Dashboard and Monitoring for Self Hosted Option?

[niklasgrewe]

Hello, everyone,
first of all I would like to thank you for this great project. Directus is really excellent and flexible solution in the CMS area. I now see that it is even possible to integrate dashboards. But are the dashboards only for the cloud version? I didn't find a way to create dashboards in my self-hosted instance, only collections.

I can understand that some features are only available in the cloud, but does that have to apply to dashboards as well? For me personally, it would be much easier if I could display my website analytics in Directus without having to use the cloud variant.

Are there any possibilities to implement this? Please correct my way of thinking here. I am just starting to get to know Directus 😉

[rijkvanzanten]

Heya! There are no "native dashboards" in Directus yet, but you should be able to whip something up pretty fast by using a custom module combined with a graph library like Chart.js 🙂

[benhaynes]

To add to this, we do plan on having a general charting dashboard in version 9... but it will be a one size fits all solution for general data. Version 9 will have a slightly different way to build these module extensions, and that information will be updated in the docs as we approach the official production release of version 9.

[niklasgrewe]

@benhaynes thank you for the helpful information, I'm glad to hear it. Can you tell me when v9 will come out? I don't think I've seen anything on your roadmap yet...

[benhaynes]

There's an alpha out now, but there's no official release date for production. Likely one to two months. Although versions before then will likely be usable, especially for developing extensions.

[rijkvanzanten]

See https://github.com/directus/next 🙂

[sercanvirlan]

I tutorial would be awesome about how to manage navigation, sidebar maybe a boilerplate can hit this needs. The design above looks gorgeous!!