Access Mission Control’s User Interface (UI)

The UI is deployed as a web service on port 30880, and it can be accessed from any platform or database worker node on the control plane. You can open the UI service using any of the following methods:

Use a load balancer. DataStax recommends this option for production environments.
Use the IP address of a worker node.
Port-forward the web interface with the kubectl tool.

Load balancer
IP address
Port-forward

In production environments, DataStax recommends that you put the UI service behind a load balancer to direct traffic to all worker nodes on the control plane. This allows you to leverage the load balancer to ensure high availability in case a worker node fails.

Access the UI on a web browser with this URL:

https://LOADBALANCER_IP_ADDRESS:30880/

Replace LOADBALANCER_IP_ADDRESS with the IP address of your load balancer.

You can view the UI on a web browser using the IP address of any of the worker nodes using the following URL format:

https://IP_ADDRESS:30880

Replace IP_ADDRESS with the IP address of any worker node.

You can access the UI locally on your workstation with Kubernetes port-forwarding.

To forward traffic, follow these steps:

Run the kubectl port-forward command to forward traffic on local port 30880 to the remote UI pod’s port 8080.
```
kubectl port-forward svc/mission-control-ui -n mission-control 30880:8080
```
This opens a local port on your workstation to the remote cluster and forwards traffic to the appropriate services within the control plane.
Enter the following URL into your web browser to access the Mission Control UI through the host’s IP address.
```
https://localhost:30880/
```
Press Ctrl+C to terminate the port-forward command and disable UI access on the localhost. To enable local access to the UI again, rerun the port-forward command.

Access Mission Control’s User Interface (UI)

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