diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 64e955b..db4e761 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -2,6 +2,114 @@
 # It is not intended for manual editing.
 version = 3
 
+[[package]]
+name = "ansi_term"
+version = "0.11.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "ee49baf6cb617b853aa8d93bf420db2383fab46d314482ca2803b40d5fde979b"
+dependencies = [
+ "winapi",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "atty"
+version = "0.2.14"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "d9b39be18770d11421cdb1b9947a45dd3f37e93092cbf377614828a319d5fee8"
+dependencies = [
+ "hermit-abi",
+ "libc",
+ "winapi",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "bitflags"
+version = "1.3.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "bef38d45163c2f1dde094a7dfd33ccf595c92905c8f8f4fdc18d06fb1037718a"
+
+[[package]]
+name = "clap"
+version = "2.33.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "37e58ac78573c40708d45522f0d80fa2f01cc4f9b4e2bf749807255454312002"
+dependencies = [
+ "ansi_term",
+ "atty",
+ "bitflags",
+ "strsim",
+ "textwrap",
+ "unicode-width",
+ "vec_map",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "hermit-abi"
+version = "0.1.19"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "62b467343b94ba476dcb2500d242dadbb39557df889310ac77c5d99100aaac33"
+dependencies = [
+ "libc",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "libc"
+version = "0.2.103"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "dd8f7255a17a627354f321ef0055d63b898c6fb27eff628af4d1b66b7331edf6"
+
+[[package]]
+name = "strsim"
+version = "0.8.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "8ea5119cdb4c55b55d432abb513a0429384878c15dde60cc77b1c99de1a95a6a"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "subbeat"
-version = "0.0.1"
+version = "0.0.2"
+dependencies = [
+ "clap",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "textwrap"
+version = "0.11.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "d326610f408c7a4eb6f51c37c330e496b08506c9457c9d34287ecc38809fb060"
+dependencies = [
+ "unicode-width",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "unicode-width"
+version = "0.1.9"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "3ed742d4ea2bd1176e236172c8429aaf54486e7ac098db29ffe6529e0ce50973"
+
+[[package]]
+name = "vec_map"
+version = "0.8.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "f1bddf1187be692e79c5ffeab891132dfb0f236ed36a43c7ed39f1165ee20191"
+
+[[package]]
+name = "winapi"
+version = "0.3.9"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "5c839a674fcd7a98952e593242ea400abe93992746761e38641405d28b00f419"
+dependencies = [
+ "winapi-i686-pc-windows-gnu",
+ "winapi-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "winapi-i686-pc-windows-gnu"
+version = "0.4.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "ac3b87c63620426dd9b991e5ce0329eff545bccbbb34f3be09ff6fb6ab51b7b6"
+
+[[package]]
+name = "winapi-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu"
+version = "0.4.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
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diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 34d0524..ed61ccc 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "subbeat"
-version = "0.0.1"
+version = "0.0.2"
 edition = "2018"
 
 license = "MIT OR Apache-2.0"
@@ -13,3 +13,4 @@ readme = "README.md"
 # See more keys and their definitions at https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/manifest.html
 
 [dependencies]
+clap = "2.33.3"
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3be827e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+pub mod metric;
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index bc9c703..06437ed 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -1,3 +1,16 @@
+use clap::{Arg, App, SubCommand};
+
 fn main() {
-    println!("welcom from subbeat, work in progress");
+    let matches = App::new("My Super Program")
+                          .version("0.0.2")
+                          .about("Timeseries toolkit")
+                          .arg(Arg::with_name("INPUT")
+                          .help("Sets the input file to use")
+                               .required(true)
+                               .index(1))
+                               .get_matches();
+
+    let input = matches.value_of("INPUT").unwrap();
+
+    println!("input file for influxdb {}", input);
 }
diff --git a/src/metric.rs b/src/metric.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..56978af
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/metric.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+use std::collections::HashMap;
+
+
+pub type MetricId = String;
+
+struct DatasourceParams {
+    db: String,
+    q: String,
+    epoch: String
+}
+
+struct Datasource {
+    url: String,
+    dtype: String,
+    params: Option<DatasourceParams>,
+    data: Option<HashMap<String, String>>,
+    datasource_id: Option<String>
+}
+
+struct MetricQuery {
+    url: String,
+    method: String,
+    schema: HashMap<String, String>,
+    headers: Option<HashMap<String, String>>
+  }
+
+trait Metric {
+    fn query();
+}
\ No newline at end of file