---
title: "calicoctl bgp"
description: "Reference overview of the calicoctl BGP subcommands in Calico Enterprise for inspecting BGP peer state."
product: "Calico Enterprise"
version: "3.23 (latest)"
section: "Reference"
canonical_url: "https://docs.tigera.io/calico-enterprise/latest/reference/clis/calicoctl/bgp/overview"
---

# calicoctl bgp

This section describes the `calicoctl bgp` commands.

Read the [calicoctl Overview](https://docs.tigera.io/calico-enterprise/latest/reference/clis/calicoctl/overview.md) for a full list of calicoctl commands.

## Displaying the help text for 'calicoctl bgp' commands

Run `calicoctl bgp --help` to display the following help menu for the commands.

```text
Usage:
  calicoctl bgp <command> [<args>...]

    peers            Display information about BGP peers for a specific node.

Options:
  -h --help      Show this screen.

Description:
  Commands for accessing BGP related information.

  See 'calicoctl bgp <command> --help' to read about a specific subcommand.
```

## Cluster specific commands

Details on the `calicoctl bgp` commands are described in the documents linked below organized by sub command.

- [calicoctl bgp diags](https://docs.tigera.io/calico-enterprise/latest/reference/clis/calicoctl/cluster/diags.md)