Walkthrough of the Storm UI

This section will show you how we can start the Storm UI daemon. However, before starting the Storm UI daemon, we assume that you have a running Storm cluster. The Storm cluster deployment steps are mentioned in the previous sections of this chapter. Now, go to the Storm home directory (cd $STORM_HOME) at the leader Nimbus machine and run the following command to start the Storm UI daemon:

$> cd $STORM_HOME
$> bin/storm ui &  

By default, the Storm UI starts on the 8080 port of the machine where it is started. Now, we will browse to the http://nimbus-node:8080 page to view the Storm UI, where Nimbus node is the IP address or hostname of the the Nimbus machine.

The following is a screenshot of the Storm home page: