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A JSON aware developer's interface to Elasticsearch. Comes with handy machinery such as syntax highlighting, autocomplete, formatting and code folding.

Is elastic/sense beginner-friendly?

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JavaScript
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Last GitHub push
Jan 30, 2025
Latest indexed
Sep 15, 2026
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  • Update installation notes
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

    elastic/sense#164 · 1 comment ·

  • There an encoding bug at browser and sense, it make confusion with asciifolding filter.
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    elastic/sense#163 ·

  • resizing sometimes breaks
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    elastic/sense#157 · 2 comments ·

  • autocomplete for _mget does not work
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

    elastic/sense#156 · 1 comment ·

  • Incorrect collapse/expand inline help docs
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    bug

    Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 55/100

    elastic/sense#148 ·

  • how to use elastic search with a database? is there any plugin? if so, where can i download it?
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

    elastic/sense#146 ·

  • installing sense- ERROR
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 15/100

    elastic/sense#143 · 1 comment ·

  • typo'd HTTP method gives misleading error message
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    elastic/sense#140 · 1 comment ·

  • Sense fails to authenticate users
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

    elastic/sense#137 ·

  • Trim trailing whitespace from URLs
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 55/100

    elastic/sense#136 ·

  • Copy as cURL should fix case of verbs to uppercase
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

    elastic/sense#134 · 1 comment ·

  • Inconsistency with case handling of HTTP verbs
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    bug

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    elastic/sense#133 · 2 comments ·

  • "_suggest" not suggested
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

    elastic/sense#128 · 2 reactions ·

  • Display HTTP status code
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    enhancement

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

    elastic/sense#126 · 1 reaction ·

  • GET _stats fails with maximum call stack error
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    elastic/sense#125 · 2 comments ·

  • VIM keybindings
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    elastic/sense#124 ·

  • YAML requests support?
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    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    elastic/sense#117 · 2 comments · 5 reactions ·

  • Sense 2.0.0-beta1 autocomplete missing "month"
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

    elastic/sense#108 ·

  • Deepen contextual suggestions
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    elastic/sense#107 ·

  • sense with shield secured cluster
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    elastic/sense#106 · 3 comments ·

  • partial display of left request panel
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    elastic/sense#104 · 1 comment ·

  • comments not highlighted, shows error instead. Version: 0.9.0.
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

    elastic/sense#103 · 1 reaction ·

  • Better install documentation for packing?
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 25/100

    elastic/sense#99 · 3 comments ·

  • Provide additional (target) options to save Sense history
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    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 28/100

    elastic/sense#98 · 3 comments · 2 reactions ·

  • Plugin does not respect server.basePath
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    elastic/sense#97 ·

  • Uncaught TypeError: storage.remove is not a function
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    bug

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    elastic/sense#92 · 7 comments ·

  • Oops when typing and then doing shift + enter
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    elastic/sense#90 · 5 comments ·

  • Unicode characters seem to encode incorrectly?
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    elastic/sense#88 ·

  • GET request ends up indexing a document
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    bug

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    elastic/sense#86 · 5 comments ·

  • lowercase get method in mget causes failed to derive from xcontent
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    bug

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    elastic/sense#85 · 1 comment ·

  • Bottom of code window hidden
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    bug

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

    elastic/sense#84 · 1 comment · 1 reaction ·

  • Generating a diff between REST API Spec and Sense shows they have differences, here they are.
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    elastic/sense#83 · 1 comment ·

  • Dependency on kibana is undesirable
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    elastic/sense#82 · 2 comments · 1 reaction ·

  • Beta1 labeling
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    discuss

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    elastic/sense#79 · 1 comment ·

  • Sense breaks on HEAD verb
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    bug pr pending v2.0.0

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    elastic/sense#76 · 3 comments ·

  • Change default proxyFilter
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    enhancement v2.0.0

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

    elastic/sense#75 · 5 comments ·

  • Support Swagger
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 28/100

    elastic/sense#73 · 3 comments ·

  • Left over KB todos from ES 2.0
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    kb v2.0.0

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

    elastic/sense#68 ·

  • Re-intrduce dark theme
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    v2.0.0

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

    elastic/sense#57 · 4 comments ·

  • Hover on copy in curl results in blue highlight
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    pr pending v2.0.0

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

    elastic/sense#55 ·

  • Option to proxy a specific cluster, and that cluster only
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    elastic/sense#50 · 2 comments ·

  • Re-introduce in-flight request indication
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    v2.0.0

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    elastic/sense#49 ·

  • Add License autocomplete to KB
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    kb v2.0.0

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    elastic/sense#45 ·

  • Switch out zeroclipbard for clipboard.js
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    elastic/sense#43 · 5 comments ·

  • Display warning if > 10K words per line are used
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    enhancement

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    elastic/sense#40 ·

  • Update to latest design
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    UI-Design v2.0.0

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

    elastic/sense#29 · 1 comment ·

  • Do not use global autocomplete rules if the are ones locally defined
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    elastic/sense#28 ·

  • auto completion for array of values in url parameters
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    elastic/sense#17 ·

  • _mget with "get" rather than "GET" sends as querystring
    Open
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

    elastic/sense#6 ·

  • Autosuggest for Shield API
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    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    elastic/sense#5 ·

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