CLI Tool

One CLI for Your EntireObservability Stack

For you and your agents. Validate configs, find instrumentation gaps, and query live telemetry, all from the terminal.

Scout CLI terminal interface
Observability CLI

Investigate From the Terminal

Your agents and your team get fast, structured access to service maps, logs, and queries, without leaving the terminal.

Service Map

Full-stack
topology

See every service in your system, who calls whom, and what span names cross those edges.

Full topology
Service topology mapping
Dependency tracking
Span name discovery

Search Logs

Targeted
log search

Find relevant logs by timespan and service. Fast, structured results your agents can act on.

Agent-ready
Time-range filtering
Service scoping
Structured output

Get Query

Ready-made
queries

Generate fast queries for alerts and dashboards without learning the query syntax.

No syntax needed
Alert query generation
Dashboard query generation
Syntax-free

Health Summary

Real-time
health check

Find out what you should be worried about right now. Alerts, anomalies, and degraded services.

Coming Soon
Active alert summary
Anomaly detection
Service health status
Onboarding & Instrumentation

From Zero to Collecting Data

Validate your configs, find instrumentation gaps, and generate working collector setups, without reading the OTel docs.

Validate Config

Instant
config check

Drop in your OTel collector config and immediately know if it's broken, misconfigured, or violating semantic conventions. No auth needed.

No auth required
Config syntax validation
Semantic convention checks
Exporter auth verification

Scan Codebase

Full
gap report

Point at any folder and get a report: which services are instrumented, which aren't, and what's partially done. Read-only, no code changes.

Read-only
Service detection
Instrumentation coverage
Gap identification

Instrument Brief

LLM-ready
brief

Get a structured brief describing exactly what instrumentation is missing and how to add it. Paste it into your coding agent and let it do the work.

Coming Soon
Language-aware analysis
Framework detection
Agent-ready output

Scan Infrastructure

Auto
collector config

Detect your k8s environment and generate a working OTel collector config with Scout pre-wired as the exporter.

Coming Soon
K8s environment detection
Collector config generation
Scout exporter pre-wired

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