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Launch the Apstra Flow Dashboard

Congratulations! You successfully installed and configured Apstra Flow on your network. Now you're ready to login to the Apstra Flow dashboard to begin analyzing and visualizing your data.
Note:

You can also access the Apstra Flow dashboard directly from your blueprint in the Apstra GUI. See Access the Apstra Flow Dashboard from the Apstra GUI for instructions.

To launch the Apstra Flow dashboard:
  1. From your browser, enter the IP address or hostname of your Apstra Flow VM.
    https://<ip-or-hostname-of-flow-data-vm>:5601/
  2. Login to the Apstra Flow dashboard.
    The default credentials are:

    • Username: admin

    • Password: Apstra-Flow5

    Note:

    We recommend that you change your password after you log in.

  3. From the Welcome page, select Explore on my own.
  4. From the OpenSearch Dashboards page, click Dismiss.
  5. Select Global as your tenant, then click Confirm.
  6. Click Visualize and Analyze.
  7. Click Dashboard from the OpenSearch Dashboards page.
  8. Search for Overview in the Dashboards search bar.
  9. Select Flow: Overview to see the main dashboard. From here, you can view the various dashboards to analyze and visualize your data. Each dashboard shows a different perspective of your network traffic. For example:

Access the Apstra Flow Dashboard from the Apstra GUI

Although Apstra Flow has its own dashboard, you can also link directly to the dashboard from the Apstra GUI.
To access the Apstra Flow dashboard:
  1. From the left navigation menu in the Apstra GUI, select Analytics > Flow Data > Flow Collector.
  2. Enter the collector name, address, and username, then click Create.
    This information tells Apstra where your VM is located so you can access the flow collector and visualization dashboards.
  3. From your blueprint, navigate to Analytics > Flow Data. Click Link to dashboard to link directly to the Flow dashboard.
For more details about Apstra Flow, see the Analytics chapter in the Juniper Apstra 5.0 User Guide.