localhost

What it is

The localhost dashboard is a small public status page for services I run at home. It checks configured local services through a status endpoint and shows which ones are reachable. It is useful when I want one URL to answer “is the thing on?” without opening each project separately.

Current status: Live.

Use it

Open the status page. The service list shows the latest reachability result exposed by the dashboard. An “online” result means the status checker could reach the service from the machine running the check; it does not guarantee that every network or user can reach the service.

How it works

configured local services → status check endpoint → dashboard → public read-only page

The public page is intentionally just a status view. The checker runs from the host where the services are reachable, which avoids pretending that a service is healthy based only on a browser running somewhere else.

Tech stack

The public dashboard is a lightweight static JavaScript/CSS site, with a small serverless status endpoint in functions/api/localhost-status.js. The surrounding personal dashboard is deployed as static web assets and Cloudflare Pages/Workers functions. The exact service list and deployment configuration live in the dashboard repository.

Privacy and limitations

This page reports reachability, not a full monitoring/SLO system. It does not replace logs, uptime history, alerting, or health checks inside each service. Do not expose credentials or private service URLs in the public configuration. A service can be online from the checker host and still be blocked from the public internet by NAT, firewall, or DNS.

Troubleshooting

Everything is offline: check that the host is running, the local service ports are listening, and the status function can reach them. Then check DNS and the tunnel/reverse-proxy path.

One service is offline: inspect that service's process and port first. A status failure is often the useful first signal, not the root cause.

The page is stale: refresh the page and inspect the endpoint response. If the endpoint itself is unavailable, check the deployment logs and the host running the checks.

Develop

git clone https://github.com/YashasVM/dash.git
cd dash
node --version

The repository contains the public dashboard assets, the status function, and a separate docs-site Next.js/Fumadocs application. Keep local hostnames, tokens, and private endpoints out of public files.