Terminal Dashboards

A dashboard collects several live readings onto one screen. In the terminal that means a grid of panels, each one running a command, tailing a log or reading a metric, redrawn on a timer.

 

Some are general purpose, where a YAML or TOML file defines what every panel shows. Others are built for a single system: pull requests and CI status, a Kubernetes cluster, a job queue or web server logs. They tend to run on a spare monitor or inside a detached terminal multiplexer session so they keep collecting while nobody is watching.

 

Below is a list of terminal tools that display dashboards.