When comparing Cerebro vs ElasticHQ, the Slant community recommends ElasticHQ for most people. In the question“What are the best Elasticsearch GUI clients?” ElasticHQ is ranked 2nd while Cerebro is ranked 5th. The most important reason people chose ElasticHQ is:
Can be deployed on AWS, Azure and any other cloud service.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Extensible
List of plugins at here.
Pro Clean visual design
Pro Cross platform is a HUGE plus
Pro Measurement conversion and calculator
Pro Navigate file system with previews
Pro Closest approximate to look/feel of macOS's Spotlight on Linux
Pro Cloud ready
Can be deployed on AWS, Azure and any other cloud service.
Pro Most comprehensive set of tools
Can manage and keep track of ES Datasets in real time, is cloud-ready and has been battle-tested by multiple large companies.
Pro Installation is easy
ElasticHQ is easy to install and accessible from your browser. Can be installed in just 2 commands and will remain running until shutdown. Installation docs can be found here.
Pro Real-Time Monitoring
ElasticHQ allows you to view real-time threads, individual cluster nodes, cluster runtime metrics, and configurations.
Pro Open source
Licensed under Apache 2 can be used and re-distributed without complications.
Pro Cluster management
Complete control over clusters, nodes, indexes, and mappings.
Cons
Con Development is not very active
Con Uses a lot of system resources
It's using a lot of system resources (it's an Electron app)
Con Plugin selection is small
Con No file system search
Con Not maintained anymore
Con Error when using SSL and Python 3.6+
This bug is under investigation but is not close to being solved. See here.