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!

  • grimer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    2 months ago

    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.

  • Eldaroth@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 months ago

    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.

  • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    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.

  • neidu3@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    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.

  • idunnololz@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    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.