linuxserver/Heimdall
Heimdall
Heimdall is a self-hosted application dashboard and local network service portal. It functions as a visual landing page and application link manager used to organize shortcuts to internal and external web services using customizable tiles and icons.
The project serves as a service API integration hub, fetching and displaying real-time status and metrics from external services directly on dashboard tiles via authorized API endpoints. It simplifies local network navigation by providing a directory of private IP addresses and services, including a toggle to control internal network requests.
The platform includes tools for home lab organization and application health monitoring. It utilizes a community-driven application registry and template import system to automatically populate metadata and icons for service links. To ensure availability during internet outages, the system supports offline metadata hosting through local file fallbacks.
The dashboard also includes custom search provider configuration to manage external search engines and internal filters.
Features
- Service Dashboards - Provides a centralized web interface for navigating and launching multiple internal applications and self-hosted services.
- Application Link Managers - Provides a centralized interface for importing community app templates and organizing web shortcuts.
- Link Aggregators - Functions as a platform for creating and managing a centralized collection of internal and external service links.
- Service Portals - Serves as a unified web gateway for organizing and accessing self-hosted services within a private network.
- Self-Hosted Link Managers - Acts as a privately hosted link manager for organizing self-hosted applications in a home lab.
- Local Network Service Directories - Provides a simplified directory of private IP addresses to avoid remembering complex local URLs and ports.
- Application Templates - Provides a system for managing and importing reusable application templates for service links.
- Configuration Importers - Provides tools for importing predefined metadata and icon sets from a remote database.
- External Service Integrations - Provides connectors for interacting with remote APIs to fetch real-time status and metrics for dashboard tiles.
- Community Template Imports - Enables downloading pre-configured metadata and icons from a community-maintained database.
- Request Proxies - Includes a proxy mechanism to route requests to private IP addresses for local network service communication.
- Private IP Access Toggles - Includes a toggle to permit or block requests to private IP addresses for communication with local network services.
- Community Metadata Registries - Utilizes a community-driven registry to automatically populate service metadata and icons.
- Real-Time Metric Visualization - Implements visual rendering of live service metrics using tiles and gauges within the dashboard interface.
- Real-Time Monitoring Dashboards - Implements an interface for tracking the health and performance metrics of applications in real-time.
- Service API Integration Hubs - Fetches and displays real-time status and metrics from various external services via authorized API endpoints.
- Status Monitors - Integrates live status and health metrics from service APIs directly into dashboard tiles.
- DevOps & Infrastructure - Application dashboard for organizing web service links.
- Service Dashboards - Dashboard and application launcher for self-hosted services.
- Dashboards and Portals - Launches and monitors web applications.
- Server Dashboards - Application dashboard and launcher for homelabs.
- Web Startpages - Service-oriented dashboard for managing web applications.
