Guide

Welcome to the Kassie guide! This section will help you get started with Kassie and master its features.

What is Kassie?

Kassie is a modern database explorer for Apache Cassandra and ScyllaDB. It provides both a Terminal User Interface (TUI) and a Web UI for browsing your data, making it easy to explore keyspaces, tables, and records without writing repetitive CQL queries.

Key Features

Dual Interface

• TUI: Fast, keyboard-driven terminal interface perfect for SSH sessions
• Web UI: Modern browser interface with full feature parity

Single Binary

No dependencies or complex setup. Download one binary and start exploring your database immediately.

Read-Safety First

Optimized for browsing and observing data. Perfect for development, debugging, and production investigations.

Secure

JWT-based authentication ensures your database credentials are never exposed to clients.

Quick Navigation

• Getting Started - 5-minute tutorial to get up and running
• Installation - Multiple installation methods
• Configuration - Configure profiles and settings
• TUI Usage - Learn the terminal interface
• Web Usage - Explore the web interface
• Natural Language Queries - Ask in plain English via local agent CLIs
• Troubleshooting - Solutions to common issues

Who is Kassie for?

Developers

Quickly inspect data during development, verify schema changes, and test queries.

DevOps Engineers

SSH into servers and investigate issues with a fast, efficient TUI. No GUI required.

Database Administrators

Explore cluster data, verify replication, and monitor table schemas across keyspaces.

Teams

Run Kassie server and share web access with your team for collaborative database exploration.

Next Steps

Ready to get started? Head over to the Getting Started guide for a quick tutorial, or jump straight to Installation if you want to dive in.