> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://datum.net/docs/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# datumctl docs

> datumctl is the command-line tool for working with Datum Cloud, it is the fastest and best way to interact with Datum for both developer and agentic users

Documentation and API exploration commands

### Synopsis

Commands for exploring and browsing API documentation.

### Options

| Flag           | Type | Description    |
| -------------- | ---- | -------------- |
| `-h`, `--help` | —    | Help for docs. |

### Options inherited from parent commands

| Flag                         | Type        | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
| ---------------------------- | ----------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `--as`                       | string      | Username to impersonate for the operation. User could be a regular user or a service account in a namespace.                                                                                                            |
| `--as-group`                 | stringArray | Group to impersonate for the operation. Can be repeated to specify multiple groups.                                                                                                                                     |
| `--as-uid`                   | string      | UID to impersonate for the operation.                                                                                                                                                                                   |
| `--as-user-extra`            | stringArray | User extras to impersonate for the operation. Can be repeated to specify multiple values for the same key.                                                                                                              |
| `--certificate-authority`    | string      | Path to a cert file for the certificate authority.                                                                                                                                                                      |
| `--disable-compression`      | —           | If true, opt-out of response compression for all requests to the server.                                                                                                                                                |
| `--insecure-skip-tls-verify` | —           | If true, the server's certificate will not be checked for validity. This will make your HTTPS connections insecure.                                                                                                     |
| `--log-flush-frequency`      | duration    | Maximum number of seconds between log flushes. (default `5s`)                                                                                                                                                           |
| `-n`, `--namespace`          | string      | If present, the namespace scope for this CLI request.                                                                                                                                                                   |
| `--organization`             | string      | Organization name.                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
| `--platform-wide`            | —           | Access the platform root instead of a project or organization control plane.                                                                                                                                            |
| `--project`                  | string      | Project name.                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
| `--request-timeout`          | string      | The length of time to wait before giving up on a single server request. Non-zero values should contain a corresponding time unit (e.g. `1s`, `2m`, `3h`). A value of zero means don't timeout requests. (default `"0"`) |
| `-s`, `--server`             | string      | The address and port of the Kubernetes API server.                                                                                                                                                                      |
| `--tls-server-name`          | string      | Server name to use for server certificate validation. If not provided, the hostname used to contact the server is used.                                                                                                 |
| `--token`                    | string      | Bearer token for authentication to the API server.                                                                                                                                                                      |
| `--user`                     | string      | The name of the kubeconfig user to use.                                                                                                                                                                                 |
| `-v`, `--v`                  | Level       | Number for the log level verbosity.                                                                                                                                                                                     |
| `--vmodule`                  | moduleSpec  | Comma-separated list of `pattern=N` settings for file-filtered logging (only works for the default text log format).                                                                                                    |

### See also

* [datumctl](/datumctl/cli-reference/)	 - A CLI for interacting with the Datum platform
* [datumctl docs generate-cli-docs](/datumctl/command/datumctl_docs_generate-cli-docs/)	 - Generate markdown documentation
* [datumctl docs openapi](/datumctl/command/datumctl_docs_openapi/)	 - Browse OpenAPI specs for platform APIs

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