2021 Survey results

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Thank you all for answering the survey!
Before going over the results i want to use this opportunity to talk some numbers.

Stats

Elasticvue can be installed / used in many different ways, and i have usage numbers for at least some of these:

Method	Daily users 1y ago	Daily users 6m ago	Daily users now
Chrome extension	~2500	~10000	~16000
Firefox addon	~1000	~2000	~2400
Edge extensions	-	-	-
Docker addon	-	-	-
Web app	-	-	-
Self hosted / manual	-	-	-

As you can see, usage numbers for the chrome addon are now more then 6 times higher then one year ago. According to these numbers, i guess that elasticvue has about 20000-25000 daily users overall.

In total, 223 users did answer the survey. This might not seem like a lot, but your answers where extremely helpful!

Survey results

Survey was open from 28.05.2021 to 30.06.2021

Question 1: What is your preferred way of running elasticvue?
As expected most participants use a browser extension for elasticvue, with chrome leading by a big margin.

Question 2: For how long have you been using elasticvue?
Most users are using elasticvue for less then a year.

Question 3: Did you have issues during elasticvue setup and the connection to your cluster?
The bulk did not have any issues, but about 30% still had some - i will look into ways to improve the setup.

Question 4: Which of the following features do you use regularly?
Fortunately it seems that all features of elasticvue are being used.

Question 5: Where do you think elasticvue could be improved?
Again, most users agree on this: More then 60% of the participants want more features, with more then 40% thinking that the design could be improved. I agree!

Question 6: Do you also use another elasticsearch frontend?
As expected most participants also use kibana for various tasks.

Question 7 and 8: If so, what features do you use that are missing in elasticvue? | If you could add a feature to elasticvue, what would it be?
These questions lead to some great feature suggestions. I will include the most common:

Feature	Amount	Already implemented?	Planned	Comment
REST/Search query history / templates / examples	23	No	Yes	Planned for the next release (0.36.0)
CRUD Documents	14	No	Yes	Planned for the version after the above
Structured query builder (es-head/mirage)	7	No	No	I am not sure if this is the right way to go. I would prever a better (and context-sensitive) typeahead instead of a gui.
Index settings / mappings	3	No	Yes	Planned
Shard display/visualization + relocation	3	No	No	Unsure
Standalone / Desktop client	5	No	No	Right now elasticvue is distributed in 6 different ways and this already feels a bit too much. Also, a standalone client would have to be a heavy electron app and i am not really a fan of that, because there is exactly zero benefit of using this instead of a browser addon.
REST/Search JSON export	5	No	Yes	Coming in one of the next versions
Aggs, Diagrams, Analyzers	4	No	No	Really complex topic, so far i don't plan to implement analyzers/aggs/diagrams in elasticvue
Typeahead	4	Yes		Should be context-sensitive. Planned
Search interface: more filters	2	No	No	Does not really make sense. If you want more filters then you simply have to adjust the query
REST Split view	1	Yes		Already implemented months ago
Search with profiles	1	No	Maybe	Unsure about how exactly this would look like. I think you should probably use the REST interface for this
Ingest pipeline management	1	No	No
Search pagination link to first page	1	Yes		Implemented in 0.35.0
Realtime view	1	Kinda	Yes	Most views in elasticvue offer a way to auto-reload in a certain interval. This is missing on the search page and will be added.
ILM	1	No	No
Search column selection: "unselect all" button	1	Yes		Implemented in 0.35.0
Purge data via elasticvue	1	Yes		Already implemented months ago. You can delete indices and purge the whole cluster (in utilities). Deleting single docs is still missing.
KQL support	1	No	Maybe	I like the idea, but it's a huge amount of work.

elasticvue_survey_2021.csv

Overall many users are simply missing all the features that kibana has. Elasticvue does not want to be a clone of kibana. Personally i see elasticvue as a tool for daily tasks like searching, inspecting and, to some extend, common management tasks. Complex (and in my experience, rarely used/changed) things like ILM, Ingest Pipeline management, Shard reloaction etc might be out of the scope. Feel free to discuss this here.

I have also noticed that many features where requested that elasticvue already has, so i might have to advertise them better.

Apart from that, there were many great suggestions in your answers. I have already fixed some of these in 0.35.0:

• Reworks saved cluster selection to table (with pagination and filter) to improve support for users with 10+ clusters
  

• Can open documents in new tab by using ctrl+click. Standalone click will still open document in modal. Please
  report if this does not work on macOS.

• Adds icons for first/last page in all tables

• Adds "uncheck" button to deselect all columns in search table

• Adds additional hint to set http.cors.allow-headers when adding a cluster that uses authorization

Future

For now i will work on implementing the suggested features and improvements for elasticvue. Hopefully we can release 1.0 this year once vuetify has full support for vuejs 3.0. This will also include an updated design.

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🎉 Thanks for using elasticvue 🎉