Before lifting a heavy four-unit storage server or rewiring a cramped network closet, you can map every unit of cabinet space in Rackula, an interactive drag-and-drop rack layout designer and capacity planner. Instead of staring at generic grey rectangles in a spreadsheet, you pull switches, routers, patch panels, UPS battery banks, and rackmount chassis from a hardware catalog populated with authentic front and rear faceplates from the NetBox device library. Equipment snaps cleanly to standard EIA-310 rack unit boundaries, while half-width gear and mini PCs nest inside one-unit carrier shelves and mounting brackets. Audiovisual technicians can group bayed cabinets side by side to plan amplifier racks, signal processor chains, and patch bays across multi-rack installations. Network engineers and data center operators can rearrange hardware with full undo and redo history, attach custom device graphics, and export crisp diagrams as PNG, SVG, or PDF files for runbooks and change control tickets. Sharing a proposed cabinet topology with a colleague in the field takes seconds using an encoded URL or a scannable QR code that opens on mobile browsers. Server-side persistence stores your rack definitions as portable YAML files and supports optional local accounts or OpenID Connect single sign-on for shared infrastructure teams. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

NetMap answers the four questions every homelab owner asks in four different tools: what is on my network, what address did it get, is it still up, and why is the firewall shouting about it. Devices you add appear automatically on a visual canvas where you can drag them into place, draw the links between them, and group them into VLANs or separate sites, and the layout is still there when you come back. Behind the map, every device is watched continuously: ping times graphed over history, service checks on the ports you care about, a heartbeat strip that betrays intermittent dropouts, and an uptime percentage that settles arguments. Address management stops being a spreadsheet: define subnets, import the leases your router already handed out, see used and free addresses as a grid, and get warned before a duplicate assignment causes a mysterious outage. Firewall logs stream in live and each entry links to the device it concerns, ready to search by address, port, or protocol. When something new appears, a network scan discovers hosts with their names, hardware addresses, and open ports for review before they join the inventory. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GPL-3.0 licensed.

HomeLabInfo gives your homelab one dashboard where the network itself and everything running on it finally appear together, instead of scattered across router pages and terminal sessions. It watches for new devices the instant they ask the network for an address, identifies who made them, and can fire a webhook so you hear about a stranger joining your LAN before you notice it yourself. Scans keep track of which devices are online and which have gone quiet, and the interactive topology view lets you arrange the map of switches, access points, NAS boxes, and servers the way your rack actually looks. Lightweight agents installed on each machine report their containers back to the hub, so running and stopped containers, uptime, health, and host CPU, memory, and disk all show in one place without opening a separate tool per server. When an agent falls behind, its card tells you a newer version exists instead of leaving you guessing. You can add a username and password login before putting the dashboard anywhere beyond your desk, and arrange container layouts that stay put between visits. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GPL-3.0 licensed.

