My monitoring dashboard — Halfmoon dark mode

Built a server monitoring dashboard for my homelab using BaseFrame + Halfmoon adapter .

The dark-first approach is perfect for dashboards — easy on the eyes during late night debugging sessions. The sidebar has real-time stats modules and the main content area shows log entries in a category list view.

No custom JavaScript at all. Pure Joomla + CSS.

Screenshot coming once I figure out how to attach images here.

This is sick. How are you handling the real-time stats? Custom module with AJAX polling?

I have been thinking about building something similar for my network monitoring setup. The Halfmoon adapter seems perfect for it.

No AJAX. I'm using a cron job that updates custom fields on articles every 5 minutes via the Joomla CLI. The frontend just renders the latest values. Dead simple.

The custom fields display feature in BaseFrame base.css handles the rendering. Fields show as label:value pairs next to each article.