---
title: ecctl
description: Elastic Cloud Control ecctl auth - Manages authentication settings, ecctl comment - Manages resource comments, ecctl deployment - Manages deployments,...
url: https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3147/reference/ecctl/ecctl
products:
  - Elastic Cloud Control
applies_to:
  - Elastic Cloud Hosted: Generally available
  - Elastic Cloud Enterprise: Generally available
---

# ecctl
Elastic Cloud Control

## Options

```
      --api-key string        API key to use to authenticate (If empty will look for EC_API_KEY environment variable)
      --config string         Config name, used to have multiple configs in $HOME/.ecctl/<env> (default "config")
      --force                 Do not ask for confirmation
      --format string         Formats the output using a Go template
  -h, --help                  help for ecctl
      --host string           Base URL to use
      --insecure              Skips all TLS validation
      --message string        A message to set on cluster operation
      --output string         Output format [text|json] (default "text")
      --pass string           Password to use to authenticate (If empty will look for EC_PASS environment variable)
      --pprof                 Enables pprofing and saves the profile to pprof-20060102150405
  -q, --quiet                 Suppresses the configuration file used for the run, if any
      --region string         Elastic Cloud Hosted region
      --timeout duration      Timeout to use on all HTTP calls (default 30s)
      --trace                 Enables tracing saves the trace to trace-20060102150405
      --user string           Username to use to authenticate (If empty will look for EC_USER environment variable)
      --verbose               Enable verbose mode
      --verbose-credentials   When set, Authorization headers on the request/response trail will be displayed as plain text
      --verbose-file string   When set, the verbose request/response trail will be written to the defined file
```


## See also

- [ecctl auth](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3147/reference/ecctl/ecctl_auth) - Manages authentication settings
- [ecctl comment](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3147/reference/ecctl/ecctl_comment) - Manages resource comments
- [ecctl deployment](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3147/reference/ecctl/ecctl_deployment) - Manages deployments
- [ecctl generate](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3147/reference/ecctl/ecctl_generate) - Generates completions and docs
- [ecctl init](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3147/reference/ecctl/ecctl_init) - Creates an initial configuration file.
- [ecctl platform](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3147/reference/ecctl/ecctl_platform) - Manages the platform
- [ecctl stack](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3147/reference/ecctl/ecctl_stack) - Manages Elastic StackPacks
- [ecctl user](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3147/reference/ecctl/ecctl_user) - Manages the platform users
- [ecctl version](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3147/reference/ecctl/ecctl_version) - Shows ecctl version