elasticvue

Elasticsearch gui for your browser https://elasticvue.com

Elasticsearch is a trademark of Elasticsearch BV, registered in the U.S. and in other countries.

Contents

1. About
2. Usage
3. Browser support
4. Troubleshooting
5. Comparing with other frontends
6. i18n
7. Contributing

About

Screenshots

Elasticvue is a free and open-source gui for elasticsearch that you can use to manage the data in your cluster. It supports every version of elasticsearch, even those that are EOL. Check the FAQ for more details.

Features

• Cluster overview
• Index & alias management
• Shard management
• Searching and editing documents
• Rest queries
• Snapshot & repository management
• ... and much more

Usage

You can use elasticvue in several ways, use whatever works best for you.

Type	Auto Update	Cluster config	Support for self signed ssl
Desktop app	Yes	not needed	yes
Browser extension	Yes	not needed	partially
Web	Yes	required	partially
Self hosted	No	required	partially
Docker	No	required	partially

Desktop App - recommended

• Windows .msi
• Homebrew / Mac x68 .dmg / Mac aarch64 .dmg
• Linux .AppImage / Arch AUR

Browser extension

• Google chrome
• Firefox
• Microsoft Edge

Web version

You have to configure your elasticsearch cluster if you want to use elasticvue via docker

Visit https://app.elasticvue.com.

Self-hosted

You have to configure your elasticsearch cluster if you want to self host elasticvue

Please check the wiki for more information.

Docker

You have to configure your elasticsearch cluster if you want to use elasticvue via docker

Use the existing image:

# docker hub:
docker run -p 8080:8080 --name elasticvue -d cars10/elasticvue

# ghcr.io:
docker run -p 8080:8080 --name elasticvue -d ghcr.io/cars10/elasticvue

When using docker you can provide default cluster configuration for your users. Clusters will automatically be imported every time you start elasticvue. You can either set an environment variable or provide a config file as a volume. In either case the content should be a json array of your clusters, looking like this:

[
  {
    "name": "dev cluster",
    "uri": "http://localhost:9200"
  },
  {
    "name": "prod cluster",
    "uri": "http://localhost:9501",
    "username": "elastic",
    "password": "foobar"
  }
]

Possible keys

Name	Value	Required	Example
name	Name of the cluster	No	"production"
uri	Cluster uri	Yes	"http://localhost:9200"
username	Username for basic authentication	No	"elastic"
password	Password for basic authentication	No	"foobar"
apiKey	API key for authentication	No	"VuaCfGcBCdbkQm-e5aOx:ui2lp2axTNm5ShWDc11v6g"
S3accessKeyId	AWS access key ID for IAM authentication	No	"AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE"
S3secretAccessKey	AWS secret access key for IAM authentication	No	"wJalrXUtnFEMI/K7MDENG/bPxRfiCYEXAMPLEKEY"
S3sessionToken	AWS session token for temporary credentials	No	"FQoGZXIvYXdzE...example"
S3region	AWS region for IAM authentication	No	"us-east-1"

Docker with default clusters in environment variable

Example using environment variable ELASTICVUE_CLUSTERS:

docker run -p 8080:8080 -e ELASTICVUE_CLUSTERS='[{"name": "prod cluster", "uri": "http://localhost:9200", "username": "elastic", "password": "elastic"}]' cars10/elasticvue

Docker with default clusters in config file via volume

Example using config file volume to /usr/share/nginx/html/api/default_clusters.json:

echo '[{"name": "prod cluster", "uri": "http://localhost:9200", "username": "elastic", "password": "elastic"}]' > config.json
docker run -p 8080:8080 -v config.json:/usr/share/nginx/html/api/default_clusters.json cars10/elasticvue

Elasticsearch configuration

You have to enable CORS to allow connection to your elasticsearch cluster if you do not use the desktop app or the browser extensions.

Find your elasticsearch configuration (for example /etc/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.yml) and add the following lines:

# enable CORS
http.cors.enabled: true

# Then set the allowed origins based on how you run elasticvue. Chose only one:
# for docker / running locally
http.cors.allow-origin: "http://localhost:8080"
# online version
http.cors.allow-origin: /https?:\/\/app.elasticvue.com/

# and if your cluster uses authorization you also have to add:
http.cors.allow-headers: X-Requested-With,Content-Type,Content-Length,Authorization

If you use docker to run your elasticsearch cluster you can pass the options via environment variables:

docker run -p 9200:9200 \
           -e "discovery.type=single-node" \
           -e "http.cors.enabled=true" \
           -e "http.cors.allow-origin=/.*/" \
           -e "http.cors.allow-headers=X-Requested-With,Content-Type,Content-Length,Authorization" \
           docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:9.0.0

or compose.yml

services:
  elasticsearch:
    image: docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:9.0.0
    ports:
      - "9200:9200"
    environment:
      - http.cors.enabled=true
      - http.cors.allow-origin="/.*/"
      - http.cors.allow-headers=X-Requested-With,Content-Type,Content-Length,Authorization
      - discovery.type=single-node

After configuration restart your cluster and you should be able to connect.

Browser Support

Any current version of Chrome, Firefox and Edge should work without issues. Safari is mostly untested so your mileage may vary.

Troubleshooting

Before opening an issue please try to reset elasticvue to its default settings:

1. Open the settings
2. Download a backup of your current elasticvue data
3. Click Disconnect and reset

This will reset all your saved filters, and you have to reconnect to your cluster. Please open an issue if your problem persists.

Comparing with other frontends

See the Wiki. Comparing to other frontends

i18n

Elasticvue is available in the following languages:

• english
• chinese
• french
• russian
• japanese
• italian

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md.

License

MIT