# CLI

To use `pino-applicationinsights` from the command line, you need to install it globally:

```bash
npm install -g pino-applicationinsights
```

## Example

Given an application `foo` that logs via pino, you would use `pino-applicationinsights` like so:

```bash
node foo | pino-applicationinsights --key blablabla
```

## Usage

You can pass the following options via cli arguments:

| Short command | Full command | Description |
| ------------- | ------------ |-------------|
| -V | --version | Output the version number |
| -k | --key <key> | Instrumentation Key of the Azure Application Insights account |
| -h | --help | Output usage information |

See the [API](./API.md) documentation for details.