WGDashboard/README.md

WGDashboard

Monitoring WireGuard is not convenient, need to remote access to server and type wg show. That's why this project is being created, to view all configurations and manage them in a easy way.

With all these awesome features, while keeping it simple, easy to install and use

This project is not affiliate to the official WireGuard Project

📣 What's New: v4.0

Tip

📹 Demo video on YouTube

🎉 New Features

• Updated dashboard design: Re-designed some of the section with more modern style and layout, the UI is faster and more responsive, it also uses less memory. But overall is still the same dashboard you're familiarized.
• Docker Solution: We now have 2 docker solutions! Thanks to @DaanSelen & @shuricksumy for providing them. For more information, please see the Docker section below.
• Peer Job Scheduler: Now you can schedule jobs for each peer to either restrict or delete the peer if the peer's total / upload / download data usage exceeded a limit, or you can set a specific datetime to restrict or delete the peer.
• Share Peer's QR Code with Public Link: You can share a peer's QR code and .conf file without the need to loging in.
• WGDashboard's REST API: You can now request all the api endpoint used in the dashboard. For more details please review the API Documentation.
• Logging: Dashboard will now log all activity on the dashboard and API requests.
• Time-Based One-Time Password (TOTP): You can enable this function to add one more layer of security, and generate the TOTP with your choice of authenticator.
• Designs
  • Real-time Graphs: You can view real-time data changes with graphs in each configuration.
  • Night mode: You know what that means, it avoids bugs ;)
• Enforce Python Virtual Environment: I noticed newer Python version (3.12) does not allow to install packages globally, and plus I think is a good idea to use venv.

🧐 Other Changes

• Deprecated jQuery from the project, and migrated and rewrote the whole front-end with Vue.js. This allows the dashboard is future proofed, and potential cross server access with a desktop app.
• Rewrote the backend into a REST API structure
• Improved SQL query efficient
• Removed all templates, except for index.html where it will load the Vue.js app.
• Parsing names in .conf
• Minimized the need to read .conf, only when any .conf is modified

🥘 New Experimental Features

• Cross-Server Access: Now you can access other servers that installed v4 of WGDashboard through API key.
• Desktop App: Thanks to Cross-Server Access, you can now download an ElectronJS based desktop app of WGDashboard, and use that to access WGDashboard on different servers.

• For more information, please scroll down to 🥘 Experimental Functions

I can't thank enough for all of you who wait for this release, and for those who are new to this project, welcome :) Also, huge thanks to who contributed to this major release: @bolgovrussia, @eduardorosabales, @Profik, @airgapper, @tokon2000, @bkeenke, @kontorskiy777, @bugsse, @Johnnykson, @DaanSelen, @shuricksumy and many others!

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📋 Table of Content

• 📣 What's New: v4.0
  • 🎉 New Features
  • 🧐 Other Changes
  • 🥘 New Experimental Features
• 📋 Table of Content
• 💡 Features
• 📝 Requirements
  • Supported Operating Systems
  • Existing WireGuard Configurations
• 🛠 Install
  • Install Commands
    • Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
    • Ubuntu 22.04 LTS & Ubuntu 24.02 LTS
    • Debian 12.6
    • Debian 11.10
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 & CentOS 9-Stream
    • Fedora 40 & Fedora 39 & Fedora 38
    • Alpine Linux 3.20.2
  • Manual Installation
• 🪜 Usage
  • Start/Stop/Restart WGDashboard
  • Autostart WGDashboard on boot (>= v2.2)
• ✂️ Dashboard Configuration
  • Dashboard Configuration file
  • Generating QR code and peer configuration file (.conf)
• ❓ How to update the dashboard?
  • Please note for users who are using v3 - v3.0.6 want to update to v4.0
  • Please note for users who are using v2.3.1 or below
• 🐬 Docker Solutions
  • Solution 1 from @DaanSelen
  • Solution 2 from @shuricksumy
• 📖 WGDashboard REST API Documentation & How to use API Key
• 🥘 Experimental Features
  • Cross-Server Access
  • Desktop App
• 🔍 Screenshot
• 🕰️ Changelogs

