Chronoctl

Chronoctl is a command-line app that's a wrapper for accessing the Chronosphere API, letting you manage resources with YAML or JSON. The app supports the create, read, update, delete, and list operations as subcommands for each type of resource.

Usage

chronoctl COMMAND

Commands

Command	Description
apply	Apply multiple resources defined in a file

Configuration

Chronoctl provides commands to configure Chronosphere, each of which corresponds to a resource type.

• azure-metrics-integrations
• buckets
• classic-dashboards (grafana-dashboards)
• collections
• dashboards
• derived-labels
• derived-metrics
• drop-rules
• gcp-metrics-integrations
• mapping-rules
• monitors
• muting-rules
• notification-policies
• notifiers
• recording-rules
• resource-pools
• rollup-rules
• service-accounts
• teams

These resource commands have subcommands to read and manipulate entities via create, read, update, delete, and list. The scaffold subcommand generates YAML with all supported fields and comments with documentation.

For details about these resource types, see their documentation.

State

Chronoctl also provides commands to review state in Chronosphere:

• rule-evaluations
• metric-usages-by-metric-name
• metric-usages-by-label-name

Additional commands

Command	Description
completion	Generate the autocompletion script for the specified shell
help	Help about any command
version	Print the current version of chronoctl
auth	Authenticate the chronoctl session

Building

To build chronoctl, you must have Go 1.24 installed. A download link can be found at go.dev.

Run make chronoctl to build the binary. It will be found under ./bin/chronoctl

Backward compatibility

This repository guarantees backward compatibility between binary releases. This repository is not intended for use as a library, and doesn't guarantee backward compatibility of the code packages.

Support

For any questions, bugs, or feature requests, please file a ticket through our standard support channels.