Open Source · Self-Hosted · Django Native

The control room for your Django app

Inspect, debug, and operate your Django app from one place, directly inside the admin. No third-party dashboards. No signups.

Explore Features Get Started

pip install dj-control-room

The Suite

A control room, not another dashboard

A growing collection of Django admin panels that bring operational visibility to your stack without leaving your admin.

Django Admin · Control Room

Django administrationWelcome, admin.

Home › DJ Control Room

Authentication and Authorization

Groups

Users

DJ Control Room

Dashboard

Redis

Cache

Celery

URLs

Signals

Errors

Control Room

Select a panel to view monitoring tools.

Installed Panels

● CONNECTED

Redis Panel

Monitor connections, memory, keys, and throughput.

View panel →

● HEALTHY

Cache Panel

Inspect cached entries, hit/miss ratios.

View panel →

● CONNECTED

Celery Panel

Track workers, monitor task queues.

View panel →

● HEALTHY

URLs Panel

Browse registered URL patterns.

View panel →

● CONNECTED

Signals Panel

Inspect connected signal receivers.

View panel →

● HEALTHY

Errors Panel

Track recent exceptions, tracebacks.

View panel →

More panels coming soon

New panels are being built to extend your control room.

Admin-native observability

Every panel lives inside your Django admin. No new dashboards to learn, just the interface your team already knows.

Modular by design

Install only what you need. Each panel is an independent Django app with zero cross-dependencies.

Real-time monitoring

Live stats, auto-refreshing views, and instant feedback on your infrastructure health. Straight from the admin.

Self-hosted & private

Your data never leaves your servers. Full control over retention, access, and compliance requirements.

Zero-config setup

pip install, add to INSTALLED_APPS, done. No agents, sidecars, or external services to configure.

Django permissions built-in

Leverage Django's auth system. Control who sees what using the groups and permissions you already manage.

Built for production. Not just development.

Django Control Room runs inside the Django admin and relies entirely on Django's own authentication and permission system. There is no DEBUG=True requirement. A built-in granular permission system lets you control exactly which users and groups can access each panel, so you can deploy with confidence and operate your app every day.

Get Started

Up and running in minutes

Install Django Control Room to get all of the tools at once, or install them separately if you prefer.

Install the package

Install Control Room and specify any panels you want.

pip install dj-control-room[redis,celery]  # or simply use [all]

Add to INSTALLED_APPS

Drop it into your Django settings like any other app.

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    # ...
    "dj_control_room_base",
    "dj_celery_panel",
    "dj_redis_panel",
    "dj_control_room",  # place control room after any panels
]

Include the URLs

urlpatterns = [
    path("admin/dj-control-room-base/", include("dj_control_room_base.urls")),  # for base
    path("admin/dj-redis-panel/", include("dj_redis_panel.urls")),  # for redis panel
    path("admin/dj-celery-panel/", include("dj_celery_panel.urls")),  # for celery panel
    path("admin/dj-control-room/", include("dj_control_room.urls")),  # for the control room
    path("admin/", admin.site.urls),
]

Open the admin and explore

Head to your Django admin. The Control Room is ready.

Django administrationWelcome, admin.

Home › DJ Control Room

Authentication and Authorization

Groups

Users

DJ Control Room

Dashboard

Redis

Cache

Celery

URLs

Signals

Errors

Control Room

Select a panel to view monitoring tools.

Installed Panels

● CONNECTED

Redis Panel

Monitor connections, memory, keys, and throughput.

View panel →

● HEALTHY

Cache Panel

Inspect cached entries, hit/miss ratios.

View panel →

● CONNECTED

Celery Panel

Track workers, monitor task queues.

View panel →

● HEALTHY

URLs Panel

Browse registered URL patterns.

View panel →

● CONNECTED

Signals Panel

Inspect connected signal receivers.

View panel →

● HEALTHY

Errors Panel

Track recent exceptions, tracebacks.

View panel →

More panels coming soon

New panels are being built to extend your control room.

Each panel provides its own configuration options. See individual panel information →

The Panels

Meet the panels

Each project is a standalone Django app. Install one or all. They work independently.

pip install dj-redis-panel

dj-redis-panel

Redis monitoring, inside your admin

Get full visibility into your Redis instances without leaving Django. Inspect keys, monitor memory usage, view real-time stats, and debug connection issues, all from a familiar interface.

Live key browser with search and filtering
Memory and connection stats at a glance
Per-database breakdown and slow log viewer
Works with Redis, Redis Cluster, and Sentinel

Learn more GitHub

Django Admin · dj-redis-panel

Memory Used

48.2 MB

Connected Clients

Hit Rate

94.7%

Uptime

14d 6h

Key Browser

Search keys…

Key	Type	TTL	Size
session:user_4821	STRING	1800s	2.1 KB
cache:product_list	HASH	3600s	14.8 KB
queue:email_jobs	LIST	∞	892 B
rate:api_10.0.1.5	STRING	60s	48 B
lock:payment_proc	STRING	30s	64 B

pip install dj-cache-panel

dj-cache-panel

Cache visibility, zero guesswork

Understand exactly what's happening in your cache layer. Visualize hit rates, inspect stored keys, and debug invalidation issues so you can stop guessing and start optimizing.

