access

Agent & Local

Command	Purpose
cx schema	Output the full command tree as JSON for agent consumption
cx profiles	Manage profiles: list, add, delete, set-default
cx completions	Shell tab-completion: install, refresh, generate
cx cleanup	Remove cx_results* temp files older than 30 minutes

Global options

-p, --profile <PROFILE>      Profile to use. Repeat to fan out across multiple profiles.
    --api-key <API_KEY>      Override the profile API key
    --region <REGION>        Override the profile region
-o, --output <FORMAT>        text | json | agents (default: text)
    --yes                    Skip confirmation prompts for destructive operations

Configuration

Configuration lives in ~/.cx/:

~/.cx/
  config.toml              # Global settings
  profiles/
    default.toml           # Credentials and region per profile

Credentials (API keys or OAuth tokens) are stored either inline in the profile TOML with 0600 permissions (credential_storage = "file", the default) or in the OS keyring (credential_storage = "os_store" - macOS Keychain, Windows Credential Manager, or D-Bus Secret Service on Linux). cx profiles add prompts for the choice. On Linux, keyring support requires a glibc build; the default install script and release binaries use musl, which has no keyring backend, so os_store is unavailable there.

Environment variables override profile settings: CX_PROFILE, CX_API_KEY, and CX_REGION.

See docs/configuration.md for the full reference.

Output formats

Choose an output format with -o or by setting the profile default.

• text-human-readable tables with color. Default.
• json-raw, pretty-printed API responses for scripting.
• agents-token-efficient format for AI agents. Large responses automatically spill to a temporary file and the path is returned.

See docs/agents-output.md for the agents format specification.

AI agent skills

cx ships a companion skill bundle for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, OpenCode, and 40+ other agents. The skills teach your agent how to investigate issues by querying Coralogix-without memorizing DataPrime syntax or API endpoints.

The install flow above installs all skills. Use these variants if you want to customize where or what you install.

Install selected skills:

npx skills add coralogix/cx-cli --skill query-logs --skill dataprime

Install globally for all projects:

npx skills add coralogix/cx-cli -g

Available skills: cx-query-logs, cx-query-spans, cx-metrics-query, cx-alerts, cx-dataprime, cx-rum, cx-telemetry-querying, cx-create-dashboard, cx-cost-optimization, cx-incident-management, cx-data-pipeline, cx-platform-admin, cx-observability-setup. See skills/README.md for per-skill usage.

Multi-profile fan-out

Repeat -p to run a command across multiple profiles in parallel. Results are merged and tagged with the profile name:

cx -p prod-eu -p prod-us logs 'filter $m.severity == ERROR'

See docs/multi-profile.md for more examples.

Installation reference

Pin a CLI version

CX_VERSION=0.1.0 curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/coralogix/cx-cli/master/install.sh | sh

Cargo

cargo install coralogix-cli

Pre-built binaries

Download the latest release for your platform from GitHub Releases.

Nix

nix run    github:coralogix/cx-cli -- --help     # try without installing
nix profile install github:coralogix/cx-cli      # install into your profile

The flake exposes both the cx binary and the agent skill bundle:

{
  inputs.cx-cli.url = "github:coralogix/cx-cli";

  outputs = { self, nixpkgs, cx-cli, ... }: {
    # cx-cli.packages.${system}.default -> the `cx` binary
    # cx-cli.packages.${system}.skills  -> store path with all cx-* skills
  };
}

Home Manager

Symlink each skill into ~/.claude/skills/ (adjust the target path for other agents):

# home.nix
{ inputs, pkgs, lib, ... }:
let
  skills = inputs.cx-cli.packages.${pkgs.system}.skills;
in {
  home.packages = [ inputs.cx-cli.packages.${pkgs.system}.default ];

  home.file = lib.mapAttrs'
    (name: _: lib.nameValuePair ".claude/skills/${name}" { source = "${skills}/${name}"; })
    (lib.filterAttrs (_: t: t == "directory") (builtins.readDir skills));
}

Build from source

cargo build --release
cp target/release/cx /usr/local/bin/

Shell completions

cx supports tab-completion for all commands, flags, subcommands, and profile names.

Managed install (recommended)

Let cx install and track a completion script for you. It writes to a standard user-writable location and records the path so cx completions refresh can update it later:

cx completions install zsh
cx completions install bash
cx completions install fish

Default paths used by each shell:

Shell	Default path
zsh	~/.zfunc/_cx
bash	~/.local/share/bash-completion/completions/cx
fish	~/.config/fish/completions/cx.fish

After installing for zsh, add ~/.zfunc to your $fpath if it isn't already there (the install command will tell you):

# Add to ~/.zshrc:
fpath=(~/.zfunc $fpath)
autoload -Uz compinit && compinit

Refreshing after profile changes

When you add or delete a profile, cx will remind you to refresh if you have managed completions. You can run it any time:

cx completions refresh

Only files previously installed by cx completions install are updated.

Manual install

To generate a script yourself and pipe it anywhere:

cx completions generate zsh > ~/.zfunc/_cx
cx completions generate bash > ~/.local/share/bash-completion/completions/cx
cx completions generate fish > ~/.config/fish/completions/cx.fish

Dynamic completions (always-fresh profile names)

For profile names to update automatically on every Tab press without running refresh, source completions dynamically on each shell start. This calls back into cx at completion time:

zsh - add to ~/.zshrc:

source <(COMPLETE=zsh cx)

bash - add to ~/.bashrc:

source <(COMPLETE=bash cx)

fish - add to ~/.config/fish/config.fish:

COMPLETE=fish cx | source

Migrating from cxctl

cx replaces the older Scala-based cxctl. If you are looking for documentation on the legacy tool, see the Coralogix CLI (legacy) docs. cx does not currently cover all legacy surfaces, including LiveTail and account invite flows.

Contributing

We welcome contributions! See CONTRIBUTING.md for the ownership model, PR review process, and step-by-step guides for adding commands and skills.

Further reading

• Configuration
• Agents output format
• Multi-profile fan-out
• Time syntax
• Architecture
• Development guide

License

Apache-2.0