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title: Command-line operations
description: Command-line tools for managing payload logging encryption keys.
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# Command-line operations

The Cloudflare [matched-data-cli ↗](https://github.com/cloudflare/matched-data-cli) command-line tool supports several tasks related to payload logging.

[Download ↗](https://github.com/cloudflare/matched-data-cli/releases) the `matched-data-cli` tool for your platform from the **Releases** page on GitHub. Alternatively, build the tool from source by following the instructions in the GitHub repository.

Use the tool to:

* [ Generate a key pair ](https://developers.cloudflare.com/waf/managed-rules/payload-logging/command-line/generate-key-pair/)
* [ Decrypt the payload content ](https://developers.cloudflare.com/waf/managed-rules/payload-logging/command-line/decrypt-payload/)

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