💡 Features

• Automatically look for existing WireGuard configuration under /etc/wireguard
• Easy to use interface, provided credential and TOTP protection to the dashboard
• Manage peers and configuration
  • Add Peers or by bulk with auto-generated information
  • Edit peer information
  • Delete peers with ease
  • Restrict peers
  • Generate QR Code and .conf file for peers, share it through a public link
  • Schedule jobs to delete / restrict peer when conditions are met
• View real time peer status
• Testing tool: Ping and Traceroute to your peer

📝 Requirements

1. Supported operating systems. Please view the list below.
2. WireGuard & WireGuard-Tools (wg-quick)
3. Python 3.10 / 3.11 / 3.12
4. git, net-tools, sudo (This should only apply to RHEL 9 & 8, interestingly it doesn't have it preinstalled)

Supported Operating Systems

Note

All operating systems below are tested by myself. All are ARM64 ran in UTM Virtual Machine.

Ubuntu	Debian	Red Hat Enterprise Linux	CentOS	Fedora	Alpine Linux
20.04 LTS	12.6	9.4	9-Stream	40	3.20.2 (Under Testing)
22.04 LTS	11.10			39
24.02 LTS				38

Tip

If you installed WGDashboard on other systems without any issues, please let me know. Thank you!

Existing WireGuard Configurations

Note

This only applies to existing WireGuard Configuration under /etc/wireguard

[Interface]
...
SaveConfig = true
# Need to include this line to allow WireGuard Tool to save your configuration, 
# or if you just want it to monitor your WireGuard Interface and don't need to
# make any changes with the dashboard, you can set it to false.

[Peer]
#Name# = Donald's iPhone
PublicKey = abcd1234
AllowedIPs = 1.2.3.4/32

Tip

With v4, WGDashboard will look for entry with #Name# = abc... in each peer and use that for the name.

🛠 Install

Install Commands

These commands are tested by myself in each OS. It contains commands to install WireGuard, Git, Net Tools, and even Python on some OS.

Warning

Please make sure you understand these commands before you run them.

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:deadsnakes/ppa -y && \
sudo apt-get update -y && \
sudo apt-get install python3.10 python3.10-distutils wireguard-tools net-tools --no-install-recommends -y && \
git clone https://github.com/donaldzou/WGDashboard.git && \
cd WGDashboard/src && \
chmod +x ./wgd.sh && \
./wgd.sh install && \
sudo echo "net.ipv4.ip_forward=1" >> /etc/sysctl.conf && \
sudo sysctl -p

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS & Ubuntu 24.02 LTS

sudo apt-get update -y && \
sudo apt install wireguard-tools net-tools --no-install-recommends -y && \
git clone https://github.com/donaldzou/WGDashboard.git && \
cd ./WGDashboard/src && \
chmod +x ./wgd.sh && \
./wgd.sh install && \
sudo echo "net.ipv4.ip_forward=1" >> /etc/sysctl.conf && \
sudo sysctl -p /etc/sysctl.conf

Debian 12.6

apt-get install sudo git iptables -y && \ 
sudo apt-get update && \
sudo apt install wireguard-tools net-tools && \
git clone https://github.com/donaldzou/WGDashboard.git && \
cd ./WGDashboard/src && \
chmod +x ./wgd.sh && \
./wgd.sh install && \
sudo echo "net.ipv4.ip_forward=1" >> /etc/sysctl.conf && \
sudo sysctl -p /etc/sysctl.conf

Debian 11.10

Warning

This commands will download Python 3.10's source code and build from it, since Debian 11.10 doesn't comes with Python 3.10

apt-get install sudo -y && \ 
sudo apt-get update && \ 
sudo apt install -y git iptables build-essential zlib1g-dev libncurses5-dev libgdbm-dev libnss3-dev libssl-dev libreadline-dev libffi-dev libsqlite3-dev wget libbz2-dev wireguard-tools net-tools && \ 
wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.10.0/Python-3.10.0.tgz && \ 
tar -xvf Python-3.10.0.tgz && \ 
cd Python-3.10.0 && \ 
sudo ./configure --enable-optimizations && \ 
sudo make && \ 
sudo make altinstall && \ 
cd .. && \ 
git clone https://github.com/donaldzou/WGDashboard.git && \ 
cd ./WGDashboard/src && \ 
chmod +x ./wgd.sh && \ 
./wgd.sh install && \ 
sudo echo "net.ipv4.ip_forward=1" >> /etc/sysctl.conf && \
sudo sysctl -p /etc/sysctl.conf

