# Alternatives to the Dev Tools Console

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alternatives-to-the-dev-tools-console/279911>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 28, 2021, 8:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alternatives-to-the-dev-tools-console/279911 "2021-07-28T20:56:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![rgelb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/da6949/32.png) [@rgelb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rgelb)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2021, 8:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alternatives-to-the-dev-tools-console/279911/1 "2021-07-28T20:56:07Z")

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The Dev Tools Console is nice but very basic. I am trying to find an alternative that retains all the niceties of the Console (e.g auto-highlight, intellisense, etc...), but also provide other features such as ability to load/save query files and data export. Perhaps even index management and/or inspection.

I've looked at the myriad of Visual Studio Code plugins, but none of them allow you for any type of authentication - they all assume that ElasticSearch instance is unsecured.

Am I missing something? I can't be the first person that is looking for something like this.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2021, 8:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alternatives-to-the-dev-tools-console/279911/2 "2021-08-25T20:56:54Z")

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