Dev tools · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to ELKman

Elasticsearch management tools

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. ELKman launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   Pulse for Elasticsearch and OpenSearch▲556

   Search Cluster Monitoring & Maintenance, Redefined

   2025 · neverblink.ai · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Spectre Elasticsearch GUI▲64

   Multi-platform desktop elasticsearch GUI & management tool

   2021 · its alternatives →

3. 3OE
   OpenObserve – Elasticsearch/Datadog alternative▲198

   Hello folks, We are launching OpenObserve. An open source Elasticsearch/Splunk/Datadog alternative written in rust and vue that is super easy to get started with and has 140x lower storage cost compared to elasticsearch. It offers logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, alerts, functions (run aws lambda like functions during ingestion and query to enrich, redact, transform, normalize and whatever else you want to do. Think redacting email IDs from logs, adding geolocation based on IP address, etc). You can do all of this from the UI, no messing up with configuration files. OpenObserve…

   2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

4. 4GF
   GUI for Data Modeling with Elasticsearch▲74

   2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

5. 5GF
   GUI for writing Elasticsearch queries▲97

   2016 · appbaseio.github.io · its alternatives →

6. 6DA
   Dejavu – a modern, open-source data browser for Elasticsearch▲33

   2016 · appbaseio.github.io · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Elasticsearch DevTools for VS Code▲179

   IDE DevTools for Elasticsearch and OpenSearch, by Pulse

   Sep 2025 · neverblink.ai · its alternatives →

8. 8SE
   Supergiant Elasticsearch – Auto-Scalable and Automated ES DevOps▲22

   2016 · qbox.io · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Reactive Search 2.0▲276

   Elasticsearch UI components for React 📝

   2018 · its alternatives →

10. 10
    dejavu▲90

    A modern, open-source data browser for Elasticsearch.

    2016 · its alternatives →

11. 11IW
    I wrote a book about Elasticsearch▲66

    2021 · elasticsearchbook.com · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Akrew▲90

    Search all of your data

    2019 · its alternatives →

13. 13
    Keen Query Caching▲87

    Load custom dashboards and reports instantly

    2015 · its alternatives →

14. 14IB
    I built a simple, open-source tool to manage servers and SSH keys▲133

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

15. 15
    searchali.com▲2

    Monitoring Elasticsearch clusters from a Chrome extension

    Feb 2026 · searchali.com · its alternatives →

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    Swift ElasticSearch Client▲80

    Build search experiences for iOS and Mac apps

    2019 · its alternatives →

17. 17SA
    Shale – a Ruby object mapper and serializer for JSON, YAML and XML▲182

    2022 · shalerb.org · its alternatives →

18. 18MS
    Managing SSH Access to AWS EC2 Instances Using SSM▲131

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Searchkit▲156

    UI components for Elasticsearch

    2016 · its alternatives →

20. 20
    Dejavu V3▲130

    Web UI for Elasticsearch

    2018 · its alternatives →

21. 21
    Manticore Search▲63

    A faster alternative to Elasticsearch written in C++

    2022 · its alternatives →

22. 22ZP
    ZomboDB – Postgres extension for indexes backed by Elasticsearch▲88

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

23. 23
    Dockhand▲133

    Docker management for everyone

    22d ago · dockhand.pro · its alternatives →

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    Dejavu 2.0▲87

    Open-source data browser for Elasticsearch

    2017 · its alternatives →

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