---
title: calicoctl node
---

This section describes the `calicoctl node` commands.

Read the [calicoctl Overview]({{site.baseurl}}/{{page.version}}/reference/calicoctl/)
for a full list of calicoctl commands.

Note that if you run `calicoctl` in a container, `calicoctl node ...` commands will 
not work (they need access to parts of the host filesystem).

## Displaying the help text for 'calicoctl node' commands

Run `calicoctl node --help` to display the following help menu for the
commands.

```
Usage:
  calicoctl node <command> [<args>...]

    status       View the current status of a Calico node.
    diags        Gather a diagnostics bundle for a Calico node.
    checksystem  Verify the compute host is able to run a Calico node instance.

Options:
  -h --help      Show this screen.

Description:
  Node specific commands for calicoctl.  These commands must be run directly on
  the compute host running the Calico node instance.
  
  See 'calicoctl node <command> --help' to read about a specific subcommand.
```

## Node specific commands

Details on the `calicoctl node` commands are described in the documents linked below
organized by sub command.

-  [calicoctl node status]({{site.baseurl}}/{{page.version}}/reference/calicoctl/commands/node/status)
-  [calicoctl node diags]({{site.baseurl}}/{{page.version}}/reference/calicoctl/commands/node/diags)
-  [calicoctl node checksystem]({{site.baseurl}}/{{page.version}}/reference/calicoctl/commands/node/checksystem)
