TiProxy Command-Line Flags

This document introduces the command-line flags that you can use when you launch TiProxy. It also introduces flags of tiproxyctl.

TiProxy Server

This section lists the flags of the server program tiproxy.

--config

• Specifies the path of the TiProxy configuration file.
• Type: string
• Default: ""
• You must specify the configuration file. For detailed configuration items, refer to Configure TiProxy. Note that TiProxy automatically reloads the configuration when the configuration file is modified. Therefore, do not directly modify the configuration file. It is recommended to modify the configuration by executing tiup cluster edit-config or kubectl edit tc.

TiProxy control

This section lists the flags of the client program tiproxyctl.

--log_encoder

• Specifies the log format of tiproxyctl.

• Type: string

• Default: "tidb"

• It defaults to the same log format of TiDB. However, you can also specify it as one of the following:

  • console: a more human-readable format
  • json: a structured log format

--log_level

• Specifies the log level of tiproxyctl.
• Type: string
• Default: "warn"
• You can specify debug, info, warn, error, panic.

--curls

• Specifies the server addresses. You can add multiple listening addresses.
• Type: comma separated lists of ip:port
• Default: localhost:3080
• Server API gateway addresses.

-k, --insecure

• Specifies whether to skip TLS CA verification when dialing to the server.
• Type: boolean
• Default: false
• Used for testing.

--ca

• Specifies the CA when dialing to the server.
• Type: string
• Default: ""

--cert

• Specifies the certificate when dialing to the server.
• Type: string
• Default: ""