Nimbus
Modern drag-and-drop homelab dashboard with visual editor and simple configuration.
Description from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Still maintained? Yes: 32 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v2.0.0 (Oct 2026).
Comparisons in Personal Dashboards: Linktree alternatives.
At a glance
Nimbus quick facts
- Health score
- 89/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 135
- Last commit
- 6 days ago (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v2.0.0, Oct 2026
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "A modern, self-hosted dashboard for monitoring and managing your homelab services. Multi-user support, real-time health checks, beautiful themes, and Prometheus metrics."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Nimbus scores 89/100, #6 of 19 in Personal Dashboards: 32 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (v2.0.0, 24 days ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 135 stars add 8.5 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and Docker support adds the final 10. That places it in the good band (70 and above). The biggest shortfall is star count, worth 11.5 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
32 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
v2.0.0 released 24 days ago
- Stars biggest shortfall 8.5 / 20
135 stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 10.0 / 10
Docker image or Compose file available
Commit activity
- 32
- Last 90 days
- 61
- Last 12 months
- 6 days ago
- Last push
Ranked #6 of 19 tools in Personal Dashboards by health , between Personal Management System (#5) and portkey (#7) .
Details
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 |
| Platforms | Docker |
| Latest release | v2.0.0 · 24 days ago |
| Stars | 135 |
| Open issues | 28 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | Turbootzz/Nimbus ↗ |
Nimbus vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with Nimbus (Personal Dashboards), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dashy | 98 | 27k | MIT | today |
| Glance | 98 | 38k | AGPL-3.0 | 10 days ago |
| Homepage by gethomepage | 98 | 33k | GPL-3.0 | today |
| Homarr | 95 | 5.2k | MIT | today |
| Nimbus (this tool) | 89 | 135 | AGPL-3.0 | 6 days ago |
| portkey | 89 | 183 | AGPL-3.0 | yesterday |
Nimbus: common questions
Is Nimbus still maintained?
Nimbus had 32 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 6 days ago; the latest tagged release, v2.0.0, is from 24 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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