# Onboard to Incident Detection and Response with the IDR CLI
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The AWS Incident Detection and Response Customer Command Line Interface (IDR CLI) is a command line interface tool that streamlines onboarding to AWS Incident Detection and Response.

The IDR CLI runs in AWS CloudShell to perform the following functions:
+ Collect onboarding information
+ Gather AWS resource data through the Resource Groups Tagging API
+ Manage AWS Support cases
+ Create new Amazon CloudWatch alarms or ingest your existing ones
+ Deploy and test infrastructure through AWS CloudFormation to allow third-party tools to send alerts to Incident Detection and Response.

 The IDR CLI can run in an **interactive mode** to guide you through the onboarding steps, or in **offline mode** for bulk or DevOps use cases.

 For more information on how to use the IDR CLI, including installation, prerequisites, and end-to-end examples, see [CLI for AWS Incident Detection and Response](https://github.com/awslabs/CLI-for-AWS-Incident-Detection-and-Response).

## Language support for the IDR CLI
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AWS Incident Detection and Response is available in English, Japanese, Mandarin, and Korean.

## Alternative options for onboarding workloads
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If you can't use the IDR CLI for onboarding, consult your Technical Account Manager (TAM) for alternative options. For more information, see [Workload onboarding questionnaire in Incident Detection and Response (exception path)](idr-gs-questionnaire.md).