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Octopus.Server.exe command line

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List instances

Lists all installed Octopus instances

Use the list instance command to show all currently installed Octopus instances.

List Instances options

Usage: octopus.server list-instances [<options>]

Where [<options>] is any of:

      --format=VALUE         The format of the output (text,json). Defaults
                               to text.

Or one of the common options:

      --help                 Show detailed help for this command

Basic example

This example lists all currently installed instances of Octopus on the machine:

octopus.server list-instances

On a machine with multiple instances installed, an example of the output is:

Instance 'MyNewInstance' uses configuration 'C:\MyNewInstance\MyNewInstance.config'.
Instance 'OctopusServer' uses configuration 'C:\Octopus\OctopusServer.config'.