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Anyone know other good alternatives to this project? I've used the open-source Freeboard project[1] before, but curious what else is out there.

[1] https://github.com/Freeboard/freeboard

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My employer has open-sourced our internal dashboarding platform, Cyclotron[1]. It has a responsive grid layout, data sources, widgets, multiple pages, etc. We've been using it internally for the past few years, and it's still in active development.

[1] http://www.cyclotron.io/

(Disclaimer: I'm the developer, happy to answer questions.)

This looks really cool. I posted a question under the Freeboard recommendation because I just want something for the LAN only. Many of the other seem to be subscription services and for me, that's overkill.

I'm going to check it out when I get some free cycles, maybe over Christmas.

We have used Grafana in some major client cases.

https://grafana.net/

In the windows world I would recommend Power BI [1].

Our nightly test server generates a lot of performance metrics which are stored in an excel file. We upload the excel to OneDrive and Power BI periodically refreshes a report dashboard which we display on a large screen within a browser.

The designer (Power BI Desktop) is really nice. The data aggregation and shaping is powerful. The only drawback we experienced is that the provided visualizations [2] are sometimes a bit limited, there are custom ones [3] with varying quality though.

You need Power BI Pro for this auto-sync scenario, but we got such a license for free through our msdn account.

[1]: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/

[2]: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-se...

[3]: https://app.powerbi.com/visuals

What kind of additional chart types are you looking for? I'm building a power pivot like desktop tool and find people often would like more variety of chart types besides bar, line, scatters and heatmaps, but I can't determine if it's because of aesthetics or there is analyses they can't perform with standard charts.

There is OpenMCT from NASA:

https://nasa.github.io/openmct/

Dashing from Etsy: http://dashing.io/

Spotify

Actually, Shopify :)

Ha, thanks

Dashing is sadly abandoned. [0]
[0] https://github.com/Shopify/dashing/issues/711

Indeed. Is https://github.com/talpor/django-dashing/ any healthier?

This fork looks actively maintained: https://github.com/SmashingDashboard/smashing

We use dashing at my workplace extensively. From my research into the space a year ago, dashing is the one with the largest library of plugins [0], and its super easy to make your own- here's mine [1].
[0] https://github.com/Shopify/dashing/wiki/Additional-Widgets
[1] https://github.com/aysark/dashing-timeline

+1 for dashing [1]
While not actively maintained by Shopify anymore it's working really well, has easy setup and allows you to get up and running quickly.
The grid system and basic widgets provide a good and clean starting point, although you probably want to invest some time to make it visually coherent if you're using a large amount of third-party plugins.
Our team is using it for polled data that is updated once an hour up to every minute and it's working great for us.
[1] http://dashing.io

Dashing seems eye-appealing to start and there are many widgets, however most are abandoned like Dashing. IMHO Dashing has an awkward syntax to add or extend widgets which is why it dropped off.
That's one of the reasons I updated Godot [0] (similar to Ruby's Riemann), a NodeJS stream processor, and re-ported Riemann's dash [1] to match.
You can send any event into the stream processor including any metadata, and receive it into any of the dash widgets, such as Title, List, Grid, Knob, Timeseries, and many more. I use it to monitor anything from active container instances to queue stats to CPU wait times.
It's really similar to Dashing, in fact I ported the Knob directly from Dashing, but it's much much easier to add a data source.
As a bonus any event can trigger a Slack, email, SMS, or webhook.
If you have any trouble getting running just open an issue, the docs still have a few holes.
[0]: https://github.com/nextorigin/godot2
[1]: https://github.com/nextorigin/godot2-dash

Atlasboard from Atlassian: http://atlasboard.bitbucket.org/
Plenty of commits in 2016 ... seems to be actively maintained: https://bitbucket.org/atlassian/atlasboard/commits/all

Freeboard looks neat. Do you know if the github code is all you need to get started? I'd like to make a little personal dashboard that displays my agenda for today from my calendar, a live feed from a webcam on my LAN, a clock, and maybe the current weather conditions. I don't want to subscribe to a service and I don't want the dashboard accessible from anywhere but the LAN. Is Freeboard something I could use?

While not an exact match in functionality, Cluvio (https://www.cluvio.com) is a similar product that allows you to quickly build beautiful interactive dashboards based on SQL queries (and optional R processing).
It is a platform for analyzing primarily business data, but it still may be of a lot of value for current statusboard customers.
Disclaimer: I am one of the founders.

You can look at Google Data Studio. It is early days and it is Google, but looks promising for some of my needs.
https://www.google.com/analytics/data-studio/

+1 Infocaptor [http://www.infocaptor.com]
Simple Grids to powerful visualizations. Connects with all standard SQL databases

I always thought that Metabase ( http://www.metabase.com/ ) looks promising.

https://github.com/yaronn/blessed-contrib

I was going to suggest Numerous app, but it looks like they have shut down as well. Musn't be enough demand or money in dashboard apps, it seems?!?

I'm also curious as to what alternatives exist. Am often asked by clients to recommend a web dashboard framework.

kibana?

Kibana can only connect to an Elasticsearch backend, usually with Logstash to parse/format the data.
So I don't think it would fit in the use cases from other people in this thread.

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