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System dashboard
Large CPU / memory / disk / health gauges, an alerts panel that surfaces only live issues, and detail tables for interfaces, disks and logins — refreshing in place.
// Everything the box needs
A full admin toolkit, forged into one page
No sprawling stack to maintain. Anvil covers the daily jobs of running a Linux server — from a glance at the load to killing a runaway process or rolling a firewall rule — behind one login.
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Process manager
Live-searchable process list with click-to-sort columns, colour-coded states, CSV export, and per-row kill/signal from a validated signal set.
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Services & timers
Start, stop, restart, enable and disable systemd units, with timers listed alongside cron showing next/last run and the service they fire.
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Packages
Browse installed packages, see available updates and upgrade across APT, DNF and Pacman — with progress and concurrent-operation locking.
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Docker
Containers, images, networks and volumes. Start, stop, restart and remove containers straight from right-click context menus.
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File manager
Browse the filesystem, edit files in place, upload and download, and create, rename or delete — optionally jailed to a single subtree.
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Web terminal
A full interactive shell in the browser over WebSocket and a real PTY — no SSH client required.
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Firewall & SSH keys
UFW status and rules with presets (SSH, HTTP, HTTPS, rate-limit), plus authorized-key management per user with fingerprints.
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Endpoint monitoring
Watch host and port availability with a 24-hour uptime bar, response-time tracking and background health checks that persist across restarts.
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Logs & audit
Journal and log viewer with unit, priority and text filters — plus a persistent audit log of every action with user, IP and category.
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Backups & alerts
Schedule tar/rsync backups and restore from them, and get threshold alerts by email, webhook, Slack or Discord.
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Command palette
Hit Ctrl+K for fuzzy page-jumping, with toast notifications and confirm modals instead of full reloads.
// Have a look
Clean, dense, and built for real work
// Hardened by default
Security isn't an add-on
Anvil runs as root on your server, so it's built defensively from the login screen inward.
PAM, no password store
Authenticates against real system accounts. Credentials are never written to disk; there's no separate user database to breach.
Locked-down login
Only root and admin groups (sudo/wheel/admin) may sign in. 256-bit session tokens, strict idle and max-age limits.
Brute-force limiting
Five failed attempts per IP triggers a lockout. X-Forwarded-For is only trusted from proxies you name, so it can't be spoofed.
Path-jailed by design
Optional file-manager root confines browsing to one subtree; plugins run argv-only (no shell), path-jailed, and off unless you enable them.
Built-in TLS
Turn on HTTPS with an auto-generated self-signed cert or bring your own key pair. Secure cookies flip on automatically with TLS.
Audited & scriptable
Every action is logged with user, IP and category. Hashed API keys authenticate /api/* for automation — created only from a real session.
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Install it
Debian / Ubuntu
# grab the .deb from Releases, then
sudo apt install ./anvil_<version>_amd64.debFedora / RHEL / openSUSE
sudo dnf install ./anvil-<version>.x86_64.rpmArch (AUR)
yay -S anvil-panelRun it
# default port 9006; TLS optional
sudo systemctl enable --now anvil
# → https://your-server:9006
Packages install the systemd unit and a config at /etc/anvil/anvil.env.
Requires Linux and libpam. Full guide in the
README.