Dev tools · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to Sense

A JSON aware developer console to ElasticSearch.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Sense launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   dejavu▲90

   A modern, open-source data browser for Elasticsearch.

   2016 · opensource.appbase.io · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Searchkit▲156

   UI components for Elasticsearch

   2016 · searchkit.co · its alternatives →

3. 3
   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. 4
   Reactive Search 2.0▲276

   Elasticsearch UI components for React 📝

   2018 · opensource.appbase.io · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Appbase.io▲92

   Build relevant search with NoCode, JS components or REST API

   2020 · reactivesearch.io · its alternatives →

6. 6
   The Changelog - #189: JSON API with Yehuda Katz▲66

   Yehuda's start as a programmer and the spec for building API

   2016 · changelog.com · its alternatives →

7. 7SR
   Searchkit – React components for elasticsearch▲74

   Searchkit - UI Widgets for Elasticsearch. React, Vue & Javascript supported

   2016 · searchkit.co · its alternatives →

8. 8GF
   GUI for writing Elasticsearch queries▲97

   2016 · appbaseio.github.io · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Swift ElasticSearch Client▲80

   Build search experiences for iOS and Mac apps

   2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

10. 10AE
    An ElasticSearch Powered React Dashboard Template▲9

    2020 · medium.appbase.io · its alternatives →

11. 11DA
    Dejavu – a modern, open-source data browser for Elasticsearch▲33

    2016 · appbaseio.github.io · its alternatives →

12. 12
    ReactiveSearch for Vue▲74

    Components for building search UIs

    2018 · opensource.appbase.io · its alternatives →

13. 13
    Mirage▲8

    An interactive query explorer for Elasticsearch

    2016 · opensource.appbase.io · its alternatives →

14. 14
    Elasticsearch▲5

    Open Source Distributed RESTful Search Engine

    2016 · elastic.co · its alternatives →

15. 15
    Universal Recommender▲75

    Open source recommendation engine on Spark + Elasticsearch

    2015 · templates.prediction.io · its alternatives →

16. 16XT
    X to Elasticsearch Sync▲36

    2017 · medium.appbase.io · its alternatives →

17. 17SE
    Supergiant Elasticsearch – Auto-Scalable and Automated ES DevOps▲22

    2016 · qbox.io · its alternatives →

18. 18DS
    Desktop Search Powered by Elasticsearch▲6

    2022 · alexmarquardt.com · its alternatives →

19. 19
    Insight▲11

    IDE-like code search and navigation, on the cloud

    2017 · elastic.co · its alternatives →

20. 20
    How to gain observability across Kafka topics and Elasticsearch▲18

    How to connect Lenses to your Kafka and Elasticsearch environment for unified data observability

    2020 · lenses.io · its alternatives →

21. 21
    Sonar▲14

    A linting tool for the web

    2017 · its alternatives →

22. 22
    Mirage▲6

    🔎 GUI for composing Elasticsearch queries

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

23. 23
    Forestry.io▲14

    A lightweight CMS for Jekyll and Hugo sites

    2016 · tina.io · its alternatives →

24. 24
    Semantics3's new visual JSON playground▲14

    Data needn’t be dry JSON. Visualize product data in RealTime

    2017 · its alternatives →

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