Web Interface

When you start using ArangoDB in your project, you will likely use an official or community-made driver written in the same language as your project. Drivers implement a programming interface that should feel natural for that programming language, and do all the talking to the server. Therefore, you can most certainly ignore the HTTP API unless you want to write a driver yourself or explicitly want to use the raw interface.

To get familiar with the database system you can even put drivers aside and use the web interface (code name Aardvark) for basic interaction. The web interface will become available shortly after you started . You can access it in your browser at http://localhost:8529 - if not, please see .

Next you will be asked which database to use. Every server instance comes with a database. Select this database to continue.

You should then be presented the dashboard with server statistics like this: