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IMO it doesn't need updates. It's stable has tons of widgets and works out of the box. Loving it even though I have never touched ruby before.

In combination with graphite I can make some cool statistics and graphs

Yeah, we use Dashing, and very stable/nice/easy to extend. Sad that it's no longer maintained, but pretty good nonetheless.

You now have smashing [0].

"Smashing, the spiritual successor to Dashing, is a Sinatra based framework that lets you build excellent dashboards. It looks especially great on TVs."

0. https://github.com/Smashing/smashing

dashing is a pretty stable product. Its like a simple framework you can customise anything you need in it. We used it in our team to serve alarm metrics till it was deprecated in favour of Grafana.

Grafana is a push model, while Dashing is a pull model.

Grafana is pretty tough on RAM and svg usage. Try to use pngs and the UI is harder to adopt.