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 & CentOS 9-Stream

sudo yum install wireguard-tools net-tools git python3.11 -y && \
git clone https://github.com/donaldzou/WGDashboard.git && \
cd ./WGDashboard/src && \
chmod +x ./wgd.sh && \
./wgd.sh install && \
sudo echo "net.ipv4.ip_forward=1" >> /etc/sysctl.conf && \
sudo sysctl -p /etc/sysctl.conf && \
firewall-cmd --add-port=10086/tcp --permanent && \
firewall-cmd --add-port=51820/udp --permanent && \
firewall-cmd --reload

Fedora 40 & Fedora 39 & Fedora 38

sudo yum install wireguard-tools net-tools git -y && \
git clone https://github.com/donaldzou/WGDashboard.git && \
cd ./WGDashboard/src && \
chmod +x ./wgd.sh && \
./wgd.sh install && \
sudo echo "net.ipv4.ip_forward=1" >> /etc/sysctl.conf && \
sudo sysctl -p /etc/sysctl.conf && \
firewall-cmd --add-port=10086/tcp --permanent && \
firewall-cmd --add-port=51820/udp --permanent && \
firewall-cmd --reload

Alpine Linux 3.20.2

setup-interfaces -a ; \
rc-service networking --quiet start ; \
printf "https://mirrors.aliyun.com/alpine/latest-stable/main\nhttps://mirrors.aliyun.com/alpine/latest-stable/community" > /etc/apk/repositories ; \
apk update ; \
apk add wireguard-tools python3 python3-dev git iptables net-tools gcc musl-dev linux-headers sudo ; \
git clone -b v4.0-alpine-linux https://github.com/donaldzou/WGDashboard.git ; \
cd ./WGDashboard/src ; \
chmod +x ./wgd.sh ; \
./wgd.sh install

Manual Installation

Note

To ensure a smooth installation process, please make sure Python 3.10/3.11/3.12, git, wireguard-tools and net-tools are installed :)

1. Download WGDashboard

   git clone https://github.com/donaldzou/WGDashboard.git wgdashboard
   
   

2. Open the WGDashboard folder

   cd wgdashboard/src
   

3. Install WGDashboard

   sudo chmod u+x wgd.sh && \
   sudo ./wgd.sh install
   

4. Give read and execute permission to root of the WireGuard configuration folder, you can change the path if your configuration files are not stored in /etc/wireguard

   sudo chmod -R 755 /etc/wireguard
   

5. Run WGDashboard

   sudo ./wgd.sh start
   

6. Access dashboard

   Access your server with port 10086 (e.g. http://your_server_ip:10086), using username admin and password admin. See below how to change port and ip that the dashboard is running with.

🪜 Usage

Start/Stop/Restart WGDashboard

cd wgdashboard/src
-----------------------------
./wgd.sh start    # Start the dashboard in background
-----------------------------
./wgd.sh debug    # Start the dashboard in foreground (debug mode)
-----------------------------
./wgd.sh stop     # Stop the dashboard
-----------------------------
./wgd.sh restart  # Restart the dasboard

Autostart WGDashboard on boot (>= v2.2)

In the src folder, it contained a file called wg-dashboard.service, we can use this file to let our system to autostart the dashboard after reboot. The following guide has tested on Ubuntu, most Debian based OS might be the same, but some might not. Please don't hesitate to provide your system if you have tested the autostart on another system.

1. Changing the directory to the dashboard's directory

   cd wgdashboard/src
   

2. Get the full path of the dashboard's directory

   pwd
   #Output: /root/wgdashboard/src
   

   For this example, the output is /root/wireguard-dashboard/src, your path might be different since it depends on where you downloaded the dashboard in the first place. Copy the the output to somewhere, we will need this in the next step.

