I Started NiFi. Now What?

Now that NiFi has been started, we can bring up the User Interface (UI) in order to create and monitor our dataflow. To get started, open a web browser and navigate to http://localhost:8080/nifi. The port can be changed by editing the nifi.properties file in the NiFi conf directory, but the default port is 8080.

This will bring up the User Interface, which at this point is a blank canvas for orchestrating a dataflow:

The UI has multiple tools to create and manage your first dataflow:

The Global Menu contains the following options: