Published May 11, 2026, 4:30 PM EDT Shekhar Vaidya is a veteran technology journalist and computer science engineer. He is the founder of TechLatest, where he has spent years providing technical analysis on hardware and Windows ecosystems. Now a Computing Writer at XDA, Shekhar leverages his deep background in NAS, storage solutions, and PC internals to help readers master their tech. Sign in to your XDA account Server dashboards are rarely one-size-fits-all. Requirements, styling, and use cases vary widely from user to user. They are either lightweight but limited, or feature-packed but heavier than the containers they monitor. In my case, I run my homelab server on a repurposed desktop, and I'm already running more than 17 Docker containers across seven services. In other words, the server was already near its limits, so a heavy, feature-packed dashboard wasn't a viable option in my case. That’s when I decided to build one that fits my requirements and stays lightweight on my hardware.…