Dockge
Dashboards & StartpagesFancy, reactive, self-hosted Docker Compose stack manager
Replaces Portainer
Best Real-Time Dashboards & Startpages for self-hosting
The 8 best Real-Time dashboards & startpages you can self-host, ranked by community traction.
Cube
Dashboards & StartpagesSemantic layer and headless BI for building data apps
Replaces Looker, AtScale
Sampler Dashboard
Dashboards & StartpagesTerminal dashboard for visualizing shell command output
Replaces Grafana
Smashing
Dashboards & StartpagesSinatra-based dashboard framework for custom widgets
Replaces Geckoboard
Dockpeek
Dashboards & StartpagesDashboard that auto-discovers Docker container links
Replaces Heimdall
Chronograf
Dashboards & StartpagesVisualization and admin interface for the InfluxData stack
Replaces Grafana Cloud, Datadog Dashboards
Grafana Scenes Kiosk
Dashboards & StartpagesRotating kiosk display for Grafana dashboards
Replaces Grafana Kiosk
Dashbrr
Dashboards & StartpagesService health dashboard for media automation stacks
Replaces Organizr
No apps match these filters.
At a glance
| App | Deploy effort | Difficulty | Min. RAM | License | ★ Stars |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dockge | ≈5-minute setup | Easy | 128 MB | MIT | 24,604 |
| Cube | Under-an-hour setup | Medium | 512 MB | Apache-2.0 | 21,006 |
| Sampler Dashboard | Read-the-docs project | Easy | 64 MB | GPL-3.0 | 14,807 |
| Smashing | Under-an-hour setup | Medium | 256 MB | MIT | 3,301 |
| Dockpeek | Under-an-hour setup | Easy | 128 MB | MIT | 2,115 |
| Chronograf | Under-an-hour setup | Easy | 256 MB | AGPL-3.0 | 1,567 |
| Grafana Scenes Kiosk | Under-an-hour setup | Easy | 128 MB | Apache-2.0 | 494 |
| Dashbrr | Under-an-hour setup | Easy | 128 MB | GPL-3.0 | 329 |
Quick picks
- Most adopted: Dockge (24,604 GitHub stars).
- Lightest footprint: Sampler Dashboard (from 64 MB RAM, against 512 MB for the heaviest here).
- Fastest to deploy: Dockge (verified single-container compose).
- Licensing: 3 of 8 use MIT; check the rest individually if you plan to modify and redistribute.
Every option here is open-source and self-hostable, tagged Real-Time within the dashboards & startpages category. Deploy effort is graded from published container recipes, not vendor claims — see the methodology.