Dashboard for my servers

Dashboard for my servers
from idunnololz@lemmy.world to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 13 Mar 19:31
https://lemmy.world/post/44219246

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 a 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 what you guys think and thank you!

#selfhosted

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originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com on 13 Mar 19:33 next collapse

grafana

idunnololz@lemmy.world on 13 Mar 19:35 next collapse

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?

originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com on 13 Mar 19:49 collapse

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

realitaetsverlust@piefed.zip on 13 Mar 21:06 collapse

wtf that is not even REMOTELY what he wants lmaoo. Grafana is a complete overkill, that’s like telling someone who wants to host a hello-world docker container to use kubernetes.

Eldaroth@lemmy.world on 13 Mar 19:46 next collapse

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.

MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz on 13 Mar 19:46 next collapse

I just wrote my own.

It’s a single html file with links to all my services, served at the root of my nginx server.

This is like v12, I’ve edited it over the years as what I host has changed. Adding the embedded searxng bar, as well as links to uptime kuma and openspeedtest.

Stuff only I need to access is behind the "Admin Menu" button:

<img alt="" src="https://sopuli.xyz/pictrs/image/0fe7bab5-748f-43ca-a9eb-7fa432ebff4d.webp"> And it only works via lan/vpn. <img alt="" src="https://sopuli.xyz/pictrs/image/dadb0708-34ac-4a38-bc2f-34f3e4b3f3f5.webp">

I’d be happy to let you copy it, provided you know how to edit it for your needs.

JoeKrogan@lemmy.world on 13 Mar 20:19 next collapse

Looks nice. Well done!

non_burglar@lemmy.world on 13 Mar 21:36 next collapse

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

irmadlad@lemmy.world on 14 Mar 04:08 next collapse

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.

FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au on 14 Mar 04:18 next collapse

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

MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz on 14 Mar 05:06 collapse

Yes I did.

MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz on 14 Mar 05:07 collapse

That’s handled by nginx, which strips out the menu items when serving to external IP. Basically serving an html file that doesn’t contain them to begin with.

idunnololz@lemmy.world on 14 Mar 07:21 next collapse

Neat. I was considering this route as well.

panda_abyss@lemmy.ca on 14 Mar 13:07 collapse

I gotta spruce mine up, this is excellent.

grimer@lemmy.world on 13 Mar 19:51 next collapse

I’ve stuck with 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.

osanna@lemmy.vg on 14 Mar 00:22 collapse

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++

Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu on 13 Mar 20:06 next collapse

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

frongt@lemmy.zip on 13 Mar 20:39 next collapse

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

idunnololz@lemmy.world on 13 Mar 21:35 collapse

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?

tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden on 13 Mar 22:15 next collapse

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!

frongt@lemmy.zip on 13 Mar 23:10 collapse

I didn’t say anything about exposing it.

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

realitaetsverlust@piefed.zip on 13 Mar 21:07 next collapse

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.

Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz on 13 Mar 21:10 next collapse

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

Fewer Letters	More Letters
DNS	Domain Name Service/System
HTTP	Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
IP	Internet Protocol
VPN	Virtual Private Network
nginx	Popular HTTP server

4 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 13 acronyms.

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exu@feditown.com on 13 Mar 21:38 next collapse

Why not give every server a reasonably memorable domain name?

surewhynotlem@lemmy.world on 14 Mar 01:17 collapse

ThatOnePodcastTrackerIForgetTheNameOf.example.com.

irmadlad@lemmy.world on 13 Mar 21:48 next collapse

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.

kokomo@lemmy.kokomo.cloud on 13 Mar 21:55 next collapse

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

MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip on 13 Mar 23:42 next collapse

I just bookmark them in my browser on the toolbar.

idunnololz@lemmy.world on 13 Mar 23:44 collapse

My toolbar is already full :/

melroy@kbin.melroy.org on 14 Mar 00:19 next collapse

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

EDIT: Specially, I would like to highlight: https://grafana.com/grafana/dashboards/24461-angie-metrics/ and https://grafana.com/grafana/dashboards/21989-server-stats/

And finally a dedicated status dashboard: https://grafana.com/grafana/dashboards/15226-melroy-s-status-dashboard/

neidu3@sh.itjust.works on 14 Mar 01:45 next collapse

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.

iamthetot@piefed.ca on 14 Mar 04:02 next collapse

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

FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au on 14 Mar 04:17 next collapse

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

idunnololz@lemmy.world on 14 Mar 07:17 next collapse

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.

redlemace@lemmy.world on 14 Mar 08:46 collapse

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