Ember

Judgement

What it is

Developer tool

What it does

A read-only terminal dashboard for Caddy that connects to the admin API and shows per-host traffic, latency percentiles, status codes, TLS certificate expiry, upstream health and live logs. With FrankenPHP it adds per-thread and worker views.

Adopt it when

You run Caddy or FrankenPHP and want a quick live view without setting up Prometheus and Grafana.

Watch out

It only watches Caddy and reads its admin API, so it does not replace long-term metrics storage or alerting.

Ready for

Usable

Runs as

Command line

Built with

Go

How established

Young: started 8 months ago, latest release v1.7.0.

What the license allows

You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.

Judged on 2026-11-06 from the project's README and GitHub data. The license and age lines are worked out directly.

Built from

Follow it down: Ember → Go → runs on a microchip

How compilers were built, back to punched paper tape

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