#7738·headlamp

Add capability to create Views/custom dashboards

Author: pacorreiaCreated Sep 22, 2026Updated Sep 22, 2026
Labelskind/feature

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe the impact that the lack of the feature requested is creating.

On a cluster with plenty of workloads it's easy to start having several tabs open or windows minimised when looking at logs, metrics, events, etc.

HAving th cnce to create one or more views/dashboards with the resources, metrics, logs that relate to each other means a great win in terms of visibility, troubleshooting, or even having a dashboard on full screen built easilly on headlamp (yep grafana can also do it but requires more configuration)

Describe the solution you'd like

I would like an area on the navigation panel called "Views" or "Dashboards" where I can create one or more views and add resource windows, metrics, logs.

also from within a pod view, repliaset, metrics, have a button to add it to an existing or new view.

What users will benefit from this feature?

This can be fit any kind of deployment, and would benefit both Developers and platform engineers. Developers could setup a view for their workloads deployed and easilly be able to follow up key metrics and logs visually before digging deep into further analysis and prevent jumping from tool to tool

Are you able to implement this feature?

Maybe, I tried with a bit of help with AI, and was able to get a first version of it, but quickly noticed an architectural gap.

The plugins eco system, the views would be at core of headlamp but seem it does need to know beforehand the types of components in terms of UI he can add and hot handle them.

For example the prometheus graphics charts, are provided by the prometheus plugin and I could not find an easy way to make views get such components.

That means, the plugin is defining it's own data sources and visualisation, and the remaining of Headlamp is just aware of that. And looks like it's by design, plugins add on top of what already exists.

Possible MOC:

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Additional context

Source: kubernetes-sigs/headlamp