Mapping every physical server, virtual machine, container, and network link across a sprawling homelab into a live interactive canvas, Circuit Breaker gives infrastructure operators real-time topology visualization, IP address management, and rack elevation modeling on a single screen. Operators can switch between hierarchical, concentric, cortex ring, radial, and force-directed graph layouts where animated edges reflect link speeds and color-coded status rings display live hardware health. Automated discovery scans local subnets using nmap, SNMP, and ARP while querying Proxmox VE clusters, TrueNAS storage pools, and UniFi controllers, staging newly detected nodes in a review queue before adding them to the map. For multi-site labs or isolated VLANs, lightweight remote agents connect outbound over Noise-encrypted links after fingerprint approval to report host telemetry and run scoped network scans without opening inbound firewall ports. Rack diagrams let administrators drag servers into U slots with cabling overlays using a built-in catalog covering Dell, HPE, Supermicro, Ubiquiti, MikroTik, Synology, and APC gear alongside live iDRAC, iLO, and UPS metrics. Role-based access control, OIDC single sign-on, TOTP multi-factor authentication, encrypted full-state snapshots, and a SHA-256 hash-chained audit log keep multi-user operations accountable. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Before the maintenance window, know exactly where the traffic will go: Topolograph rebuilds your network the way its routing protocols see it and lets you break it safely on screen. Upload one router's LSDB output, from Cisco, Juniper, Arista, FRRouting, MikroTik, and a dozen other vendors, and the whole area's topology appears as an interactive graph, because the protocol already flooded it everywhere. Compute the shortest path between any two routers and see every equal-cost alternative with per-link loads, then fail a link or a node and watch SPF recalculate: which pairs moved to backup, which are left with none, and how the load shifted on every surviving link. Search the graph for prefixes, MAC addresses, or any network element, plan an MPLS TE path against real bandwidth attributes, and compare snapshots from different moments to answer what changed before the incident. Collectors can stream live OSPF, IS-IS, and BGP events over GRE, BGP-LS, or BMP so the timeline replays the network at the moment things broke, and a REST API, Python SDK, and MCP server let your own tooling and AI agents ask the same questions. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Every cable, switch port, VLAN, and rack unit in a homelab or small server room gets a documented place in Rackpad, a self-hosted inventory and operations workspace. Rack elevations show mounted gear, including paired half-width appliances. Switch-panel port maps and aggregate ports show what is patched where. Cables carry type, length, and color, editable in bulk. VLANs, subnets, DHCP scopes, reservations, and zones sit in one Networks workspace, with gateway and DNS protection and a mismatch review for IP assignments. Storage topology follows drives, bays, and pools that span several devices. Wi-Fi controllers, access points, hypervisor hosts, and virtual machines have pages of their own, and Proxmox and Hyper-V hosts can be imported after review. Discovery scans a subnet or any CIDR and stages every finding in an inbox. Per-device checks over ICMP, TCP, HTTP, HTTPS, and SNMP raise alerts by email, Discord, or Telegram. Everything feeds a movable topology map. Markdown runbooks attach to devices, and an audit log records every change. Admin, editor, and viewer roles control access, and OpenID Connect login is optional. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Every server, switch port, virtual machine, and network VLAN in a homelab or small IT environment can be cataloged, visualized, and exported through RackPeek's unified web interface and command-line toolkit. Operators record rack-mounted servers, managed switches, routers, firewalls, wireless access points, and uninterruptible power supplies alongside their CPU, memory, and storage specifications in a clean browser dashboard. Beyond physical gear, the inventory tracks operating systems, containerized or bare-metal services, IP subnets, and port-to-port cable connections while organizing assets with searchable tags and key-value labels. From that structured inventory, the interactive visualization engine renders live physical wiring diagrams and logical subnet-grouped service maps that export directly as high-resolution PNG graphics or Mermaid flowcharts. Because all state lives in a single human-readable configuration file backed by built-in Git repository synchronization, teams can version-control infrastructure changes or push automated updates through the authenticated REST API with dry-run diff previews. Day-to-day administration becomes faster with built-in generators that turn your cataloged hosts into ready-to-use Ansible inventory files, SSH client configurations, and tag-filtered hosts tables. Line-and-column validation feedback in the web editor catches schema mistakes immediately before changes are committed. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

Homelable turns your entire homelab into a live, interactive network canvas where every device, link, and service shows its real-time status at a glance. Run an nmap-powered network scan against your subnets and the tool fingerprints services, queues unknown devices for review, and drops approved hosts onto a drag-and-drop canvas with 15 native node types covering routers, switches, hypervisors, NAS boxes, IoT sensors, and more. Import your full Zigbee2MQTT mesh (controllers, routers, end devices with link quality indicators) and Z-Wave JS device trees in one click, preserving the actual RF topology without manual wiring. Proxmox integration pulls in hosts, VMs, and LXC containers so you can nest virtual machines inside their parent hypervisor node on the canvas. The Rack Canvas mode documents the physical side of your lab: create racks with configurable U-height, mount gear into slots, and patch ports across devices to track your cabling. Health checks run every 60 seconds using ping, HTTP, HTTPS, TCP, SSH, or Prometheus scrape endpoints, with WebSocket push delivering green, red, or pending status pulses directly to the canvas. Split your infrastructure across multiple canvases organized by site, rack, or purpose, and share a read-only Live View URL with anyone on your network. A built-in Model Context Protocol server lets AI assistants like Claude query and modify your topology through natural language. Deploy on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Half the architecture sketches on the internet trace back to Excalidraw - the MIT-licensed virtual whiteboard whose hand-drawn aesthetic made technical diagramming feel approachable, at roughly 85,000 GitHub stars. The infinite canvas offers rectangles, ellipses, diamonds, arrows with smart binding and labels, free-draw, text, images, and an eraser, with full undo/redo, zoom, dark mode, and keyboard-first ergonomics. Community shape libraries add thousands of pre-built elements - AWS architecture icons, flowchart stencils, UI wireframe kits - and everything exports to PNG, SVG, the clipboard, or the open .excalidraw JSON format that keeps drawings diffable and portable. Live collaboration works on a share-a-link model with live cursors and a laser pointer for presenting, and it is end-to-end encrypted by design: the room key travels in the URL hash, which never reaches the server, so the WebSocket relay only ever sees ciphertext. The architecture is remarkably light - the app is a static bundle served by Nginx, drawings persist locally in the browser, and the stateless excalidraw-room relay handles multiplayer - so a self-hosted deployment gives unlimited boards and collaborators with near-zero resource cost, replacing per-editor whiteboard subscriptions.

