Dashy — Self-Hosted Dashboard for Your Homelab

What it is

Dashy is a highly customizable, self-hosted dashboard application. It organizes your services, bookmarks, monitoring widgets, and quick-access links in a single interface. You configure everything in a YAML file, and Dashy renders a responsive grid with icons, status indicators, and search.

Dashy targets homelab enthusiasts, self-hosters, and small teams who run multiple services and want a single launch page instead of remembering dozens of URLs.

How it saves time or tokens

Dashy replaces browser bookmark folders with a visual, searchable dashboard. Status checks run automatically, so you see at a glance which services are up or down. The search bar lets you find any service instantly instead of scrolling through bookmark lists.

For AI-assisted infrastructure management, Dashy's YAML config is easy for agents to generate and update programmatically.

How to use

1. Deploy with Docker: docker run -d -p 4000:80 lissy93/dashy
2. Edit the config file at /app/user-data/conf.yml
3. Add sections and items with URLs, icons, and descriptions
4. Reload the dashboard to see changes

Example

# conf.yml
pageInfo:
  title: My Homelab
  navLinks:
    - title: GitHub
      path: https://github.com

sections:
  - name: Infrastructure
    items:
      - title: Proxmox
        url: https://proxmox.local:8006
        icon: hl-proxmox
        statusCheck: true
      - title: Portainer
        url: https://portainer.local:9443
        icon: hl-portainer
        statusCheck: true
  - name: Media
    items:
      - title: Plex
        url: https://plex.local:32400
        icon: hl-plex
      - title: Jellyfin
        url: https://jellyfin.local:8096
        icon: hl-jellyfin

Related on TokRepo

• Self-hosted tools -- Self-hosted application alternatives
• Monitoring tools -- Service monitoring and alerting

Common pitfalls

• Status checks make HTTP requests from the Dashy container; ensure network connectivity to internal services
• Large dashboards with many status checks can be slow; stagger check intervals or disable checks for stable services
• Dashy stores config in a single YAML file; back it up before making changes to avoid losing your layout