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Select **Quick Start** in the last step of the InfluxDB user interface's (UI)
[setup process](/v2.0/get-started/#setup-influxdb) to quickly start collecting data with InfluxDB.
[setup process](/v2.0/get-started/#set-up-influxdb) to quickly start collecting data with InfluxDB.
Quick Start creates a data scraper that collects metrics from the InfluxDB `/metrics` endpoint.
The scraped data provides a robust dataset of internal InfluxDB metrics that you can query, visualize, and process.
## Use Quick Start to collect InfluxDB metrics
After [initializing InfluxDB v2.0](/v2.0/get-started/#setup-influxdb),
After [setting up InfluxDB v2.0](/v2.0/get-started/#set-up-influxdb),
the "Let's start collecting data!" page displays options for collecting data.
Click **Quick Start**.
InfluxDB creates and configures a new [scraper](/v2.0/collect-data/scrape-data/).
The target URL points to the `/metrics` HTTP endpoint of your local InfluxDB instance (e.g. `http://localhost:9999/metrics`),
which outputs internal InfluxDB metrics in the [Prometheus data format](https://prometheus.io/docs/instrumenting/exposition_formats/).
It stores the scraped metrics in the bucket created during the [initial setup process](/v2.0/get-started/#setup-influxdb).
It stores the scraped metrics in the bucket created during the [initial setup process](/v2.0/get-started/#set-up-influxdb).
The following message briefly appears in the UI:

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Variables are scoped by organization.
## Use dashboard variables
Both [predefined dashboard variables](#predefined-dashboard-variables) and [custom dashboard variables](#manage-custom-variables)
Both [predefined dashboard variables](#predefined-dashboard-variables) and [custom dashboard variables](#custom-dashboard-variables)
are stored in a `v` object associated with each dashboard.
Reference each variable using dot-notation (e.g. `v.variableName`).

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{{< nav-icon "data-explorer" >}}
2. Click **Script Editor** on the lower right.
3. Build the query for your variable using the [Table visualization type](v2.0/visualize-data/visualization-types/#table) or enable the **View Raw Data** option.
3. Build the query for your variable using the [Table visualization type](/v2.0/visualize-data/visualization-types/#table) or enable the **View Raw Data** option.
4. Click **Save As** in the upper right.
5. In the window that appears, select **Variable**.
6. Enter a name for your variable in the **Name** field.