Sharing a Scalelite monitoring tool I built (free tier available)

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Sheldon Cardoza

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Feb 16, 2026, 1:14:33 PM (6 days ago) Feb 16

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Hi everyone,

I have been running BigBlueButton and Scalelite for educational institutions for a while now, and one thing that always frustrated me was the lack of a simple admin interface for Scalelite. Every time I needed to check server status or see active meetings, it meant SSH sessions and running ./bin/rake commands.

So I built something to solve this for myself, and I wanted to share it with the community in case it is useful to others.

What it does:

No more SSH to check server health. A real-time dashboard shows all your BBB servers, their load, and online/offline status at a glance.
See active meetings across your cluster without logging into the command line.
Recording management. View all recordings, published/unpublished status, all in one place.
Alerts when servers go offline or behave unexpectedly, so you are not the last to know.
Works alongside your existing Scalelite setup. It does not replace anything or modify your configuration.

How it works:

You install a small webhook script on your Scalelite server that sends metrics every 5 minutes. No Prometheus, no Grafana, no additional infrastructure to maintain. Setup takes about 5 to 10 minutes. Your data stays between your Scalelite instance and your dashboard. We do not access your meetings or recordings directly.

Pricing:

There is a completely free Starter plan (1 cluster, up to 2 BBB servers). No credit card required, no trial period, it is just free. I wanted to make sure smaller deployments could use it without cost. Paid plans are available for larger deployments if you need them.

Link: https://scalelitemanager.com

I would genuinely appreciate any feedback from the community. If there are features you would find useful that are not there, I would love to hear about them. This was built to scratch my own itch, but I am hoping it can help others too.

Happy to answer any questions about the implementation or how it integrates with Scalelite.