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title: Quick start to data collection
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seotitle: Quick start to data collection
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description: >
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Use Quick Start to create a scraper to collect InfluxDB metrics into a bucket.
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menu:
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v2_0:
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name: Quick start to data collection
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parent: Collect data
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weight: 1
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---
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>**Note:** The steps below are available on a page that appears after you complete the initial configuration described in [Set up InfluxDB](/v2.0/get-started/#setup-influxdb). After clicking one of the three options, the page is no longer available.
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>If you missed the change to select Quick Start or you want to learn how to configure a scraper yourself, see [Scrape data using the /metrics endpoint](influxdb/v2.0/collect-data/scraper-endpoint/).
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## Use **Quick Start** to collect InfluxDB metrics
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When you start InfluxDB 2.0 for the first time, you are guided to configure a user, an organization, and a bucket (see [Set up InfluxDB](/v2.0/get-started/#setup-influxdb)). After completing the setup, the next page displays "Let's start collecting data!" and three options.
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On this page, click **Quick Start**.
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The following message appears in a popup alert:
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`The InfluxDB Scraper has been configured for http://localhost:9999/metrics.`
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Behind the scenes, here's what happened:
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1. InfluxDB 2.0 configured a scraper named "InfluxDB Scraper."
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* The target URL points to the `/metrics` HTTP endpoint of your
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local InfluxDB instance: http://localhost:9999/metrics. The `/metrics` HTTP endpoint monitors your InfluxDB instance, collects metrics from it, and provides the data in the [Prometheus data format](https://prometheus.io/docs/instrumenting/exposition_formats/).
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* The bucket configured to collect the scraped data is the initial
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bucket that you named previously in [Set up InfluxDB](/v2.0/get-started/#setup-influxdb).
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2. The InfluxDB Scraper immediately started collecting InfluxDB data and
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writing it into your bucket.
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To see a sample of the data being collected in Prometheus format, you can use one of the following methods to display a sample of the exposed InfluxDB metrics in the Prometheus text-based format:
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* In a web browser, open the InfluxDB Scraper URL (http://localhost:9999/metrics).
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* In a terminal window, run the following cURL command: `curl http://localhost:9999/metrics`.
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## Next steps
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Now that you have a bucket of data ready for exploration, you can:
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* **Query data.** To get started querying the data stored in InfluxDB buckets using the InfluxDB user interface (UI) and the `influx` command line interface (CLI), see [Query data in InfluxDB](/v2.0/query-data).
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* **Process data.** To learn about creating tasks for processing and analyzing data, see [Process data with InfluxDB tasks](/v2.0/process-data)
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* **Visualize data.** To learn how to build dashboards for visualizing your data, see [Visualize data with the InfluxDB UI](/v2.0/visualize-data).
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