Chadmin

Chadmin is an administration panel for ClickHouse — a real-time dashboard for monitoring running queries, managing users and access, and operating ClickHouse Cloud services. It auto-detects whether you're running a single node, a self-hosted cluster, or ClickHouse Cloud, and adapts the UI and SQL accordingly.

Installation and Setup

Run via Docker Hub (fastest)

The published image at bun4uk/chadmin bundles nginx + php-fpm + the built frontend in a single container. No clone, no build:

docker run -d \
  --name chadmin \
  -p 8080:80 \
  -e CLICKHOUSE_HOST=clickhouse.example.com \
  -e CLICKHOUSE_PORT=8123 \
  -e CLICKHOUSE_USERNAME=default \
  -e CLICKHOUSE_PASSWORD=secret \
  bun4uk/chadmin:latest

Then open http://localhost:8080.

For ClickHouse Cloud, pass the API credentials instead — Cloud mode turns on automatically:

docker run -d \
  --name chadmin \
  -p 8080:80 \
  -e CLICKHOUSE_CLOUD_KEY_ID=xxxxxxxx \
  -e CLICKHOUSE_CLOUD_KEY_SECRET=yyyyyyyy \
  bun4uk/chadmin:latest

See .env.example for the full list of supported environment variables. Available tags: latest, M.m.p (semver), M.m, M. Multi-arch images are published for linux/amd64 and linux/arm64.

If you prefer keeping the configuration in a file, mount an env file instead of passing individual -e flags:

docker run -d --name chadmin -p 8080:80 --env-file .env bun4uk/chadmin:latest

To upgrade to a newer version, pull the new tag and recreate the container:

docker pull bun4uk/chadmin:latest
docker rm -f chadmin
docker run -d --name chadmin -p 8080:80 --env-file .env bun4uk/chadmin:latest

Run via Docker Compose (development)

Requirements

• Docker and Docker Compose
• Git

Quick Start

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/bun4uk/chadmin.git
   cd chadmin
   

2. Create and configure the .env file:

   cp .env.example .env
   

   Edit .env and add your ClickHouse credentials. For ClickHouse Cloud, set CLICKHOUSE_CLOUD_KEY_ID and CLICKHOUSE_CLOUD_KEY_SECRET — Cloud mode turns on automatically when these are present. See .env.example for the full list.

3. Launch the project:

   docker-compose up -d
   

4. Open http://localhost in your browser

Development

Everything builds and runs through docker-compose. The frontend container runs npm install && npm run watch (Vite build in watch mode) and rebuilds assets into public/build/ on every file change — no host-side npm or composer needed.

There is no test suite and no separate lint step. TypeScript type-checking runs as part of the Vite build inside the frontend container.

After backend (PHP) changes

docker-compose restart app
docker-compose exec app bin/console cache:clear

Running an arbitrary command in a container

docker-compose exec app bin/console <command>     # Symfony console
docker-compose run --rm composer install          # composer
docker-compose exec frontend npm run build        # one-shot production build

Useful Commands

Complete shutdown of the project

docker-compose down

Viewing logs

docker-compose logs -f app
docker-compose logs -f nginx
docker-compose logs -f frontend

Full restart with cache clearing

docker-compose down
rm -rf var/cache/* var/log/* public/build/*
docker-compose up -d
docker-compose exec app bin/console cache:clear

Technologies

• PHP 8.5 / Symfony 8.0
• React 19 + TypeScript + Vite 8
• Tailwind CSS 4 + @clickhouse/click-ui
• highlight.js + sql-formatter for SQL display
• smi2/phpclickhouse for ClickHouse SQL queries
• Docker and Docker Compose

Project Features

• Auto-detects topology: single node, self-hosted cluster, or ClickHouse Cloud — no manual switch needed
• Real-time per-target view of running queries with memory and duration
• SQL syntax highlighting and formatting in query popups
• Background coloring based on query execution time
• Kill long-running queries
• Users & Access page (/users) for inspecting and dropping ClickHouse users
• Cloud-only: wake idle/stopped services from the UI; deep-link to a specific warehouse/service via URL params (?warehouse=…&service=…)
• Light/dark theme toggle, persisted per browser
• Polling pauses when the tab is hidden, so idle Cloud services aren't kept warm by a background tab