CLI help

Snyk CLI scans and monitors your projects for security vulnerabilities and license issues.

For more information, visit the Snyk website

For details, see the CLI documentation

How to get started

1. Authenticate by running snyk auth.

2. Test your local project with snyk test.

3. Get alerted for new vulnerabilities with snyk monitor.

Available commands

To learn more about each Snyk CLI command, use the --help option, for example, snyk auth --help.

Note: The help on the docs site is the same as the --help in the CLI.

snyk auth

Authenticate Snyk CLI with a Snyk account.

snyk test

Test a project for open-source vulnerabilities and license issues.

Note: Use snyk test --unmanaged to scan all files for known open-source dependencies (C/C++ only).

snyk monitor

Snapshot and continuously monitor a project for open-source vulnerabilities and license issues.

snyk container

These commands test and continuously monitor container images for vulnerabilities and generate an SBOM for a container image.

snyk iac

These commands find and report security issues in Infrastructure as Code files; detect, track, and alert on infrastructure drift and unmanaged resources; and create a .driftigore file.

snyk code

The snyk code test command finds security issues using Static Code Analysis.

snyk sbom

Generate or test an SBOM document in ecosystems supported by Snyk.

snyk aibom

Generates an AIBOM for a local software project that is written in Python, to understand what AI models, datasets, tools, and so on are used in that project.

snyk log4shell

Find Log4Shell vulnerability.

snyk config

Manage Snyk CLI configuration.

snyk policy

Display the .snyk policy for a package.

snyk ignore

Modify the .snyk policy to ignore stated issues.

Debug

Use -d option to output the debug logs.

Configure the Snyk CLI

You can use environment variables to configure the Snyk CLI and also set variables to configure the Snyk CLI to connect with the Snyk API. See Configure the Snyk CLI