3. Edit the service file, the service file is located in wireguard-dashboard/src, you can use other editor you like, here will be using nano

   nano wg-dashboard.service
   

   You will see something like this:

   [Unit]
   After=syslog.target network-online.target
   Wants=wg-quick.target
   ConditionPathIsDirectory=/etc/wireguard
   
   [Service]
   Type=forking
   PIDFile=<absolute_path_of_wgdashboard_src>/gunicorn.pid
   WorkingDirectory=<absolute_path_of_wgdashboard_src>
   ExecStart=<absolute_path_of_wgdashboard_src>/wgd.sh start
   ExecStop=<absolute_path_of_wgdashboard_src>/wgd.sh stop
   ExecReload=<absolute_path_of_wgdashboard_src>/wgd.sh restart
   TimeoutSec=120
   PrivateTmp=yes
   Restart=always
   
   [Install]
   WantedBy=multi-user.target
   

   Now, we need to replace all <absolute_path_of_wgdashboard_src> to the one you just copied from step 2. After doing this, the file will become something like this, your file might be different:

   Be aware that after the value of WorkingDirectory, it does not have a / (slash). And then save the file after you edited it

4. Copy the service file to systemd folder

   $ sudo cp wg-dashboard.service /etc/systemd/system/wg-dashboard.service
   

   To make sure you copy the file successfully, you can use this command cat /etc/systemd/system/wg-dashboard.service to see if it will output the file you just edited.

5. Enable the service

   $ sudo chmod 664 /etc/systemd/system/wg-dashboard.service
   $ sudo systemctl daemon-reload
   $ sudo systemctl enable wg-dashboard.service
   $ sudo systemctl start wg-dashboard.service  # <-- To start the service
   

6. Check if the service run correctly

   $ sudo systemctl status wg-dashboard.service
   

   And you should see something like this

    ● wg-dashboard.service
    Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/wg-dashboard.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
    Active: active (running) since Wed 2024-08-14 22:21:47 EDT; 55s ago
    Process: 494968 ExecStart=/home/donaldzou/Wireguard-Dashboard/src/wgd.sh start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
    Main PID: 495005 (gunicorn)
    Tasks: 5 (limit: 4523)
    Memory: 36.8M
    CPU: 789ms
    CGroup: /system.slice/wg-dashboard.service
    ├─495005 /home/donaldzou/Wireguard-Dashboard/src/venv/bin/python3 ./venv/bin/gunicorn --config ./gunicorn.conf.py
    └─495007 /home/donaldzou/Wireguard-Dashboard/src/venv/bin/python3 ./venv/bin/gunicorn --config ./gunicorn.conf.py
   
    Aug 14 22:21:40 wg sudo[494978]:     root : PWD=/home/donaldzou/Wireguard-Dashboard/src ; USER=root ; COMMAND=./venv/bin/gunicorn --config ./gunicorn.conf.py
    Aug 14 22:21:40 wg sudo[494978]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for user root(uid=0) by (uid=0)
    Aug 14 22:21:40 wg wgd.sh[494979]: [WGDashboard] WGDashboard w/ Gunicorn will be running on 0.0.0.0:10086
    Aug 14 22:21:40 wg wgd.sh[494979]: [WGDashboard] Access log file is at ./log/access_2024_08_14_22_21_40.log
    Aug 14 22:21:40 wg wgd.sh[494979]: [WGDashboard] Error log file is at ./log/error_2024_08_14_22_21_40.log
    Aug 14 22:21:40 wg sudo[494978]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed for user root
    Aug 14 22:21:45 wg wgd.sh[494968]: [WGDashboard] Checking if WGDashboard w/ Gunicorn started successfully
    Aug 14 22:21:47 wg wgd.sh[494968]: [WGDashboard] WGDashboard w/ Gunicorn started successfully
    Aug 14 22:21:47 wg wgd.sh[494968]: ------------------------------------------------------------
    Aug 14 22:21:47 wg systemd[1]: Started wg-dashboard.service.
   

   If you see Active: followed by active (running) since... then it means it run correctly.

7. Stop/Start/Restart the service

   sudo systemctl stop wg-dashboard.service      # <-- To stop the service
   sudo systemctl start wg-dashboard.service     # <-- To start the service
   sudo systemctl restart wg-dashboard.service   # <-- To restart the service
   

8. And now you can reboot your system, and use the command at step 6 to see if it will auto start after the reboot, or just simply access the dashboard through your browser. If you have any questions or problem, please report it in the issue page.

