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Viewing a deployment in NiFi

From the Cloudera Data Flow UI, you can access the NiFi cluster hosting your deployment and view or edit the flows running on it.

When you access the NiFi cluster, the ability to view or edit the flow is based on your Cloudera Data Flow authorizations. The DFFlowUser role has read-only privileges. The DFFlowAdmin role has full privileges.

You must have a deployed flow in Cloudera Data Flow.
  1. Open Cloudera Data Flow by clicking the Data Flow tile in the Cloudera sidebar.
  2. Click Deployments from the left navigation pane.
    The Deployments page is displayed, by default the Deployments tab is active.


  3. Select a deployment to expand the Deployment & Flows pane where you can view deployment details, KPIs, system metrics, alerts, and event history information. This is the view where you can also access flows on that specific deployment.
  4. Click Actions > View in NiFi.

    The Apache NiFi UI opens, displaying the root process group.

  5. View your data flow or edit it based on your NiFi privileges.

    If you edit the flow in NiFi and want the changes to exist in a new deployment, perform the following steps:

    1. Download the flow as a flow definition.
      For more information, see Downloading a flow definition from NiFi.
    2. Import the flow definition (as a new flow definition or as a new version of an existing flow definition).
      For more information, see Importing a flow definition to Cloudera Data Flow.
    3. Deploy the flow definition.
      For more information, see Deploy a flow.