Dejavu

What is Dejavu?

Dejavu is a lightweight, open-source web UI for browsing and querying Elasticsearch indices, import/export data, inspect mappings, and build queries visually, without Kibana's full dashboarding weight. Laradock builds it from the appbaseio/dejavu image.

Start Dejavu

dejavu/compose.yml lists elasticsearch as a dependency, so it starts automatically alongside Dejavu, there's nothing to browse without it:

Laradock CLI

./laradock start dejavu

Docker Compose

docker compose up -d dejavu

Stop Dejavu

Dejavu itself keeps no data of its own (it's just a browser-side UI, your actual data lives in Elasticsearch), so there's nothing to back up here:

Laradock CLI

./laradock stop dejavu

Docker Compose

docker compose stop dejavu

To delete the container entirely:

Laradock CLI

./laradock remove dejavu

Docker Compose

docker compose rm -sf dejavu

Configuration

The only Laradock-specific setting lives in dejavu/defaults.env and can be overridden by adding the same line to your own .env:

Variable	Default	What it does
DEJAVU_HTTP_PORT	1358	Host-side port Dejavu is published on (container port 1358).

The Dejavu image itself isn't version-pinned, dejavu/Dockerfile builds from appbaseio/dejavu (latest).

Connect

Open http://localhost:1358 in your browser. When prompted for a connection, point it at your Elasticsearch endpoint: use http://localhost:9200 if you're browsing from the same machine (Dejavu runs client-side in your browser and talks to Elasticsearch directly over HTTP, not through the Dejavu container). Laradock's default elasticsearch/compose.yml sets xpack.security.enabled=false, so there's no login to enter, just the URL.

Enable CORS on Elasticsearch

Dejavu's connection screen is the most common first-run blocker: browsers block cross-origin requests from localhost:1358 to localhost:9200 unless Elasticsearch explicitly allows it, and Laradock's default config doesn't. Add these lines to the environment: block in elasticsearch/compose.yml:

- http.cors.enabled=true
- http.cors.allow-origin=http://localhost:1358

Then rebuild and restart Elasticsearch to pick up the change:

Laradock CLI

./laradock restart elasticsearch

Docker Compose

docker compose restart elasticsearch

If you changed DEJAVU_HTTP_PORT, update http.cors.allow-origin to match.

Update to the latest Dejavu version

The image is built fresh from appbaseio/dejavu with no version pin, so Laradock always uses whatever tag Docker last pulled locally. To force a newer image and rebuild:

Laradock CLI

./laradock rebuild dejavu --pull

Docker Compose

docker compose build --pull dejavu

Then restart it: ./laradock restart dejavu.

Browse an Elasticsearch cluster from another Laradock project

Dejavu isn't tied to the elasticsearch container it starts with, its connection screen accepts any reachable URL. To browse a different project's cluster (or a remote one), publish that cluster's HTTP port and enter its host address instead of localhost:9200, for example http://host.docker.internal:9200 (Docker Desktop) if you're pointing at another Laradock project's Elasticsearch on the same machine. Make sure that project's ELASTICSEARCH_HOST_HTTP_PORT is unique if both are running at once, and that its Elasticsearch also has CORS enabled for Dejavu's origin (see Enable CORS on Elasticsearch above).

Common issues

• "Could not connect" when adding a connection. Elasticsearch needs CORS enabled to accept cross-origin requests from Dejavu's browser UI, see Enable CORS on Elasticsearch above.
• Blank page or connection refused. Confirm elasticsearch is actually up first: ./laradock info and ./laradock logs elasticsearch.
• Port already in use on your host. Change DEJAVU_HTTP_PORT in .env and restart: ./laradock restart dejavu.

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Need full dashboards and visualizations instead? See Kibana. Need the underlying engine? See Elasticsearch. New to Laradock? Start with Getting Started.