A simple, low-overhead web dashboard for GNU / Linux. (~1MB)

DEMO | Installation Instructions | Digital Ocean Tutorial

• A beautiful, simple web-based dashboard for monitoring a linux server
• Only ~1MB on disk! (.git removed)
• Live graphs, refresh-able widgets, and a growing # of supported modules
• Drop-in install for PHP (Apache, NGINX), Node.js, and Go

Pick 1 of the following methods to download Linux Dash:

• Clone the git repo: git clone https://github.com/afaqurk/linux-dash.git
• Use composer, run composer create-project afaqurk/linux-dash -s dev
• download the source

It is strongly recommended that all Linux Dash installations be password protected.

See the instructions section for the platform of your preference.

Note: All stacks of Linux Dash provide the same functionality. You may switch platforms at any time without any further downloads.

1. Make sure you have the exec, shell_exec, and escapeshellarg functions enabled
2. Restart Apache or nginx

• Follow the Digital Ocean tutorial for PHP + Apache setup.
• For help with nginx setup, see this gist by @sergeifilippov.

1. Run npm install
2. Start Linux Dash by running: node server

• Default port is 80. You may change this in server/index.js on line 8

1. Go to the linux-dash/server folder and run go run index.go

• To build a binary, run go build && ./server -h
• See @tehbilly's notes here for binary usage options

• Backend ported to Python shell scripts & python from PHP
• Add config file
• Segregate core code-base and modules
• Each module in a separate directory with front-end template, back-end file, bash script
• Add info popover UI element for modules
• Angular tests
• Back-end tests
  • for shell files
  • for PHP, NodeJS, & Go
• "Quick Guide to Contributing" Wiki page
• Add project to package managers
  • npm
  • composer
  • aur
  • apt
• Bonus:
  • multiple server side languages supported
  • use websockets in PHP & NodeJS

• OS
• Arch
• Debian 6,7
• Ubuntu 11.04+
• Linux Mint 16+
• CentOS 5, 6
• Backend
• Node.js
• Go
• PHP 5
• Apache 2
• Nginx