Possible duplicate of Vitals

Thanks to you both, do @the_g_bomb 's comments answer your concersn @tijsdeboeck? Moving to 'Needs Review' for you to check.

Hi @the_g_bomb & @seeduardo, thanks for your reactions!

We used to use drd_agent ourselves, but we wanted to have a more lightweight solution, a the ability to create our own custom dashboards. That's how discovered Vitals.

Have you tested Vitals recently or was that already a while ago? Since version 2.2.0 it uses plugins, which allows you to choose what you want to output, and allows you to easily create custom plugins (that's why we created the vitals_extra module).

The core Vitals module has plugins that can output the CMS version, PHP version, the active default and admin themes, and a list of security and regular updates (I've attached a screenshot of an example json output).

I've tested the dev version site_guardian, and I see that it outputs a lot more data which can be useful, but that could be achieved with a custom plugins for Vitals if you would interested in using Vitals as well.

I'm definitely not saying your module doesn't have a valid use-case, I am just trying to prevent the "yet another module that does almost the same" issue that Drupal suffers from 😆
I think it would be great that more people used and expanded modules like these, as that would create more secure and robust modules.

Btw, I really like the Site notes field in site_guardian! Do you mind that I create a custom plugin for this in our vitals_extra module? 😬

Feel free to close this issue if you want.

@tijsdeboeck take what you like from our module :) and thanks for taking the time to give us some feedback.

As we're looking to create a powerful dashboard that consumes the endpoints, we want to be in control of what we generate. There are other similar projects out there, so we already have a number of duplicates in this area doing similar things.

Hi @dunx, thanks for the follow-up and I totally get your point.