Heimdall — Application Dashboard for Your Server

What it is

Heimdall is a self-hosted application dashboard that provides a unified start page for all your web services and applications. It displays application tiles with status indicators, enhanced search, and bookmark management in an elegant web interface. Heimdall integrates with many common applications to show real-time status and quick-access links.

Homelab enthusiasts, system administrators, and teams running multiple self-hosted services use Heimdall as their browser homepage to quickly navigate between tools like Plex, Sonarr, Grafana, and other web applications.

How it saves time or tokens

Without a dashboard, navigating between self-hosted services means maintaining a bookmark folder or memorizing IP addresses and ports. Heimdall centralizes all service URLs into a visual grid with icons and status checks. Its enhanced application support goes beyond simple links by pulling real-time data from supported applications, so you can see service health at a glance without opening each one individually.

How to use

1. Deploy with Docker:

docker run -d --name heimdall \
  -p 8080:80 \
  -p 8443:443 \
  -v /path/to/config:/config \
  lscr.io/linuxserver/heimdall:latest

1. Open http://localhost:8080 in your browser.
2. Click the plus icon to add application tiles. Enter the name, URL, and select an icon.
3. For enhanced applications (Sonarr, Radarr, Portainer, etc.), enter the API key to show live status data.

Example

# Docker Compose setup
version: '3.8'
services:
  heimdall:
    image: lscr.io/linuxserver/heimdall:latest
    container_name: heimdall
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=America/New_York
    volumes:
      - ./heimdall-config:/config
    ports:
      - '8080:80'
      - '8443:443'
    restart: unless-stopped

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Common pitfalls

• Heimdall does not proxy traffic. It is a dashboard with links, not a reverse proxy. Use Traefik or Nginx Proxy Manager for routing.
• Enhanced application tiles require valid API keys. Without them, tiles display as basic bookmarks without live status data.
• The default port 80/443 may conflict with existing web servers. Map to alternative host ports (e.g., 8080/8443) to avoid conflicts.