# lukas-vlcek/bigdesk

Live charts and statistics for Elasticsearch cluster.

Repository: https://github.com/lukas-vlcek/bigdesk
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/bigdesk
Language: JavaScript
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Archived: true
Last push: 2022-07-01T09:29:16+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5569, "days_push": 1524, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1316, forks 212 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:20.780573+00:00)

## What it is
Bigdesk is a browser-based dashboard that shows live charts and statistics for an Elasticsearch cluster, including node, JVM, and index metrics. It is an archived project whose last release supports only Elasticsearch 1.3.x.

## Use cases
- monitor elasticsearch cluster health in real time
- visualize jvm garbage collection stats for es nodes
- watch live charts of index and node statistics
- inspect cluster topology and node details in a browser
- troubleshoot performance of an old elasticsearch 1.x cluster

## When to choose
- you run a legacy Elasticsearch 0.x/1.x cluster and need a quick web dashboard
- you want lightweight, dependency-free cluster monitoring without installing agents

## When to avoid
- you run modern Elasticsearch (2.x or later) since it is unsupported
- you need actively maintained monitoring with alerts and long-term metrics storage

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: abandoned
- function: monitoring, data-visualization, charts
- domain: databases, monitoring, data-visualization, developer-tools
- platform: browser, cross-platform
- tags: elasticsearch, cluster-monitoring, dashboard, archived, javascript, search, web-server

## Member repositories
- lukas-vlcek/bigdesk (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:20.780573+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:48:30.059676+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/lukas-vlcek/bigdesk (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:20.780573+00:00, sha a2b3f9a04490)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.