Word of the Week: Dashboard

[davidn#]

Are you tired of the hassle of remembering and manually typing URLs for your web applications and services? Do you find it overwhelming to bookmark numerous URLs in your web browser? A home lab dashboard can be your ultimate solution, allowing you to conveniently centralize and manage all your applications and services in a single location. Not only does it provide a unified view, but it also enables you to monitor server and application performance effectively, and promptly receive alerts in case of any issues. Moreover, dashboards offer automation capabilities, simplifying infrastructure management and streamlining your workflow. Say goodbye to URL chaos and embrace the efficiency of a comprehensive dashboard for your home lab.

Most of the applications and services in your home lab also come with their own built-in dashboards: Proxmox, Portainer, Pi-Hole, True NAS, PfSense, JellyFin, Home Assistant, etc.

(a sample demo dashy dashboard)

Here are some popular open-source dashboards that you can use to manage your home lab infrastructure:

1. Dashy - a self-hostable personal dashboard built for you. Includes status-checking, widgets, themes, icon packs, a UI editor and tons more!
2. Heimdall - designed to simplify the management of your web applications and services. It allows you to add links to anything you like and keep all your applications, services and bookmarks in one central location.
3. HomelabOS - allows anyone to easily deploy, backup, restore, and maintain over 100 different applications and services. Everything from video players, to home automation, to chat services. These services can continue to function at full speed on your LAN even when your external internet is completely offline.
4. Homer - A simple dashboard configuration tool. Title, icons, links, colors, and services can be statically configured in the YAML config file.
5. Homarr - Customizable browser's home page to interact with your homeserver's Docker containers

[Alexander Stevenson]

Thanks, this is helpful info!

[npetrele]

Very cool. I installed Dashy in an Ubuntu container in Proxmox rather than their instructions to use Docker. It's not straightforward and doesn't work without fudging some settings, so maybe I'll write that up in Tales from the Crypt Chapter 5. 

[davidn# · Accepted solution]

Another way to do it is to install Docker/Portainer in one of your Proxmox container and use that to spin up your Dashy docker or any docker container.