The Official Front-End to the Zed Lake
Zui is a desktop app for exploring and working with data.
Highlights:
- Drag-and-drop data ingest
- Automatic detection of common data formats
- Schema inference during ingest
- Beautiful result views for nested or tabular data
- Named queries with version history
- Query session history to keep track of your work
- Pinnable query fragments to keep your search box uncluttered
- Right-click menus for pivoting and filtering
Download Zui for your operating system.
Refer to the installation guide and release notes for more information.
Zed offers an innovative approach to working with data known as "Super-Structured Data".
Behind Zui is a local Zed Lake instance where you can load your data into pools and use the powerful Zed language to search, analyze, and transform it. Use it to:
- Explore deeply nested JSON objects
- View Parquet and Arrow IPC stream files
- Clean up CSV files by adding type information
- Search heterogeneous NDJSON logs
- Transform data from a legacy database's CDC logs
- Investigate Zeek security logs
Zed provides a system to make working with data easier and more efficient. The storage layer, type system, query language, and zq command-line utility are just a few of the tools Zed offers to the data community.
For many years, the app was known as Brim, named after the company Brim Data that created it. In 2023, it was renamed to Zui (a play on "Zed User Interface") to better reflect its connection to the Zed technology that powers it.
Zui retains the security-specific features that