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description: How to setup and configure the HTTP listener.
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# HTTP Listeners

The VerneMQ HTTP listener is used to serve various VerneMQ subsystems such as:

* [Status page](../monitoring/status)
* [Prometheus metrics](../monitoring/prometheus)
* [management API](https://github.com/gojek/vmq-docs/blob/master/live-administration/http-administration.md)
* [Health check](../monitoring/health-check)

By default it runs on port `8888`. To disable the HTTP listener or change the port, adapt the configuration in `vernemq.conf`:

```
listener.http.default = 127.0.0.1:8888
```
