Starting the Operational Insights Front-End

This topic explains how to download and launch the Operational Insights Front-End. This tool is distributed as a standalone JAR file that starts a small webapp on port 8080. The webapp can be used to connect to the Operational Insights REST API that is part of the Integration Server in Elastic Path Commerce. The Operational Insights Front-End is compatible with all supported versions of Elastic Path Commerce.

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The Operational Insights API is available in Elastic Path Commerce 8.3.0 and later, but may also be available in earlier versions by consuming a patch. Check the changelog for your version of Elastic Path Commerce to determine if a patch is available.

Prerequisites

Ensure that you use Java 8 or later.

Procedure

Download the latest Operational Insights JAR.

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You will be prompted for credentials to download the JAR. Use the Nexus credentials for your organization. If you do not have the credentials, send an email to access@elasticpath.com.

Once you have successfully logged in, you will need to click the download link again to begin the download.
In a terminal, go to the folder where you downloaded the JAR and run the following command:
```
java -jar operational-insights-[VERSION].jar
```
Replace [VERSION] with the version of the tool that you downloaded.
Connect to http://localhost:8080/ in your browser.
Follow the steps in Connecting the Operational Insights Front-End to the API.