Can I create my own Ui to visualise Consul?

Consul
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Hi,

I’ve been looking for an api or sdk to get values from Consul. I need to create my own UI to report systems… I’m just new at Consul and couldn’t understand I could do this or not?

If anyone could redirect me, would be great!

Thanks,
Hus

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Using the Consul UI with proper ACLs is not an option for you?

There are also Open Source UIs like hashi-ui, which may be a good starting point.

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I think what he wants to achieve is a dashboard in an existing monitoring/ reporting system.

@atasoyh: do you need something like this? Consul Monitoring dashboard for Grafana | Grafana Labs

And if so what’s the target (reporting) system? If you need metrics, this should help: Monitor Consul Datacenter Health | Consul - HashiCorp Learn

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I need to show all the env’s services in a table. So we will be able to compare them. And there is a couple of customisation request, too.

I could get a response to list all services via /v1/internal/ui/services… I could find it from Consul Ui’s network logging… If there is an api with documentation which I can fetch and format the data would be great.

I might sound odd, but this is first day I’m looking what Consul is…:slight_smile:

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Something like this?

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Thanks for those. I’ve seen there is an api and some documentations.

I think Discovery Chain - HTTP API | Consul by HashiCorp is helpful to get each services data? but I am still unsure it’s the right one. And I couldn’t understand how to read that services list like v1/internal/ui/services ?

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And also if there is something like swagger which I can see response, description and fields’s types would be great :slight_smile: I might be asking too much.

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Ok, I found Catalog - HTTP API | Consul by HashiCorp and v1/catalog/services which returns services as key/value pairs. Apparently, the key is representing the service name and the value is Tags I assume…
So digging in progress!