Django Control Room – All Your Tools Inside the Django Admin
Over the past year I’ve been building a set of operational panels for Django: - Redis inspection - cache visibility - Celery task introspection - URL discovery and testing All of these tools have been built inside the Django admin. Instead of jumping between tools like Flower, redis-cli, Swagger, or external services, I wanted something that sits where I’m already working. I’ve grouped these under a single umbrella: Django Control Room. The idea is pretty simple: the Django admin already gives you authentication, permissions, and a familiar interface. It can also act as an operational layer…
Django Control Room – All Your Tools Inside the Django Admin launched on February 25, 2026 with 134 votes, #229 of 16,627 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.
In plain words
Django Control Room is a set of operational panels built into the Django admin interface, including Redis inspection, cache visibility, Celery task monitoring, and URL discovery tools. Designed for Django developers, it consolidates debugging and inspection capabilities that normally require separate tools like Flower, redis-cli, and external services. By leveraging Django admin's existing authentication and permissions, it provides a unified workspace for operational tasks without leaving the admin interface.
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From the sources
The control room for your Django app. Contribute to django-control-room/dj-control-room development by creating an account on GitHub.
A framework for building Django admin tools and a growing suite of operational panels for your project. Django Control Room is a plugin framework for building Django admin tools (called "panels"), and a suite of official panels for services like Redis, Celery, and caches, plus Django internals like URLs and Signals. Every panel, official or third-party, is a small independent Python package built on the public plugin API in dj-control-room-base . Install dj-control-room and it discovers compatible panels via Python entry points, renders them in a centralized dashboard, and gives them a shared design system, permissions model, and admin sidebar integration. INSTALLED_APPS = [ # ...…from github.com
In the maker’s words, at launch
Over the past year I’ve been building a set of operational panels for Django: - Redis inspection - cache visibility - Celery task introspection - URL discovery and testing All of these tools have been built inside the Django admin. Instead of jumping between tools like Flower, redis-cli, Swagger, or external…
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