Lite CosmosDB Explorer

A cross-platform client explorer for Microsoft Azure CosmosDB (Windows, MacOS, Linux).

Features

• Connect to Azure CosmosDB and display databases and containers
• Filter CosmosDB documents
• Create/Read/Update/Delete a document
• Colored JSON Editor for documents
• Execute a query and view results and RUs
• Save the last executed queries (they are saved automatically and available in a dropdown)

How to Download

Win-x64, macOS-x64, macOS-arm64 and linux-x64 pre-built binaries can be found on Releases page.

How to run

Windows

• Right-click -> Open

You can allow windows defender to start this application:

• click on More Info -> Run anyway

macOS

• Make CosmosExplorer.Avalonia file executable by:

  chmod +x LiteCosmosExplorer

• Right-click -> Open

You can allow macOS to start this application by enabling Developer tools for Terminal:

System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> Privacy, select "Developer Tools" on the left, check terminal on the right.

Linux (CentOS, Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu and derivatives)

• Right-click -> Run

How to Start

Add your connection string or endpoint in Connections:

• Connection string name: The display name of your connection
• Connection string: Copy PRIMARY KEY or SECONDARY CONNECTION STRING from the Keys menu on the Azure Portal.

As an alternative you can add a CosmosDB endpoint and rely on Default Azure Credential (Azure login, Visual Studio login etc.) In the latter case the appropriate roles needs to be configured for the CosmosDB account.

More details: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/nosql/security/how-to-grant-data-plane-role-based-access?tabs=built-in-definition%2Ccsharp&pivots=azure-interface-cli