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I’ve accumulated enough self hosted stuff that I feel like I want a dashboard now so I don’t have to remember which IP & port I need for which service (not all my services are exposed to the WWW).

I looked at some dashboard solutions already but there is a huge amount of them. I also use Home Assistant as the dashboard for my home.

So I’m looking to bounce some ideas off this community. Should I add one more service to my servers in the form of a dashboard, or should I maybe create a dashboard in Home Assistant?

If going with standalone dashboard service, which one? If going with Home Assistant, is there some good add-ons or something I can use to make managing my services easier?

Let me know and thank you!

Maybe I’m missing something but I mostly just want some quick links to my services. I thought Grafana was mostly for graph/data driven dashboards?

I just wrote my own.

It’s a single html file with links to all my services.

I don’t know about Home Assistant, but I am using Glance. I love the aesthetic and that you can configure it with descriptive yaml files.

But I think this is also a question you need to ask yourself: Do you want to “click together” a dashboard aka one with a nice GUI where you can configute everything (e.g. Homarr). Or rather one with config files like Glance and a bit simpler in its feature set.

I’ve stuck with https://gethomepage.dev/ the longest. Taking the time to tweak it can be a huge help (using labels for autodiscovery). It’s yaml configs are fairly easy once you get the hang of them if that’s something that is new to you. Lots of help out there too.

I also wrote mine, a bit of JavaScript that load a json file and populate the page.

Looks nice. Well done!

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Why a dashboard for that, and not traefik or caddy or something as a reverse proxy? I have everything addressable by name.

Well.. its for data driven anything..so in your case id prolly have a dash with all my services maybe I a list with ip/port and a red/green status… links to the admin piece of that service, etc… cert exp dates

wtf that is not even REMOTELY what he wants lmaoo.

Heimdall or Dashy are the first things that come to mind. However, what I would do in your case is using local URLs that you can resolve via a local DNS like pihole. That way, you don’t have to remember IPs and ports, but just services. If you need different ports, you might need a proxy in between, which is also set up fairly quickly with nginx.

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

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Well there’s a few services that I really have no need for outside of my home so if I don’t need it, why expose it?

Looks good, and highlights how little we generally need to be functional.

Why not give every server a reasonably memorable domain name?

If going with a standalone dashboard service, which one?

I use Homarr and find it suites my needs. However there are quite a few others out there. Homepage seems to be a popular one with loads of integrations available.

Dashy is what I use now, it’s simple, easy to use in one yaml file. I second all the others here though.

You can use reverse proxies for local only, usually by restricting the address to local IP ranges. You can even choose a non-existent fun tld!

I didn’t say anything about exposing it.

If anything, I recommend not exposing anything but a VPN service.

I just bookmark them in my browser on the toolbar.

https://lemmy.zip/pictrs/image/843674cd-48d9-482d-af96-fe806eb5bc7b.avif

My toolbar is already full :/

I second homepage. It’s static so it loads blazingly fast. I tried some others, but as a new tab page, they took too long to load. Homepage, however, loads it loads in fractions of a second. Homepage++

ThatOnePodcastTrackerIForgetTheNameOf.example.com.

I use Grafana (with telegraf, Angie plugin etc.). Feel free to use any of my public available dashboards of mine: https://grafana.com/orgs/webmaster1989

Back in the day I used Nagios to get an overview of large systems, and it made it very obvious if something wasn’t working and where. But that was 20 years ago, I’m sure there are more modern approaches.

Come to think of it, at work we have grafana running, but I’m not sure exactly what scope it’s operating under.

I just started using Homepage a few weeks ago, I like it.

That really looks good bro. Very modern looking card style. I’m keen to know how you have coded it to reject IP, other than VPN traffic.

Homepage is the best one I’ve found so far. Home assistants UI is just awful imo.

They didn’t say it was accessible to the internet.

Yes I did.

That’s handled by nginx, which strips out the menu items when serving to external IP.

Thank you everyone for the answers. After more reflection, unfortunately I’m going with Home Assistant simply because I already have the page open on every device. It’s not pretty but it’s already basically my “home page” so might as well as add to it instead of introducing a completely different service/page.

Neat. I was considering this route as well.

There is also remmina (linux) or mobaxterm (win).

I gotta spruce mine up, this is excellent.