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| page_title: Inspecting Infrastructure - Terraform CLI |
| description: >- |
| Learn commands to inspect dependency information, outputs, etc. Use them for |
| integration or to understand your infrastructure. |
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| # Inspecting Infrastructure |
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| Terraform configurations and state data include some highly structured |
| information about the resources they manage; this includes dependency |
| information, outputs (which are pieces of generated or discovered data that the |
| configuration's author considers important enough to surface to users), and |
| more. |
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| Terraform CLI includes some commands for inspecting or transforming this data. |
| You can use these to integrate other tools with Terraform's infrastructure data, |
| or just to gain a deeper or more holistic understanding of your infrastructure. |
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| - [The `terraform graph` command](/cli/commands/graph) creates a visual |
| representation of a configuration or a set of planned changes. |
| - [The `terraform output` command](/cli/commands/output) can get the |
| values for the top-level [output values](/language/values/outputs) of |
| a configuration, which are often helpful when making use of the infrastructure |
| Terraform has provisioned. |
| - [The `terraform show` command](/cli/commands/show) can generate |
| human-readable versions of a state file or plan file, or generate |
| machine-readable versions that can be integrated with other tools. |
| - [The `terraform state list` command](/cli/commands/state/list) can list |
| the resources being managed by the current working directory and workspace, |
| providing a complete or filtered list. |
| - [The `terraform state show` command](/cli/commands/state/show) can print |
| all of the attributes of a given resource being managed by the current working |
| directory and workspace, including generated read-only attributes like the |
| unique ID assigned by the cloud provider. |
