Your Homelab Deserves a Dashboard. Here Is the Best One.

The problem with self-hosting many services is remembering where everything is. Portainer on nine thousand, Jellyfin on eighty ninety-six, Navidrome on forty-five thirty-three, n8n on fifty-six seventy-eight, I needed a bookmark manager for my own server. Homarr is a dashboard that shows all your services in one place with icons and links and status indicators and search, and it opens in your browser as your homelab homepage.

The Docker setup is one of the simplest, a single service with a data volume. You run docker compose up, open port seventy-five seventy-five, and you are looking at an empty grid ready for your services. Click the plus icon, add each service with its name and URL and an icon from the built-in library, and optionally enable a status check that shows a green dot when the service is up. I have sections for Media and Infrastructure and Productivity and Monitoring, each with three to five services, everything I need on one screen.

Homarr integrates directly with some of your services through their APIs. The Docker integration shows container status so you can see at a glance whether everything is running. The Sonarr and Radarr integrations show recent additions and upcoming episodes. The qBittorrent integration shows the download queue. The Pi-hole integration shows query stats. The Uptime Kuma integration shows monitor status. Enable these in the settings by entering the API URL and key, and your dashboard becomes a live operations center.

The customization options let you make the dashboard your own. Background image or gradient, color scheme, grid layout per category, search bar that searches your services, weather widget. I set my background to a dark gradient that matches my server rack LED color scheme because aesthetics matter when you look at this page every day.

Homarr turned my collection of bookmarks into an actual dashboard I enjoy opening. When I sit down at my desk I open homarr dot local and see everything I need, running status and recent activity and quick links to every service.

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