---
title: "calicoctl node status"
description: "Reference for the calicoctl node status command in Calico Open Source, used to display BGP peer state and node liveness."
product: "Calico Open Source"
version: "3.33 (latest)"
section: "Reference"
canonical_url: "https://docs.tigera.io/calico/latest/reference/calicoctl/node/status"
---

# calicoctl node status

This sections describes the `calicoctl node status` command.

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 node status' command

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

```text
Show the current status of the Calico node on this host, including uptime and
BGP peering states. Must be run on the node whose status you want.

Usage:
  calicoctl node status [flags]

Examples:
  calicoctl node status

Flags:
  -h, --help   help for status

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")
```

### Examples

Check the status of a Calico instance.

```bash
sudo calicoctl node status
```

Some sample results follow,.

```text
Calico process is running.

IPv4 BGP status
+--------------+-------------------+-------+----------+-------------+
| PEER ADDRESS |     PEER TYPE     | STATE |  SINCE   |    INFO     |
+--------------+-------------------+-------+----------+-------------+
| 172.17.8.102 | node-to-node mesh | up    | 23:30:04 | Established |
+--------------+-------------------+-------+----------+-------------+

IPv6 BGP status
No IPv6 peers found.
```