github.com/outbrain/consul@v1.4.5/website/source/intro/getting-started/ui.html.md (about) 1 --- 2 layout: "intro" 3 page_title: "Web UI" 4 sidebar_current: "gettingstarted-ui" 5 description: |- 6 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. 7 --- 8 9 # Consul Web UI 10 11 Consul comes with support for beautiful, functional web UIs out of the 12 box. UIs can be used for viewing all services and nodes, for viewing 13 all health checks and their current status, and for reading and setting 14 key/value data. The UIs automatically support multi-datacenter. 15 16 To set up the self-hosted UI, start the Consul agent with the 17 [`-ui` parameter](/docs/agent/options.html#_ui): 18 19 ```text 20 $ consul agent -ui 21 ... 22 ``` 23 24 The UI is available at the `/ui` path on the same port as the HTTP API. 25 By default this is `http://localhost:8500/ui`. 26 27 You can view a live demo of the Consul Web UI 28 [here](http://demo.consul.io). 29 30 ## How to Use the Legacy UI 31 32 As of Consul version 1.2.0 the original Consul UI is deprecated. You can 33 still enable it by setting the environment variable `CONSUL_UI_LEGACY` to `true`. 34 Without this environment variable, the web UI will default to the latest version. 35 To use the latest UI version, either set `CONSUL_UI_LEGACY` to false or don't 36 include that environment variable at all. 37 38 ## Next Steps 39 40 This concludes our Getting Started guide. See the 41 [next steps](next-steps.html) page to learn more about how to continue 42 your journey with Consul!