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Use Quick Start to collect InfluxDB metrics

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). After completing the setup, the next page displays "Let's start collecting data!" and three options.

On this page, click Quick Start. The following message briefly appears in a pop-up alert:

"The InfluxDB Scraper has been configured for http://localhost:9999/metrics."

Behind the scenes, here's what happened:

1. InfluxDB 2.0 configured a scraper named "InfluxDB Scraper."

• The target URL points to the /metrics HTTP endpoint of your 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.
• InfluxDB stores the scraped data in the default bucket created in the initial setup procedure.

2. The InfluxDB Scraper immediately started collecting InfluxDB data and writing it into your bucket.

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:

• In a web browser, open the InfluxDB Scraper URL (http://localhost:9999/metrics).

• In a terminal window, run the following cURL command:

curl  http://localhost:9999/metrics

Next steps

Now that you have data ready for exploration, you can:

• 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.

• Process data. To learn about creating tasks for processing and analyzing data, see Process data with InfluxDB tasks

• Visualize data. To learn how to build dashboards for visualizing your data, see Visualize data with the InfluxDB UI.