When comparing ElasticHQ vs elasticsearch-head, the Slant community recommends ElasticHQ for most people. In the question“What are the best Elasticsearch GUI clients?” ElasticHQ is ranked 2nd while elasticsearch-head is ranked 14th. 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 Available as a Chrome extension
See here.
Pro HTML-based
It's HTML & JavaScript.
Pro Comprehensive
Cluster & node info, list indices & documents, structured & JSON query.
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 Appears to be abandoned
