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Tentacle.exe command line

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List all Octopus Tentacle instances

Using the Tentacle.exe command line executable to query Tentacle settings.

Lists all installed Octopus Tentacle instances.

List instances options

Usage: tentacle 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 examples

This example lists all Octopus Tentacle instances on the machine:

Tentacle list-instances

This example lists all Octopus Tentacle instances on the machine in JSON format:

Tentacle list-instances --format="JSON"