Configuration file

You can run cloudflared with a configuration file, which contains keys and values to configure cloudflared's behaviour. The configuration file format uses YAML syntaxOpen external link. Most keys have an equivalent CLI argument, however, some (e.g. ingress and originRequest) do not, as CLIs aren't very good at expressing trees of configuration. To learn more about the CLI, just run cloudflared --help or cloudflared tunnel --help.

​Default behavior

You can specify a particular Tunnel in the config file by name or ID. When the following stanza is present in the file, the command cloudflared tunnel run will be treated as if cloudflared tunnel run NAME-OR-ID was run.

tunnel: NAME-OR-ID

​File location

You can use --config to point to a non-standard YAML file location:

$ cloudflared tunnel --config tunnels/config.yml run

Without specifying --config, cloudflared will examine default directories for config files. On Windows the default directory is ~/.cloudflared. On Unix-like systems, the default directories are ~/.cloudflared, /etc/cloudflared and /usr/local/etc/cloudflared in that order. An example config.yml for the above command could look like:

hostname: tunnel.yourdomain.comurl: http://localhost:8000logfile: /var/log/cloudflared.log

Flags that don't expect any value (such as --hello-world) should be specified as boolean true in the YAML:

hello-world: true

​Arguments

• config
• ingress
• originRequest
• autoupdate-freq
• no-autoupdate
• origincert
• no-tls-verify
• metrics
• metrics-update-freq
• tag
• loglevel
• transport-loglevel
• retries
• pidfile
• logfile
• help
• version

​config

Specifies a config file in YAML format.

​ingress

This property configures which local services cloudflared will proxy incoming requests to. See the Ingress Rules docs for details.

​originRequest

This property configures how cloudflared will send requests to your local services. See the Origin Configuration docs for details.

​autoupdate-freq

Autoupdate frequency. See also no-autoupdate.

​no-autoupdate

Disables periodic check for updates, restarting the server with the new version. See also autoupdate-freq. Restarts are performed by spawning a new process that connects to the Cloudflare edge. On successful connection, the old process will gracefully shut down after handling all outstanding requests.

​origincert

Specifies the Tunnel certificate for one of your zones, authorizing the client to serve as an origin for that zone. A certificate is required to use Argo Tunnel. You can obtain a certificate by using the login command or by visiting https://dash.cloudflare.com/argotunnel.

​no-tls-verify

Disables TLS verification of the certificate presented by your origin. Will allow any certificate from the origin to be accepted. The connection from your machine to Cloudflare's Edge is still encrypted and verified using TLS.

​metrics

Address to query for usage metrics.

​metrics-update-freq

Frequency to update tunnel metrics.

​tag

Custom tags used to identify this tunnel, in format KEY=VALUE. Multiple tags may be specified by delimiting them with commas e.g. KEY1=VALUE1,KEY2=VALUE2.

​loglevel

Specifies the verbosity of logging. The default info is not noisy, but you may wish to run with warn in production. Available options: panic fatal error warn info debug

​transport-loglevel

Specifies the verbosity of logs for the transport between cloudflared and the Cloudflare edge. Any value below warn is noisy and should only be used to debug low-level performance issues and protocol quirks.

​retries

Maximum number of retries for connection/protocol errors. Retries use exponential backoff (retrying at 1, 2, 4, 8, 16 seconds by default) so increasing this value significantly is not recommended.

​pidfile

Write the application's PID to this file after the first successful connection. Mainly useful for scripting and service integration.

​logfile

Save application log to this file. Mainly useful for reporting issues.

​help

Shows help text.

​version

Prints the version number and build date.