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CLI#

A sigx CLI plugin for observing actors: hosts, latency, errors and cluster topology, from a terminal.

v0.1.0 MIT

Installation#

Terminal 
pnpm add -D @sigx/actors-cli
Terminal 
sigx actors                                        # the dashboard
sigx actors top --url http://host:3000             # …against a running host
sigx actors stats --json | jq '.cluster.totals'    # a snapshot, for piping
sigx actors health --url http://host:3000          # exit code by readiness

Requires @sigx/cli ≥ 0.9 and @sigx/terminal ≥ 0.11. On older versions the plugin's version guard warns and the dashboard never learns its pane size.

Two ways to reach a host#

Embedded (the default) loads your project's actor app module in-process and reads it directly. Zero config, no secret, and it sees strictly more than the wire can — full latency histograms, the whole activation list, the cluster placement itself.

It also starts a host. That host is real: it joins membership, claims actors and ticks reminders. Fine pointed at a dev app, wrong pointed at production.

HTTP (--url) polls a running host's ops() endpoint. It loads no user code and holds no host, so it is the mode for anything you did not just start yourself. --url wins over a local module.

Why the commands might not be there#

The sigx binary discovers plugins from the dependencies of the project you run it in. It reads ./package.json, looks for a sigx-cli field in each dependency's manifest, and calls the plugin's detect(cwd). Two things must be true in that directory:

  1. @sigx/actors-cli is in its dependencies or devDependencies;
  2. it depends on @sigx/actors — that is what detect looks for.
$ sigx actors top
error: Unknown command 'actors'

That is not a broken install. It is the CLI correctly declining to offer actor commands in a project that has no actors — sigx --help lists what it did find. Run it from the package that owns the host, or in a monorepo:

Terminal 
pnpm --filter my-app exec sigx actors top

Next steps#