Episode

Pinboard: A Free, Self-Hosted APM Dashboard That Refused to Die

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Programming Tech Brief By HackerNoon
Published
Jul 22, 2026
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488
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Summary

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/pinboard-a-free-self-hosted-apm-dashboard-that-refused-to-die . A revived open-source stack brings PHP teams application-level performance monitoring without per-host SaaS APM fees. Check more stories related to programming at: https://hackernoon.com/c/programming . You can also check exclusive content about #php , #apm , #self-hosted , #open-source , #monitoring , #symfony , #docker , #mysql , and more. This story was written by: @xolegator . Learn more about this writer by checking @xolegator's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com . Pinba gives you real-time metrics but deliberately forgets everything after 15 minutes. Pinboard is the open-source dashboard that gives it a memory: percentile history per page, slow-request logs, memory and CPU leaderboards, e-mail alerts — on your own servers, for free. First committed in 2013 on a framework that no longer exists, it was rewritten in 2026 on Symfony 8 and PHP 8.4 and now ships as a one-command Docker stack. Here's the story, and the SQL tricks inside.