Any plans for a WEB GUI ?

[shahidcodes]

Using blocky and really enjoying it. I was previously using PiHole which has a nice UI to inspect what's going to and stuffs. Just wanted to ask if there is any plan for any GUI?

[0xERR0R]

Hey,

no, currently not. There is a Grafana dashboard for prometheus metrics, which shows some internal metrics and allows to enable/disable the blocking state.

I'm also currently working on (#258). This will allow to create another Grafana dashboard with detailed statistics about asked queries (e.g. top 20 asked domains, Top 20 blocked domains, last queries etc).

I'm trying to follow the KISS principle and implement only core features (basically DNS features) and provide integration for other tools (REST api, prometheus integration).

[shahidcodes]

That's great. If there's a way to communicate to blocky through api to fetch and manage things like upstream dns, clients, customDNS, client groups, block lists and so on then I think it'll be easier for me or anyone else to write a frontend.

At least for now I'm waiting for the WIP: logging query to database so that at least I can fetch the data from the database and see.

[0xERR0R]

No, currently, you can only control the blocking (enable, disable), trigger the list refresh and perform a DNS query.

Here is the current REST API description: https://0xerr0r.github.io/blocky/swagger.html

[Mozart409]

Should I create a new frontend?

[Mozart409]

Thank you. Any things I should change or add? Yes I can keep it there and you can link it. Are you planning to expand the REST API?

[0xERR0R]

If you need a new REST endpoint -> please feel free to create an issue.

Maybe following things as idea:

• add a screenshot to the readme
• use multi-arch docker build to support arm6/7 etc. -> this would allow to use the web client on Raspberry pi and routers
• button to disable blocking for 5 min
• dark mode ;)

[Mozart409]

@0xERR0R Hi, can you teach me how to create multi-arch docker images?

[kwitsch]

The build-and-push action you aleady use supports this feature as it uses buildx internally.
Simply add the platformes you like to bundle together in the with section.

[Mozart409]

@kwitsch thank you very much.