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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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description: |-
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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.
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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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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 [NYC3](http://nyc3.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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</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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```text
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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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