I Built a Self-Hosted Web UI for 11 Databases — Here's Why You Might Want One Too

👋 The Problem If you work with microservices in Kubernetes, you know the pain: Your app uses PostgreSQL for transactions, Redis for cache, Kafka for events, and MongoDB for documents. To debug a production issue, you open: psql , redis-cli , kcat , mongosh , maybe curl for Elasticsearch... You copy-paste IDs between terminals. You forget which environment you're in. You accidentally run DROP on staging. I've been there. So I built Panopticum — a lightweight, self-hosted web UI that lets you browse, query, and edit data across 11+ database types from a single interface. No Electron, no heavy desktop app, no CDN dependencies. 🛠️ Why Another Database Tool? Existing tools are great, but they didn't fit my workflow: Tool Gap I Felt DBeaver / DataGrip Desktop-only, heavy, per-connection setup Adminer / phpMyAdmin Web-based, but single-DB-type, PHP stack pgAdmin / Mongo Express Excellent for one DB, but I needed many Custom internal tools Took weeks to build; not reusable I wanted something t