The control room for your Django app
Inspect, debug, and operate your Django app from one place, directly inside the admin.
pip install dj-control-roomThe Platform
A control room, not another dashboard
Django Control Room is a framework and ecosystem for building operational tools for Django, with interfaces for both developers and AI agents.
Authentication and Authorization
DJ Control Room
Select a panel to view monitoring tools.
Installed Panels
Redis Panel
Monitor connections, memory, keys, and throughput.
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Cache Panel
Inspect cached entries, hit/miss ratios.
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Celery Panel
Track workers, monitor task queues.
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URLs Panel
Browse registered URL patterns.
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Signals Panel
Inspect connected signal receivers.
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Errors Panel
Track recent exceptions, tracebacks.
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More panels coming soon
New panels are being built to extend your control room.
Panel ecosystem
Install standalone panels for common Django infrastructure and application behavior, including Celery, Redis, caching, URLs, and signals.
Extensible framework
Build reusable panels or operational tools specific to your application on DCR’s shared foundation.
Human and agent interfaces
Serve developers through Django admin and expose selected capabilities to AI agents through MCP.
The Panels
Meet the panels
Each project is a standalone Django app. Install one or all. They work independently.
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 metrics
- Works with Redis, Redis Cluster, and Sentinel
Memory Used
48.2 MB
Connected Clients
12
Hit Rate
94.7%
Uptime
14d 6h
| 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 |
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
| 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 |
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
| 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 |
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
:api-v1
14 routes
:admin
38 routes
:auth
5 routes
:catalog
9 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 |
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
Signals
12
Receivers
23
Built-in
6
Custom
6
| 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.
Star on GitHubBuild 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.
Philosophy
Why the Django admin?
The Django admin is a natural starting point for operational tooling: close to the application, built on its access controls, and already familiar to the teams operating it.
Close to the application
Work directly with Django's configuration, URLs, signals, caches, queues, models, and runtime behavior.
Built on the existing trust model
Govern operational access through the authentication, groups, and permissions your application already uses.
Familiar to Django teams
Give developers operational tools within an interface they already understand.
More than one interface
Make DCR capabilities available through admin-native panels and to AI agents through MCP.
Community tutorials
See Django Control Room in action
Independent Django creators walk through installation, explore the panel ecosystem, and demonstrate what you can build inside Django admin.
Prefer written guides?
Follow step-by-step guides to install Django Control Room, build custom panels, and configure access.
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
Register the control room route before your admin 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.
Authentication and Authorization
DJ Control Room
Select a panel to view monitoring tools.
Installed Panels
Redis Panel
Monitor connections, memory, keys, and throughput.
View panel →
Cache Panel
Inspect cached entries, hit/miss ratios.
View panel →
Celery Panel
Track workers, monitor task queues.
View panel →
URLs Panel
Browse registered URL patterns.
View panel →
Signals Panel
Inspect connected signal receivers.
View panel →
Errors Panel
Track recent exceptions, tracebacks.
View panel →
More panels coming soon
New panels are being built to extend your control room.
Prefer a video? Watch Cloud With Django set it up or browse more walkthroughs.
Each panel provides its own configuration options. See individual panel information →
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Everything you need to know about Django Control Room.
Built for Django teams
Django Control Room is an extensible platform for production Django tooling, created and maintained by Yasser Toruño. It continues to grow through feedback, contributions, and ideas from the Django community.
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