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Dashy

The ultimate homepage and application dashboard for your homelab and server suite.

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LicenseMIT

GitHub stars26.3k

Last commit1 weeks ago

Tags6 topics

DashboardVueWidgetsSelf HostedHomelabStartpage

Overview

Why consider Dashy?

Dashy is an open-source, feature-packed dashboard app for homelabs and personal servers. It features real-time status checks, 50+ widget integrations, and customizable themes.

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Practical setup notes, real use cases, and copy-ready examples in one focused guide.

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What is Dashy?

Dashy is a feature-rich, highly customizable open-source homepage and dashboard application built with Vue.js. Designed specifically for homelab enthusiasts, sysadmins, and organizations, Dashy acts as a centralized launchpad for all your self-hosted web applications, cloud services, and network devices.

Dashy provides an extensive feature set: real-time service status pinging, 50+ dynamic interactive widgets (system stats, weather, stocks, torrent progress, Nextcloud, GitHub stats), multi-user authentication with Keycloak/OIDC support, visual UI configuration editor, and over 60 built-in color themes.

Who Is It For?

Homelabbers & Self-Hosters: Creating a single unified startpage for accessing Plex, Portainer, Pi-hole, Home Assistant, and NAS storage.
Enterprise IT & Operations Teams: Organizing internal bookmarks, staging servers, and monitoring links with role-based access control.
Power Users: Customizing a personalized, responsive browser startpage with custom search engines and live widgets.

Key Features

50+ built-in dynamic widgets: System monitoring, network status, crypto/stock prices, weather, Docker containers, and RSS feeds.
Real-time service health pinging: Live indicators showing whether linked applications and endpoints are online or offline.
Multi-user authentication & RBAC: Secure dashboards using passwords, Keycloak, Authentik, or HTTP headers.
Visual and Code Configuration: Modify dashboard layouts directly in the graphical web editor or edit the conf.yml file.
60+ pre-built themes with custom CSS support and icon font integrations.

Deploying Dashy with Docker Compose

yaml

1version: '3.8'

3services:

4 dashy:

5 image: lissy93/dashy:latest

6 container_name: dashy

7 restart: unless-stopped

8 ports:

9 - "4000:8080"

10 volumes:

11 - ./conf.yml:/app/user-data/conf.yml

12 environment:

13 - NODE_ENV=production

Start the instance:

bash

1docker compose up -d

Open http://localhost:4000 in your browser to access your personal dashboard.

Practical Use Cases

1. Centralized Homelab Launchpad

A user organizes 25 self-hosted services into logical categories, using live health status indicators to spot offline servers immediately.

A developer mounts a wall display running Dashy with live weather forecasts, Docker host CPU/RAM metrics, and GitHub pull request feeds.

3. Secure Corporate Intranet Bookmarks Portal

An IT department deploys Dashy behind corporate Single Sign-On, providing employees with quick access to internal payroll, wiki, and ticket systems.

Troubleshooting and Limitations

Service Status CORS Errors: If status pings fail in browser mode, enable the Dashy backend status checker proxy in conf.yml under appConfig.statusCheck: true.
Config File Permissions: Ensure the conf.yml file has read/write permissions on the host to allow edits made in the visual web editor to save properly.

Official Resources

Official Website: https://dashy.to
GitHub Repository: https://github.com/Lissy93/dashy
Documentation: https://dashy.to/docs/

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