Varnish Indicator

A web extension that shows if the current page was served by the Varnish cache.
What is Varnish Indicator?
Varnish Indicator is a Chrome extension that displays an icon indicating if the current page was served from the Varnish cache. It detects Varnish using x-varnish and x-varnish-cache headers and provides status colors to indicate cache usage.

Extension stats

This extension was removed from Chrome Web Store on 2024-05-09
Users: 94
Rating: 3.67 (3)
Version: 1.1 (Last updated: 2020-11-04)
Creation date: 2020-07-04
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood: High risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • webRequest
  • webNavigation
  • http://*/*
  • https://*/*
Size: 17.41K
URLs: Website

Other platforms

Not available on Firefox
Varnish Indicator (v1.0)
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Extension summary

An icon will advise if Varnish is being used, and if so, if the page was served from cache or not.

You should install this if you're a developer and want to quickly determine if a page was served from Varnish cache.

The icon has four status colors:

  • Gray: the default, displayed when Varnish isn't detected.
  • Blue: displays when Varnish is detected.
  • Green: displays when the page was served from cache.
  • Red: displays the when the page wasn't served from cache.

It looks for x-varnish and x-varnish-cache headers to detect Varnish. It can inspect both the x-varnish-cache (looking for hit and miss) and x-varnish (looking for two ids) headers to determine if a hit or miss took place.

The extension is open source and you can find more details at https://github.com/smebberson/varnish-indicator-extension.

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User reviews

Doesn't work
by Nicolas DR, 2023-12-14

Great, little tool to see if Varnish is doing its thang!
by Alice Coleman, 2020-07-06
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Varnish Indicator requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

Varnish Indicator may not be trust-worthy. Avoid installing if possible unless you really trust this publisher.

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