Command Line Interface Overview

The Tideways command line interface simplifies tracing PHP console scripts and HTTP API requests for you. You can prefix any php, curl, http (httpie) or wget command you want to trace with tideways run <app> and it will set local environment variables for a PHP script or arguments to send HTTP headers with curl/wget.

Installation

See the Downloads page for more information on how to install it.

The tool is currently supported on both Linux and macOS.

Setup

The first step to use the CLI is importing the settings for your account. Open Commandline user settings dialog and follow the instructions to call tideways import.

tideways import <copy your generated token here>
[OK] Imported Settings for Tideways CLI.
You can now start profiling with 'tideways run <args>'
if you want generate the settings file for CLI in other directory as $HOME/.tideways then set the environment variable export TIDEWAYS_SETTINGS_DIR='my directory' before tideways import.

Overview

The following output provides a short overview about the tideways command line tool. For more details about individual commands, see the related articles.

tideways --help
Tideways command-line utilities

Usage:
  tideways [command]

Available Commands:
  benchmark    Run a benchmark against a list of URLs
  event        Manage events of a project
  help         Help about any command
  import       Import your profiling settings
  list         Print a list of all available projects
  run          Trigger profiling for a given command
  trace        Manage trace triggering rules of a project
  version      Print the version of Tideways CLI
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