generated: '2026-07-20'
method: searched
source: https://docs.px.dev/installing-pixie/install-schemes/cli/
name: px
description: >-
  The Pixie command-line interface for deploying Pixie to Kubernetes clusters,
  authenticating, managing API/deploy keys, and running PxL scripts against live
  clusters from the terminal.
install:
- method: bash
  command: bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://withpixie.ai/install.sh)"
- method: homebrew
  command: brew install pixie
- method: debian
  command: dpkg -i pixie-px.x86_64.deb
- method: rpm
  command: rpm -i pixie-px.x86_64.rpm
- method: docker
  command: docker run -i --rm -v ${HOME}/.pixie:/root/.pixie pixielabs/px
commands:
- name: auth
  summary: Authenticate the CLI with Pixie Cloud.
- name: deploy
  summary: Deploy Pixie (Vizier) to a Kubernetes cluster.
- name: run
  summary: Execute a PxL script against a cluster and print results.
- name: live
  summary: Launch the interactive live debugging / views terminal UI.
- name: script
  summary: List and manage community and custom PxL scripts.
- name: get
  summary: Retrieve cluster, pem, viziers, and other resource information.
- name: delete
  summary: Remove a Pixie deployment from a cluster.
- name: update
  summary: Update the CLI and/or the deployed Vizier.
- name: api-key
  summary: >-
    Create/list/delete Pixie API keys (opaque, px-api- prefix) used to
    authenticate to the gRPC API from client libraries.
- name: deploy-key
  summary: Create/list/delete deploy keys used to register new clusters.
- name: demo
  summary: Deploy a demo application to a cluster.
- name: collect-logs
  summary: Bundle Pixie component logs for debugging/support.