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layout: "intro"
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page_title: "Web UI"
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sidebar_current: "gettingstarted-ui"
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---
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# Consul Web UI
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Consul comes with support for a
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[beautiful, functional web UI](http://demo.consul.io) out of the box.
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This UI can be used for viewing all services and nodes, viewing all
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health checks and their current status, and for reading and setting
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key/value data. The UI automatically supports multi-datacenter.
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For ease of deployment, the UI is
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[distributed](/downloads_web_ui.html)
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as static HTML and JavaScript.
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You don't need a separate web server to run the web UI. The Consul
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agent itself can be configured to serve the UI.
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## Screenshot and Demo
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You can view a live demo of the Consul Web UI
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[here](http://demo.consul.io).
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2014-05-01 18:25:27 +00:00
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While the live demo is able to access data from all datacenters,
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we've also setup demo endpoints in the specific datacenters:
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[AMS2](http://ams2.demo.consul.io) (Amsterdam),
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[SFO1](http://sfo1.demo.consul.io) (San Francisco),
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and [NYC1](http://ny1.demo.consul.io) (New York).
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A screenshot of one page of the demo is shown below so you can get an
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idea of what the web UI is like. Click the screenshot for the full size.
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<div class="center">
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<a href="/images/consul_web_ui.png">
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<img src="/images/consul_web_ui.png">
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</a>
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</div>
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## Set Up
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To set up the web UI,
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[download the web UI package](/downloads_web_ui.html)
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and unzip it to a directory somewhere on the server where the Consul agent
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is also being run. Then, just append the `-ui-dir` to the `consul agent`
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command pointing to the directory where you unzipped the UI (the
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directory with the `index.html` file):
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```
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$ consul agent -ui-dir /path/to/ui
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...
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```
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The UI is available at the `/ui` path on the same port as the HTTP API.
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By default this is `http://localhost:8500/ui`.
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