bronto is a command-line client for the Bronto observability
platform. It wraps Bronto’s REST and ingestion APIs, so anything you do in the web app
you can also do in a shell script, a CI job, or an agent’s tool call. It’s a single
binary with scriptable output and stable exit codes.
Open source and community-supported. The bronto CLI is developed in the open at
bronto-community/bronto-cli under the MIT license. It is
supported by its community, not by Bronto’s support team: report bugs, ask questions, and
suggest features in GitHub issues. Contributions are welcome.
Log in, find the failing service, and pull its errors
What you can do
Search logs
Run one-shot queries with
bronto search, or let filter flags like --eq and --gt
write the WHERE clause for you.Follow live
bronto tail streams new events like tail -f, or redraws a live group-by every few
seconds.Explore traces
See a trace’s waterfall, latency per service, and the call-tree shape merged across
many traces.
Manage resources
Datasets, monitors, dashboards, users, API keys and more share one
list | get | create | update | delete pattern.Script it
JSONL when piped, a JSON error envelope,
--jq, --dry-run, and documented exit
codes.Run it in CI
Read the key from the environment instead of a keychain, or use the container image,
which has no shell.
Next steps
Install
Homebrew, install script, go install, Docker, or a release archive.
Quickstart
From API key to your first piped search in five minutes.
Command reference
Every command and flag, generated from the CLI itself.
Source on GitHub
Issues, releases, and the code behind the bronto CLI.