Alternatives · Dashboards & Status
Dashy alternatives (2026)
Dashy: Pick Dashy if you want to tweak every pixel of your dashboard from the browser.
Its Catch: It overlaps heavily with Homepage; Dashy leans toward UI customisation, Homepage toward service widgets.
Below: 3 free or free-tier tools from the same category (dashboards and status pages), free and open source first, then the closest match by shared tags. Each keeps its own Catch.
Free / OSS · Apache-2.0 · 1.8k GitHub stars
VerdictA much nicer `kubectl logs -f` for whole workloads.
CatchIt reads what the cluster still holds, so it does not replace a log store for history or search across days. Large clusters with chatty workloads can strain the API server. Still pre-1.0.
Free / OSS · GPL-3.0 · 33.2k GitHub stars
VerdictThe homelab dashboard most people end up on — clean, fast and Docker-aware.
CatchIt is a dashboard, not monitoring: it shows status but does not alert you. Configuration is hand-edited YAML, and complex layouts take trial and error. Do not expose it publicly without auth in front, since it can reveal what you run.
Free / OSS · AGPL-3.0 · 37.5k GitHub stars
VerdictThe nicest way to turn your daily feeds into one fast page — a reader, not a control panel.
CatchConfiguration is YAML only, with no editor in the UI. It is a reading dashboard, not an app launcher with integrations as deep as Homepage. Still pre-1.0. Stars have grown fast (about 290 a week since 2024), but this is an established, actively released project.
FAQ
- What are the best free alternatives to Dashy?
- Kubetail, Homepage, Glance. All are reviewed on Stack Gems in the same category (dashboards and status pages); 3 free or open source.
- What is the catch with Dashy?
- It overlaps heavily with Homepage; Dashy leans toward UI customisation, Homepage toward service widgets.
- Is there an open-source alternative to Dashy?
- Yes: Kubetail (Apache-2.0), Homepage (GPL-3.0), Glance (AGPL-3.0).