When comparing ElasticHQ vs Kaizen, the Slant community recommends ElasticHQ for most people. In the question“What are the best Elasticsearch GUI clients?” ElasticHQ is ranked 2nd while Kaizen is ranked 7th. 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 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.
Pro Cross-platform desktop application
Windows, Mac and Linux.
Pro Free for personal use
Not for businesses though.
Cons
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.
Con Subscription costs 99 EUR per year
Con Soon will be unsupported
Website says end of support is December 2020
Con Doesn't support latest version of Elasticsearch
Last supported version is 7.6
Con Can't open on mac
Get an error saying it's from an unidentified developer.
Con Very primitive query language, no normal JSON viewer
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