HiveCode owner
Monday check
One page shows the droplet healthy, 42 GB of snapshots costing more than expected, bandwidth at 31% and a resize made on Saturday, with a link to Cost Watch to clean up.
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Cloud Desk
One page for the whole DigitalOcean account: every droplet, volume, snapshot, Spaces bucket, domain and firewall, with month-to-date spend, bandwidth and alerts, so the state of the cloud is clear at a glance without clicking through the control panel.
The problem
The DigitalOcean control panel is good but spread over many pages; answering simple questions such as what is running, what it costs this month and what changed last week takes a dozen clicks, and there is no single view that also shows the HiveCode utilities on the droplet.
Features
- Every resource on one page: droplets with size, region, IP, uptime and tags; volumes, snapshots, Spaces, domains, firewalls and reserved IPs
- Month-to-date spend, the forecast for the month, and bandwidth used against the allowance
- A change feed from the account's action history: who resized, rebooted, snapshotted or deleted what, and when
- Links straight to Server Pulse, Cost Watch, Backup & Restore Drill and the utilities on each droplet
- Read-only by default; actions such as power-cycle or snapshot need a separate write token and a confirmation
How it works
How it works
- DigitalOcean API v2 with a read-only personal access token held on the droplet in the utility's own secrets file
- Results cached in SQLite and refreshed every few minutes, so the page opens instantly and stays within API rate limits
- Sign-in in front of the page, because it shows the whole account
Who it is for
Benefits
- The whole account at a glance
- Spend and bandwidth before the bill
- Who changed what, and when
Built to be trusted
- Read-only token by default; write actions need a second token and a confirmation
- Shows when each figure was last refreshed
- Never stores the account password
Good to know
A read-only Cloud Desk already runs at HiveCode's servers this card turns it into a full utility with the change feed, forecasts and links. It cannot show more than the DigitalOcean API exposes, and bandwidth figures lag by up to a day. It is a convenience view, not a replacement for the control panel.
Under the hood
For technical readers
- DigitalOcean API v2 (droplets, volumes, snapshots, spaces, domains, firewalls, actions, balance, billing history)
- Python or .NET service with a plain HTML dashboard
- SQLite cache
- Runs as an xgapp utility on the droplet: its own folder, container, database and address, built from the Utility Workspace master folder
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