Elchi Documentation
Everything you need to install, configure, and operate the Elchi proxy management platform, from quick local trials to production-grade Kubernetes deployments.
Quick Start
Spin up the full Elchi stack on any Kubernetes cluster with three commands using the Helm chart's bundled MongoDB, VictoriaMetrics, and ClickHouse.
Core Concepts
How Elchi splits responsibilities across its three cooperating processes and the client agent, and how a configuration change flows through them.
Architecture
The conceptual map of the whole Elchi stack — the three backend processes, the datastores and observability tier, the edge node, and the wire-level map of every inter-component connection.
Network & External Access
A firewall checklist for every Elchi component — what the platform exposes (ingress), what it needs to reach (egress), what edge hosts running elchi-client / Envoy / elchi-shield need, and the side-channels opened only when a feature is configured.
The Dashboard
The first screen after login — a widget-based, per-project overview of resource counts, service errors, traffic, and security health, with links into every area of Elchi.
Global Search
Find every place a domain or IP address appears across your Envoy configuration — virtual hosts, routes, filters, endpoints, clusters, listeners, services, and K8s discovery — and jump straight to the resource.