# How to Connect

# Connecting with ClickHouse GUI

Tabix is a lightweight browser-based GUI for ClickHouse that lets you browse tables, write queries, and manage your ClickHouse instance using a preconfigured admin dashboard provided by Elestio.

### **Variables**

To connect using Tabix, you’ll need the following login credentials. When you deploy a ClickHouse service on Elestio, a Tabix dashboard is automatically created and configured for you. These credentials are available in the Elestio service overview page:

<table border="1" id="bkmrk-variable-description" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><thead><tr><th style="border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">**Variable**

</th><th style="border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">**Description**

</th><th style="border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">**Purpose**

</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td style="border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">USER

</td><td style="border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Tabix login username

</td><td style="border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Identifies the user with access permission to Tabix GUI.

</td></tr><tr><td style="border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">PASSWORD

</td><td style="border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Tabix login password

</td><td style="border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Authentication key for the USER to access the Tabix dashboard.

</td></tr></tbody></table>

You can find these values in your Elestio project dashboard under the <span class="s1">**Admin**</span> section.

[![image.png](https://docs.elest.io/uploads/images/gallery/2025-06/scaled-1680-/lA0image.png)](https://docs.elest.io/uploads/images/gallery/2025-06/lA0image.png)

### **Prerequisites**

Make sure the ClickHouse service is correctly deployed on Elestio and you are able to access the <span class="s1">**Admin**</span> section of the service overview page, which includes the Tabix dashboard URL and login credentials.

### **Setting Up the Connection**

1. Launch Tabix from the <span class="s1">**Admin UI URL**</span> shown in your Elestio service.
2. Enter the provided <span class="s1">**username**</span> and <span class="s1">**password**</span>.
3. Click <span class="s1">**Login**</span>.

[![image.png](https://docs.elest.io/uploads/images/gallery/2025-06/scaled-1680-/eFsimage.png)](https://docs.elest.io/uploads/images/gallery/2025-06/eFsimage.png)

If the login is successful, Tabix will open directly into the SQL query interface where you can run queries, browse tables, and manage your ClickHouse schema and data.

[![image.png](https://docs.elest.io/uploads/images/gallery/2025-06/scaled-1680-/TT0image.png)](https://docs.elest.io/uploads/images/gallery/2025-06/TT0image.png)