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page_title: "Web UI" page_title: "Web UI"
sidebar_current: "gettingstarted-ui" sidebar_current: "gettingstarted-ui"
description: |- description: |-
Consul comes with support for a beautiful, functional web UI out of the box. This UI can be used for viewing all services and nodes, viewing all health checks and their current status, and for reading and setting key/value data. The UI automatically supports multi-datacenter. Consul comes with support for beautiful, functional web UIs out of the box. UIs can be used for viewing all services and nodes, for viewing all health checks and their current status, and for reading and setting key/value data. The UIs automatically supports multi-datacenter.
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# Consul Web UI # Consul Web UI
Consul comes with support for a beautiful, functional web UI. Consul comes with support for beautiful, functional web UIs out of the
The UI can be used for viewing all services and nodes, viewing all box. UIs can be used for viewing all services and nodes, for viewing
health checks and their current status, and for reading and setting all health checks and their current status, and for reading and setting
key/value data. The UI automatically supports multi-datacenter. key/value data. The UIs automatically support multi-datacenter.
There are two options for running a web UI for Consul. The first option is self-hosting and using the [open-source UI](/downloads.html), the second option is using [Atlas by HashiCorp](https://atlas.hashicorp.com) to host the dashboard for you. There are two options for running a web UI for Consul. The first option
is self-hosting the [open-source UI](/downloads.html); the second option
is using [Atlas by HashiCorp](https://atlas.hashicorp.com) to host the
dashboard for you.
## Atlas-hosted Dashboard ## Atlas-hosted Dashboard
To setup the Atlas UI for Consul, you must add two fields to your configuration — the name of your Atlas infrastructure and your Atlas token. Below is an example configuration:
<div class="center">
![Atlas Web UI](atlas_web_ui.png)
</div>
To set up the Atlas UI for Consul, you must add two fields to your
configuration: the
[name of your Atlas infrastructure](/docs/agent/options.html#_atlas)
and [your Atlas token](/docs/agent/options.html#_atlas_token). Below is
an example command-line invocation of the Consul agent providing these
settings:
```text ```text
$ consul agent -atlas=ATLAS_USERNAME/demo -atlas-token="ATLAS_TOKEN" $ consul agent -atlas=ATLAS_USERNAME/demo -atlas-token="ATLAS_TOKEN"
``` ```
To get an Atlas username and token,
[create an account](https://atlas.hashicorp.com/account/new?utm_source=oss&utm_medium=getting-started-ui&utm_campaign=consul)
and replace the respective values in your Consul configuration with
your credentials.
To get an Atlas username and token, [create an account here](https://atlas.hashicorp.com/account/new?utm_source=oss&utm_medium=getting-started-ui&utm_campaign=consul) and replace the respective values in your Consul configuration with your credentials. You can view a live demo
[here](https://atlas.hashicorp.com/hashicorp/infrastructures/consul-demo).
You can view a live demo of the Atlas UI [here](https://atlas.hashicorp.com/hashicorp/infrastructures/consul-demo).
A screenshot of one page of the demo is shown below so you can get an ## Self-hosted Dashboard
idea of what the web UI is like.
<div class="center"> <div class="center">
![Atlas Web UI](atlas_web_ui.png) ![Consul Web UI](consul_web_ui.png)
</div> </div>
## Self-hosted Dashboard To set up the self-hosted UI, [download the web UI package](/downloads.html)
To set up the self-hosted UI, and unzip it to a directory somewhere on a system with a Consul agent
[download the web UI package](/downloads.html) install. Restart the Consul agent, and append a
and unzip it to a directory somewhere on the server where the Consul agent [`-ui-dir` parameter](/docs/agent/options.html#_ui_dir)
is also being run. Then append the `-ui-dir` to the `consul agent` pointing to the directory where you unzipped the UI (that is, the
command pointing to the directory where you unzipped the UI (the directory containing the `index.html` file):
directory with the `index.html` file):
```text ```text
$ consul agent -ui-dir /path/to/ui $ consul agent -ui-dir /path/to/ui
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The UI is available at the `/ui` path on the same port as the HTTP API. The UI is available at the `/ui` path on the same port as the HTTP API.
By default this is `http://localhost:8500/ui`. By default this is `http://localhost:8500/ui`.
-datacenter.
You can view a live demo of the Consul Web UI You can view a live demo of the Consul Web UI
[here](http://demo.consul.io). [here](http://demo.consul.io).
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[SFO1](http://sfo1.demo.consul.io) (San Francisco), [SFO1](http://sfo1.demo.consul.io) (San Francisco),
and [NYC3](http://nyc3.demo.consul.io) (New York). and [NYC3](http://nyc3.demo.consul.io) (New York).
A screenshot of one page of the demo is shown below so you can get an ## Next Steps
idea of what the web UI is like. Click the screenshot for the full size.
<div class="center"> This concludes our Getting Started guide. See the
![Consul Web UI](consul_web_ui.png) [next steps](next-steps.html) page to learn more about how to continue
</div> your journey with Consul!

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