# Splainer: The Elasticsearch Relevance Sandbox that Tells you Why

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/splainer-the-elasticsearch-relevance-sandbox-that-tells-you-why/49089>\
**Category:** Elastic Community and Ecosystem\
**Created:** [May 3, 2016, 5:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/splainer-the-elasticsearch-relevance-sandbox-that-tells-you-why/49089 "2016-05-03T17:13:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![softwaredoug](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/softwaredoug/32/22681_2.png) [@softwaredoug](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/softwaredoug)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2016, 5:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/splainer-the-elasticsearch-relevance-sandbox-that-tells-you-why/49089/1 "2016-05-03T17:13:26Z")

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Some of you from the Solr community may know about [Splainer](http://splainer.io). Well [Splainer now supports Elasticsearch](http://opensourceconnections.com/blog/2016/05/03/splainer-elasticsearch-relevance-sandbox/)!

What's Splainer? Splainer is a relevance sandbox. It doesn't just parse the relevance explain, it tells you _why_. It decomposes the relevance explain into a summary of matches that matter most. Then from that top-level you drill down with more human-readable explanations of the explain output. If you're interested, read more in the [blog post](http://opensourceconnections.com/blog/2016/05/03/splainer-elasticsearch-relevance-sandbox/).

Here's the TLDR gif version of Splainer:

 ![Gif](http://opensourceconnections.com/blog/uploads/2016/splainer%20elasticsearch/splainer_walkthru.gif)

Splainer comes out of the search relevance practice of [OpenSource Connections](http://opensourceconnections.com). Splainer is the baby brother of our relevance tuning product [Quepid](http://quepid.com). Quepid is a test-driven relevance toolbench. It gives you all the functionality and insight of Splainer, but more holistically over all your candidate keyword searches. It keeps a history of all your relevance work and lets you snapshot and save results for later comparison.

Splainer is open source. Bugs and contributions welcome on [github](http://github.com/o19s/splainer)

Happy Searching!  
-Doug Turnbull

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**Author:** ![Babadofar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/babadofar/32/44803_2.png) [@Babadofar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Babadofar)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2016, 11:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/splainer-the-elasticsearch-relevance-sandbox-that-tells-you-why/49089/2 "2016-06-10T11:19:49Z")

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Nice tool! It helps a lot with getting oversight on what's happening with large queries.

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 1:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/splainer-the-elasticsearch-relevance-sandbox-that-tells-you-why/49089/3 "2017-07-06T13:44:08Z")

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