Ruby (Sinatra) framework for team wallboard dashboards built from widgets that pull data from scripts and APIs; community fork of Shopify's Dashing.
Maintenance only No commits to the main repository since 2023-03-10 (GitHub).
Pricing and hosting
- Pricing
- Free
- Open source
- Yes (MIT)
- Self-hosted
- Yes
- Launched
- 2012
- Status
- Maintenance only
- Website
- smashing.github.io
Plans and prices change; check the tool's own site before you decide.
What it does
Dashboards and visualization checklist
1 of 8 confirmed in Smashing's own documentation. The same checklist is used for every tool in Dashboards.
- Many data sources No
- Prometheus source No
- SQL sources No
- Alerting No
- Template variables Not confirmed
- Dashboards as code Yes
- Sharing Not confirmed
- Annotations Not confirmed
Widget framework: data arrives only through Ruby jobs you write, so no built-in data sources or alerting; dashboards are files in the project
Checked against: github.com, github.com (2)
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