draw.io is a free, browser-based diagramming editor for flowcharts, network maps, UML models, and org charts, with nothing to install. An infinite canvas takes shapes from extensive libraries, connectors reroute automatically as shapes move, and ready-made templates replace the blank page. Tables, swimlanes, layers, and tags keep large diagrams tidy, and shape metadata and placeholders attach tooltips, links, and translations. Auto-layout straightens flowcharts and trees. Math typesetting, a simple whiteboard layout, and adaptive dark mode are built in, and custom shape libraries carry your own in-house icon sets. Export to PNG, JPEG, WebP, SVG, HTML, or PDF, embed the diagram data inside PNG and SVG files so they stay editable, or save the full diagram as a .drawio file. Your server stores no diagrams: files go to the user's device, the browser, or Google Drive, OneDrive, and GitLab once you register your own OAuth app. Optional AI diagram generation uses your own provider key, and environment variables set the interface language, fonts, and security policy. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache-2.0 licensed.

Excaliself turns the Excalidraw canvas into your team's own whiteboard server, where every sketch, diagram, and flowchart lives in your database instead of a vendor's cloud. The home screen works like a file cabinet for drawings: nest them in folders, star the keepers, drag files between spaces, and find anything again by title or by the text inside the drawing. Share a link and teammates edit together in real time with live cursors and follow mode; links can stay members-only or open to guests who have no account at all. A shared Team space sits next to everyone's private space, and one team library holds the shapes and icons the whole group reuses. AI clients can join with a personal access token: Claude Code or Claude Desktop can search your drawings, read what a diagram says, and create new ones from shapes or a Mermaid flowchart. Accounts are invite-only, single sign-on covers Google, Microsoft, and any OIDC provider, and admins manage members, roles, and password resets from Settings. Deleted drawings rest in a trash folder for thirty days before they are purged, and everything auto-saves as you draw. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

ExcaliDash adds persistent storage, access control, version history, and real-time collaboration to Excalidraw, transforming ephemeral whiteboarding sessions into a managed drawing library your team can rely on. The Node.js/Express backend with React/TypeScript frontend deploys via Docker Compose on port 6767, using Prisma ORM on SQLite for all drawings, users, and metadata. WebSocket-powered collaboration lets multiple users edit the same canvas simultaneously with live cursor presence. Drawing snapshots preserve every revision with visual preview and one-click restore to any previous state. Three authentication modes handle different deployment needs: local email/password for personal use, hybrid mode mixing native credentials with OIDC for gradual enterprise adoption, and enforced OIDC-only for organizations requiring SSO through providers like Authentik or Keycloak. Scoped sharing controls determine whether drawings stay private, shared internally with team members, or accessible via external links without authentication. Collections organize drawings through drag-and-drop grouping, full-text search locates any diagram instantly, and exports use the non-proprietary .excalidraw format ensuring complete data portability. 1,350+ stars since November 2025. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

Technical teams frequently struggle to keep software architecture diagrams synchronized with evolving codebases and documentation repositories. Atlantis Diagrams delivers a unified self-hosted workspace that couples code-driven Mermaid.js diagramming with structured Markdown knowledge bases in a responsive web interface. Engineers can compose flowcharts, sequence diagrams, state machines, entity-relationship models, and Gantt schedules using split-view CodeMirror editors with real-time SVG rendering. An integrated version history tracker automatically captures revision checkpoints across the last 15 document states, letting authors compare modifications and restore previous iterations without data loss. The linked notes environment supports rich Markdown editing, LaTeX mathematical formulas, interactive task checklists, tag indexing, and full-text keyword searches across personal documentation libraries. Canvas controls allow users to pan, zoom, inspect individual nodes, and export finalized graphics directly into vector SVG, high-resolution PNG, or printable PDF documents. Storage engines adapt to deployment scale, running on zero-configuration SQLite databases out of the box with optional PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Redis caching layers for high-concurrency environments. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Draw it, write it as code, or hand it to your AI agent: OpenFlowKit is an open-source diagram canvas where the picture and the text behind it are always the same diagram. Drag shapes on the canvas or type a few forgiving lines, and each side regenerates the other as a single undo step. Ten diagram types share that one language: architecture with C4 views and cloud icons, sequence, flowchart, entity-relationship, state, class, mind maps, git graphs, charts, and wireframes. Paste Mermaid, Structurizr, or D2 and it converts into editable shapes, and Copy as Mermaid sends a flowchart or sequence back out for your README. Paste a GitHub repository instead and Map mode draws its architecture for you, with every arrow citing the exact file and line behind it, and a CLI that maps a local checkout for private repos. Connect Claude Code, Cursor, or any MCP client and the agent draws on your live canvas, restyles what is there, and screenshots its own work to check it. A built-in assistant works with your own key from Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, Groq, Mistral, OpenRouter, or a local Ollama, and exports cover PNG, SVG, PDF, JSON, and animated SVG, GIF, MP4, or WebM you can drop into documentation. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Every homelab outgrows the browser bookmark folder, and Compass answers by building the front page for you, discovering your services automatically instead of asking you to maintain cards by hand. Point it at Docker, Kubernetes, Tailscale, Headscale, NetBird, DNS records, a JSON API, or a plain static list, and it renders everything it finds as a searchable directory with icons, descriptions, and tags filled in from a catalog when a source leaves them blank. Each card shows whether the service is actually up, using the Prometheus or Gatus monitor you already run, and pinned and recent services keep daily tools one click away. Opening a service reveals its connection details, source metadata, extra links such as runbooks and health endpoints, and panels you embed from Grafana. Markdown pages live beside the directory, so architecture notes and on-call runbooks sit in the same navigation, with live service cards and charts embedded directly inside the prose. A debug view shows per-source health, what each source returned, and why a service you expected is missing, while group-based access decides which sources each person can see. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache License 2.0 licensed.