Cache hit/miss ratio tracking over time
Key inspection with TTL and size details
Backend-agnostic: Memcached, Redis, file, and more
Invalidation debugging and bulk operations

Learn more GitHub

Django Admin · dj-cache-panel

Hit / Miss Ratio

Hits Misses

Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Fri

Sat

Sun

Cached Entries

Key	Backend	TTL	Hits	Status
views.homepage	Redis	300s	1,284	active
views.product_42	Redis	600s	847	active
api.user_prefs	Memcached	120s	2,103	active
template.nav_frag	File	3600s	432	stale

pip install dj-celery-panel

dj-celery-panel

Task queues, tamed

Monitor your Celery workers, queues, and tasks from Django admin. See what's running, what's failed, and what's stuck without deploying Flower or a separate monitoring stack.

Real-time worker and queue status overview
Task history with failure details and retries
Queue depth and throughput metrics
Revoke, retry, and inspect tasks from the admin

Learn more GitHub

Django Admin · dj-celery-panel

worker-1

142 tasksCPU 23%

worker-2

89 tasksCPU 18%

worker-3

231 tasksCPU 67%

Queue DepthLast 60 min

Recent Tasks

Task	Status	Duration	When
send_welcome_email	success	0.4s	2m ago
process_payment	success	1.2s	4m ago
generate_report	running	—	now
sync_inventory	failed	8.1s	6m ago
resize_image	retry	—	7m ago

pip install dj-urls-panel

dj-urls-panel

Your URL map, at a glance

Browse every registered URL pattern, namespace, and view in your Django project. Search, filter, and reverse-lookup routes without touching the terminal.

Full URL pattern tree with namespace grouping
Reverse lookup and search across all routes
View function and class details for each endpoint
Test and validate URL resolution directly from the admin

Learn more GitHub

Django Admin · dj-urls-panel

:api-v1

14 routes

:admin

38 routes

:auth

5 routes

:catalog

9 routes

URL Patterns

Search routes…

Pattern	Name	View	Methods
/	home	views.HomeView	GET
/api/v1/users/	user-list	api.views.UserViewSet	GET, POST
/api/v1/users/<id>/	user-detail	api.views.UserViewSet	GET, PUT, DELETE
/admin/	admin:index	admin.site.index	GET
/auth/login/	login	auth.views.LoginView	GET, POST
/products/<slug>/	product-detail	catalog.views.ProductDetail	GET

pip install dj-signals-panel

dj-signals-panel

Your signal landscape, fully mapped

Get full visibility into your project's signal landscape. See which signals are registered, which receivers are connected, and what that receiver code actually does.

Complete overview of all registered signals
Receiver mapping with source module details
Built in vs custom signal breakdown
Inspect receiver code directly from the admin

Learn more GitHub

Django Admin · dj-signals-panel

Signals

Receivers

Built-in

Custom

Signal Connections

Filter signals…

Signal	Sender	Receiver	Module
post_save	auth.User	profiles.create_profile	profiles.signals
post_save	orders.Order	notifications.send_order_email	notifications.signals
pre_delete	catalog.Product	catalog.clear_product_cache	catalog.signals
post_save	payments.Payment	ledger.record_transaction	ledger.signals
request_finished	None	analytics.flush_buffer	analytics.signals
user_logged_in	auth.User	audit.log_login	audit.signals

More panels on the way

We're building more tools to bring full observability to your Django admin. Star us on GitHub to stay in the loop.

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Build your own panel

Django Control Room is built to be extended. Use our cookiecutter template to scaffold a fully structured panel plugin in seconds — with all the conventions already in place.

Read the guide Cookiecutter

Philosophy

Why self-host?

Keep your stack simple and your data close.

Your infrastructure, your data

Everything runs on your servers. No data leaves your network. Full control over retention and access.

Zero vendor costs

Stop paying per-seat or per-event fees. Open source means free forever — no surprise invoices.

No more signup fatigue

One Django admin login. No new accounts, API keys, or third-party dashboards to juggle.

Native Django integration

Built on Django's admin framework. Uses your existing models, permissions, and authentication.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Everything you need to know about Django Control Room.

Support the project

Django Control Room is open source and free to use. If it saves you time in production, consider supporting its ongoing development.

Sponsor on GitHub

Built by a Django practitioner

Django Control Room is built and maintained by Yasser Toruno, a software engineer focused on building admin-native tools for production Django systems.

Open source from day one. Contributions, bug reports, and feature requests are always welcome.

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The control room for your Django app

A control room, not another dashboard

Admin-native observability

Modular by design

Real-time monitoring

Self-hosted & private

Zero-config setup

Django permissions built-in

Built for production. Not just development.

Up and running in minutes

Install the package

Add to INSTALLED_APPS

Include the URLs

Open the admin and explore

Meet the panels

dj-redis-panel

dj-cache-panel

dj-celery-panel

dj-urls-panel

dj-signals-panel

More panels on the way

Build your own panel

Why self-host?

Your infrastructure, your data

Zero vendor costs

No more signup fatigue

Native Django integration

Frequently asked questions

What is Django Control Room?

Is it free to use?

Do I need to install every panel?

Does it work with my existing Django project?

Can I build my own panels?

Is it safe to use in production?

How do I get support?

Support the project

Built by a Django practitioner

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