# The Admin Panel

> Find your way in the admin panel of API Maker - sign in, the four groups of pages of the home page, the menus, the search, the command palette, the guided tour and the sample shop of a new account.

Source: https://docs.apimaker.dev/v4/docs/getting-started/admin-panel.html

The admin panel is where you build everything : you connect databases, design tables, write code, test APIs and watch what happens. It runs in your browser, and API Maker serves it.

> **In short**
>
> - Sign in with your email, your password and the letters of the picture.
> - The home page has four groups of pages : **APIs & Logic**, **Security**, **Database** and **Operations**.
> - Press **⌘K** (**Ctrl K** on Windows and Linux) to jump to any page.

- Video: [API Maker Admin Panel Tour: Find Any Page in Two Keystrokes](https://apimaker.dev/videos/admin-panel-tour) (4 min)

## Sign in

Open the address of the admin panel. On your computer, Launchpad shows it on the dashboard of the project : `http://127.0.0.1:4626` by default.

[![The sign-in card of the admin panel : email, password, captcha and Login](https://docs.apimaker.dev/assets/images/screens/panel-login.webp)](https://docs.apimaker.dev/assets/images/screens/panel-login.webp)

1. Your email.
2. Your password.
3. Type the letters of the picture.
4. **Login**.

Type your email and your password, then the letters of the picture : that is the captcha. Press **Login**. Launchpad shows the email and password of the **Admin** user. On a server, change the passwords before anyone else can reach it : see [Before you go live](https://docs.apimaker.dev/v4/docs/security/go-live.html).

## The home page

[![The home page of the admin panel : four groups of pages and a search box](https://docs.apimaker.dev/assets/images/screens/panel-dashboard.webp)](https://docs.apimaker.dev/assets/images/screens/panel-dashboard.webp)

1. **Search** : type a word, the pages that match stay lit.
2. **APIs & Logic** : your APIs and your code.
3. **Security** : who may call what, secrets, the security report.
4. **Database** : tables, indexes, migrations.
5. **Operations** : logs, analytics, Git, backups, servers.

| Group | What you do there |
|---|---|
| **APIs & Logic** | Connect your databases (**Instance API**). Write custom APIs, events, schedulers and WebSocket events. Try any API in **API Testing**. |
| **Security** | Who may call what (**API User Permissions**, **API Group Permissions**), the sign-in of your users, your secrets, and the security report. |
| **Database** | The diagram of your tables, their indexes, and migration scripts. |
| **Operations** | Analytics, logs, servers, Git, backups and upgrades of API Maker. |

## Menus and search

[![The APIs and Logic menu of the top bar of the admin panel](https://docs.apimaker.dev/assets/images/screens/panel-menu.webp)](https://docs.apimaker.dev/assets/images/screens/panel-menu.webp)

1. The menus of the top bar reach every page from anywhere.
2. The pages of that group.

- **The menus** of the top bar reach every page, from any page.
- **The search box** of the home page lights up the pages that match what you type.
- **⌘K** (**Ctrl K**) opens the command palette : type a few letters of a page, then press Enter.
- **?** on any page numbers its controls and says what each one does.

## The sample shop

A new account is not empty. It holds a **sample shop** to read and to try : an instance named `mongodb`, the tables of a shop (categories, customers, products, orders), custom APIs, hooks and an event. [Your first API](https://docs.apimaker.dev/v4/docs/getting-started/first-api.html) uses it.

## The guided tour

The panel has a guided tour. Press the **route icon** in the top bar to open it. It gives one small task at a time, on the real pages, and rings the control to press. A step ticks itself once it is done. Its first steps take a new account to a working API : the same path as these pages.

- **Clean start**, its first step, removes the sample shop. Keep the sample if you follow these docs.
- **Tour data** : see below.
- The tour can be switched off in its own window. The icon stays, so you can come back.

### Tour data

Right after your database answers, the tour offers **tour data** : a small shop of customers, products and orders, made in a new database the way your kind of database works. Every next step then has rows to show. The same step removes it in one click. It never touches your own tables.