Homelab Dashboard

What This Skill Does

The Homelab Dashboard skill provides a centralized, comprehensive status monitoring interface for self-hosted infrastructure. It translates raw Linux system metrics, Docker container states, and service health checks into a human-readable, formatted dashboard. Designed for power users and administrators, it leverages native utilities like free, df, uptime, and systemctl to provide real-time telemetry on CPU load, memory consumption, storage capacity, and container availability without requiring complex monitoring stacks or API keys.

Installation

To integrate this skill into your OpenClaw environment, execute the following command in your terminal: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/sa9saq/homelab-dashboard

Ensure that your environment has standard Linux utility packages installed, such as procps-ng for system diagnostics. If you intend to monitor Docker environments, verify that the user running the agent has sufficient permissions to access the Docker socket.

Use Cases

This skill is perfect for daily health checks of your home server infrastructure. It is particularly useful for proactive maintenance, such as identifying a full disk drive before it causes system instability, detecting crashed containers that require a restart, or validating that external-facing services like Nextcloud or Gitea are responsive after a router configuration change. It is ideal for users managing multiple Linux-based services who want a quick visual representation of system health.

Example Prompts

1. "Generate a status dashboard for my entire server including Docker containers and check if my Nextcloud instance is reachable."
2. "Show me a health report for this machine, I want to know if any disk partitions are running out of space."
3. "Is my media server running? Run a health check on the docker containers and report any errors."

Tips & Limitations

To get the most out of the Homelab Dashboard, ensure you specify the URLs you wish to monitor if you have custom self-hosted services. The skill uses standard command-line tools, meaning it is highly lightweight and does not rely on external third-party telemetry services. If you are monitoring remote hosts, you can leverage SSH within the command structure for centralized reporting. Be aware that the tool requires read access to system statistics; if you encounter permission errors, consider checking your user group privileges. Always ensure that sensitive internal URLs or IP addresses are treated with care, as the output is designed to be shared or reviewed in chat interfaces.