Dashy vs Heimdall
A side-by-side comparison of two self-hosted dashboards & startpages options
— licensing, setup difficulty, resource needs, and what each one
replaces.
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Compare Dashy with
choose an app… Uptime Kuma Netdata Grafana Prometheus Portainer CE CasaOS Glance What's Up Status Glances Homepage InfluxDB Grafana k6 Grafana Loki Apache SkyWalking Beszel Dockge Jaeger Vector Cube Sampler Dashboard Homer Benphelps Homepage Glances Web Dashboard Flame Cosmos Server Organizr Your Spotify Dashboard Homarr Personal Management System Walkxcode Startpage dashdot Speedtest Tracker Dashboard Smashing Lobe Startpage Dockpeek Apprise Dashboard Chronograf DashMachine Lissy93 Dashy Themes Statusnook Dash. by phntxx Flemmarr Fenrus Mafl Starbase 80 Grafonnet Dashboards Grafana Image Renderer Grafana Scenes Kiosk LXD Dashboard Homepage by tomershvueli Web-Portal Dashbrr Hiccup DMARCguard Webtop Dashboard portkey Hubleys Yacht gobookmarks Startpunkt
Compare Heimdall with
choose an app… Uptime Kuma Netdata Grafana Prometheus Portainer CE CasaOS Glance What's Up Status Glances Homepage InfluxDB Grafana k6 Grafana Loki Apache SkyWalking Beszel Dockge Jaeger Vector Cube Sampler Dashboard Homer Benphelps Homepage Glances Web Dashboard Flame Cosmos Server Organizr Your Spotify Dashboard Homarr Personal Management System Walkxcode Startpage dashdot Speedtest Tracker Dashboard Smashing Lobe Startpage Dockpeek Apprise Dashboard Fenrus Mafl
Feature Dashy Heimdall Category Dashboards & Startpages Dashboards & Startpages License MIT MIT Language Vue PHP Setup difficulty Easy Easy Min. RAM 256 MB 256 MB Deployment docker docker GitHub stars ★ 26,140 ★ 9,291 First released 2021 2017 Replaces Heimdall Heimdall
Why pick each one
Choose Dashy if… Very feature-rich Lots of themes Built-in status checks Dashy details Choose Heimdall if… Very simple to set up Clean look Low maintenance Heimdall details
Frequently asked questions Is Dashy or Heimdall better? Neither is universally better. Dashy has the larger community; both share a easy setup difficulty, so the decision comes down to features and licensing.
Are Dashy and Heimdall free and open-source? Yes. Dashy is licensed under MIT and Heimdall under MIT. Both can be self-hosted at no software cost.
Can I run Dashy and Heimdall with Docker? Dashy: yes. Heimdall: yes.