---
title: "calicoctl node"
description: "Reference overview of the calicoctl node subcommands in Calico Open Source for managing the calico/node container."
product: "Calico Open Source"
version: "3.33 (latest)"
section: "Reference"
canonical_url: "https://docs.tigera.io/calico/latest/reference/calicoctl/node/overview"
---

# calicoctl node

This section describes the `calicoctl node` commands.

Read the [calicoctl Overview](https://docs.tigera.io/calico/latest/reference/calicoctl/overview.md) 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.

```text
Manage a Calico node instance. These commands run directly on the compute host
where the node is running, and cover starting the node, checking its status,
and gathering diagnostics.

Usage:
  calicoctl node [command]

Available Commands:
  checksystem Verify the compute host is able to run a Calico node instance
  diags       Gather a diagnostics bundle for a Calico node
  run         Run the Calico node container image
  status      View the current status of a Calico node

Flags:
  -h, --help   help for node

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 node [command] --help" for more information about a command.
```

## Node specific commands

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

- [calicoctl node run](https://docs.tigera.io/calico/latest/reference/calicoctl/node/run.md)
- [calicoctl node status](https://docs.tigera.io/calico/latest/reference/calicoctl/node/status.md)
- [calicoctl node diags](https://docs.tigera.io/calico/latest/reference/calicoctl/node/diags.md)
- [calicoctl node checksystem](https://docs.tigera.io/calico/latest/reference/calicoctl/node/checksystem.md)