Introducing the admin UI
The CockroachDB admin UI comes by default, and you don't need any special setup to configure one. The admin UI can be accessed from any node within the cluster using the IP address or the hostname of the node and the port that's configured using the --http-addr flag, for example, --http-addr=localhost:8080. If this flag is not configured, then the admin UI is available through the IP address or hostname specified in --listen-addr and the default port 8080.
The cluster overview is the landing page in the UI, as shown in the following screenshot:
Figure 8.1 – Landing page in the UI – Cluster overview
With regard to the metrics, all the information in the UI can be viewed at either the individual node level or at the cluster level. You can see that there is a dropdown in the UI that lets you select individual nodes or the cluster itself, as shown in the following screenshot. In the case of a cluster, the stats...
