---
title: "calicoctl cluster"
description: "Reference overview of the calicoctl cluster subcommands in Calico Open Source for cluster-wide operations such as diagnostics collection."
product: "Calico Open Source"
version: "3.33 (latest)"
section: "Reference"
canonical_url: "https://docs.tigera.io/calico/latest/reference/calicoctl/cluster/overview"
---

# calicoctl cluster

This section describes the `calicoctl cluster` commands.

Read the [calicoctl Overview](https://docs.tigera.io/calico/latest/reference/calicoctl/overview.md) for a full list of calicoctl commands.

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

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

```text
Access cluster-wide Calico information.

Usage:
  calicoctl cluster [command]

Available Commands:
  diags       Collect snapshot of diagnostic info and logs related to Calico at the cluster-level

Flags:
  -h, --help   help for cluster

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")

Use "calicoctl cluster [command] --help" for more information about a command.
```

## Cluster specific commands

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

- [calicoctl cluster diags](https://docs.tigera.io/calico/latest/reference/calicoctl/cluster/diags.md)