One container next to your stack. Queues, jobs, failures, progress, logs, flows and Pro groups, behind a real login. No KEYS, one round trip per screen, payloads truncated inside Redis before they travel.
# 1. run it next to the Redis your workers already use docker run -d --name bullpane -p 3000:3000 \ -e SESSION_SECRET=$(openssl rand -base64 32) \ -e DATABASE_URL=mysql://user:pass@mysql:3306/bullpane \ ghcr.io/madmorett/bullpane:latest # 2. open http://localhost:3000, create the admin, add a Redis connection # 3. that's the whole install. Pro is a key you paste in Settings → License. ✓ works with Redis, Redis Cluster, Valkey · BullMQ 4/5 and BullMQ Pro
Built by Matheus Morett, CTO at Monest · 100M+ BullMQ jobs a day in production. Every feature here shipped because we needed it first. @Morett_the_best
bull-board is free but has no login. Taskforce.sh is the hosted dashboard from the BullMQ authors: polished, but your job data leaves your network and you pay per connection. Bullpane is the third option: self-hosted, safe on production, priced per installation.
| bull-boardopen source | Taskforce.shhosted SaaS | Bullpaneself-hosted | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Job data stays in your network | ✓ | –payloads go to their cloud | ✓ |
| Login | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users & roles | – | ✓ | Pro |
| Search inside job data | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| BullMQ Pro groups & batches | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Alerts to Slack / webhook | – | ✓ | Pro |
| Audit log in your own database | – | –lives in their account | Pro |
| Flow graph | – | ✓ | Pro |
| Price | Free | Monthly, per connection | Free · Pro $19/mo per installation |
The free edition is not a trial. It does everything the open-source dashboards do, on unlimited connections and queues, and it is built for the Redis that runs your business.
Waiting, active, delayed, prioritized, completed, failed, paused. Per-minute completed/failed rates. Attention view surfaces the queues that need you.
Data, options, progress, logs, stack traces, parent/child links. Search inside job data. Add, retry, promote, remove, discard, in bulk if you like.
Pause, resume, clean, retry-all, drain and obliterate. The destructive ones need the admin role and are recorded.
Groups, batches and group-level concurrency are first-class. Job schedulers are listed and removable.
No KEYS. Discovery via SCAN, cached. One Lua round trip per queue, payloads truncated inside Redis. Cluster-safe.
Admin account with sessions. BULLPANE_READ_ONLY=true refuses every write while you point it at production for the first time.
One key unlocks everything below for one installation, unlimited users. The key is verified with bullpane.com once a day and keeps working for seven days without internet.
Per queue or per folder: waiting depth, failures, failure rate over a window. Delivered to Slack or any webhook, with a link straight to the queue.
Admin, operator and viewer. Viewers see everything and change nothing; operators run the queues; only admins drain, obliterate or manage access.
Group hundreds of queues across connections by team, product or environment. Totals and alerts per folder.
Detected from your BullMQ flows, plus manual edges for the hops your code does by hand. See where a failure upstream will land.
Who paused, cleaned or drained which queue, when, from which IP, including refused attempts. Persisted in your database, filterable, CSV export. Never stores job payloads.
Email answered by the person who wrote the code, and a say in what gets built next.
Per installation, not per connection, not per seat. Taxes and invoices are handled by Polar, our merchant of record, in your currency.
You get a key on the receipt. Paste it in Settings → License. The server activates it once against bullpane.com and re-checks it daily. One key runs one installation; to move servers, remove the key on the old one (or from your customer portal) and paste it on the new one.
After a successful check the installation keeps Pro for seven days without any contact, and shows a "grace period" badge so you know. Air-gapped for real? Write to hello@bullpane.com for an offline key that never phones home.
No. The only thing the server ever sends to bullpane.com is the license key, a label for the installation (hostname) and the activation id. Job data, Redis URLs and queue names stay with you. The free edition sends nothing at all.
Yes. Groups, batches and group concurrency are shown in both editions. Bullpane reads the same Redis keys your workers use; it does not bundle or redistribute BullMQ Pro.
That was the design constraint. No KEYS, no unbounded scans, one Lua round trip per queue, payloads truncated inside Redis, discovery cached. Start with BULLPANE_READ_ONLY=true if you want to watch before you trust it.
The installation goes back to the free edition. Alerts, folders, users and the audit log stay in your database and become accessible again the moment a key is activated.
MySQL 8 (or MariaDB) for users, sessions, alerts and the audit log. Redis is only ever read, and written through the official BullMQ API for job actions.