Linux Dash

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

DEMO | Installation Instructions

Features

• A beautiful, simple web-based dashboard for monitoring server info
• Only 1MB on disk! (with .git removed)
• Live graphs, refresh-able widgets, and a growing # of supported modules
• Drop-in install for servers with Apache2 or nginx + PHP
• Easy to customize and extend
• Support for wide range of linux server flavors (See Support section)

Installation

1. Make sure you have php5-json installed and enabled
2. Make sure you have the exec, shell_exec, and escapeshellarg functions enabled
3. Download the source or clone the repo
4. Place it in /var/www/ (for Apache); For nginx setup, see this gist by @sergeifilippov

Please note: If you would like to limit access to linux-dash, please add .htaccess or other security measure.

Goals for v2.0

• Backend ported to 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 project to package managers

Support

• OS
  • Arch
  • Debian 6, 7
  • Ubuntu 11.04+
  • Linux Mint 16+
  • CentOS 5, 6
• Apache 2
• Nginx
• PHP 5
• Modern browsers