Every service you run, behind one polished start page: Dashy is the most customizable homelab dashboard, built as a Vue.js homepage. Configuration lives in a single YAML file, but you never have to hand-edit it: an integrated UI editor with real-time validation writes changes back to disk, so both config-as-code and point-and-click camps are served. Status indicators put a live health dot next to every app - HTTP checks or pings on custom intervals, with response time and status details on hover - giving you an at-a-glance uptime overview before anything breaks. Over 50 built-in widgets pull dynamic content from the services you already run: Pi-hole and AdGuard block stats, Proxmox lists, Nextcloud status, Netdata CPU/memory history, Prometheus data, plus weather, RSS, crypto prices, and generic iframe/API-response widgets for anything with an endpoint. Instant fuzzy search launches any app as you type, with customizable hotkeys and web-search fallthrough. Theming is deep: dozens of built-in themes, a UI color palette editor, and custom CSS over CSS variables. Alternate views include a fast-loading minimal startpage and a workspace view that embeds apps side-by-side without leaving the dashboard. Icons resolve from Font Awesome, homelab icon packs, emojis, or auto-fetched favicons. Built-in authentication, multi-page support, cloud backup/sync, and multi-language round out an MIT project with a massive community.

A single pane of glass for every service you run, arranged by drag-and-drop with no YAML or JSON files: Homarr is the modern dashboard for self-hosted infrastructure. Its grid system arranges apps, widgets, and bookmarks on desktop or touch, backed by an icon picker with over 11,000 icons. What separates Homarr from static launchers is 50+ live integrations: Plex, Jellyfin, and Emby media stats, the *arr suite (Sonarr, Radarr) with a unified release calendar, download clients, Pi-hole and AdGuard Home controls, Proxmox, Home Assistant, OPNsense, and Unifi monitoring. Widgets update in real time over WebSockets (tRPC and Redis under the hood), and a built-in search queries thousands of data points across connected services. Custom widgets extend the reach to any HTTP API without code: define endpoint, auth, and refresh interval in the management UI, then render responses as stat grids, tables, progress bars, status indicators, action buttons, or full custom JSX layouts - with an AI-prompt helper for generating templates. Multi-user support is first-class: credentials, OIDC, or LDAP sign-on, groups with granular permissions, and secrets encrypted with AES-256-CBC. A robust background-job system scales it from a Raspberry Pi homelab to deployments serving hundreds of users.

When an alert fires at 3 a.m., the live chart, the runbook, and the fix are already on one page of Oxynote, a self-hosted technical wiki. The chart is a Live Metrics block that runs its own Prometheus or SQL query and draws a time series, bar chart, or gauge. Several such blocks side by side make a dashboard inside the page. Around it, the editor works like Notion, with checklists, callouts, titled code blocks, Mermaid diagrams, Figma embeds, images, and files. Internal APIs get Stripe-style reference pages with the endpoint, a curl example, and a sample response beside the explanation. Mark a page reviewable and every edit lands in a draft. A block-aware diff shows renamed endpoints, fields, and reworded sentences in one red and green view until a reviewer approves. Freshness hooks watch GitHub files, container images, web pages, or dates, and remind maintainers when something a page depends on changes. Teammates edit together live and see who holds which block. Comments attach to a word, a diagram line, or a whole chart, with replies and an inbox for mentions. The Rubber Duck assistant edits pages and runs block queries with Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, OpenRouter, or a local Ollama model, and MCP lets Claude Code and Codex read and write the docs. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache-2.0 licensed.