✂️ Dashboard Configuration

Dashboard Configuration file

Since version 2.0, WGDashboard will be using a configuration file called wg-dashboard.ini, (It will generate automatically after first time running the dashboard). More options will include in future versions, and for now it included the following configurations:

	Description	Default	Edit Available
[Account]	Configuration on account
username	Dashboard login username	admin	Yes
password	Password, will be hash with SHA256	admin hashed in SHA256	Yes
[Server]	Configuration on dashboard
wg_conf_path	The path of all the Wireguard configurations	/etc/wireguard	Yes
app_ip	IP address the dashboard will run with	0.0.0.0	Yes
app_port	Port the the dashboard will run with	10086	Yes
auth_req	Does the dashboard need authentication to access, if auth_req = false , user will not be access the Setting tab due to security consideration. User can only edit the file directly in system.	true	No
version	Dashboard Version	v4.0	No
dashboard_refresh_interval	How frequent the dashboard will refresh on the configuration page	60000ms	Yes
dashboard_sort	How configuration is sorting	status	Yes
dashboard_theme	Dashboard Theme	dark	Yes
[Peers]	Default Settings on a new peer
peer_global_dns	DNS Server	1.1.1.1	Yes
peer_endpoint_allowed_ip	Endpoint Allowed IP	0.0.0.0/0	Yes
peer_display_mode	How peer will display	grid	Yes
remote_endpoint	Remote Endpoint (i.e where your peers will connect to)	depends on your server's default network interface	Yes
peer_mtu	Maximum Transmit Unit	1420
peer_keep_alive	Keep Alive	21	Yes

Generating QR code and peer configuration file (.conf)

Starting version 2.2, dashboard can now generate QR code and configuration file for each peer. Here is a template of what each QR code encoded with and the same content will be inside the file:

[Interface]
PrivateKey = QWERTYUIOPO234567890YUSDAKFH10E1B12JE129U21=
Address = 0.0.0.0/32
DNS = 1.1.1.1

[Peer]
PublicKey = QWERTYUIOPO234567890YUSDAKFH10E1B12JE129U21=
AllowedIPs = 0.0.0.0/0
Endpoint = 0.0.0.0:51820

	Description	Default Value	Available in Peer setting
[Interface]
PrivateKey	The private key of this peer	Private key generated by WireGuard (wg genkey) or provided by user	Yes
Address	The allowed_ips of your peer	N/A	Yes
DNS	The DNS server your peer will use	1.1.1.1 - Cloud flare DNS, you can change it when you adding the peer or in the peer setting.	Yes
[Peer]
PublicKey	The public key of your server	N/A	No
AllowedIPs	IP ranges for which a peer will route traffic	0.0.0.0/0 - Indicated a default route to send all internet and VPN traffic through that peer.	Yes
Endpoint	Your wireguard server ip and port, the dashboard will search for your server's default interface's ip.	<your server default interface ip>:<listen port>	Yes

❓ How to update the dashboard?

Please note for users who are using v3 - v3.0.6 want to update to v4.0

• Although theoretically updating through wgd.sh should work, but I still suggest you to update the dashboard manually.

Please note for users who are using v2.3.1 or below

• For user who is using v2.3.1 or below, please notice that all data that stored in the current database will not transfer to the new database. This is hard decision to move from TinyDB to SQLite. But SQLite does provide a thread-safe access and TinyDB doesn't. I couldn't find a safe way to transfer the data, so you need to do them manually... Sorry about that 😔。 But I guess this would be a great start for future development 😎.

1. Change your directory to wgdashboard

   cd wgdashboard/src
   

2. Update the dashboard

   git pull https://github.com/donaldzou/WGDashboard.git --force
   

3. Install

   sudo ./wgd.sh install
   

Starting with v3.0, you can simply do sudo ./wgd.sh update !! (I hope)

🐬 Docker Solutions

Current, we have 2 beloved contributors provided solutions for hosting WGDashboard with Docker

Solution 1 from @DaanSelen

Please visit Docker-explain.md

Solution 2 from @shuricksumy

Please visit shuricksumy/docker-wgdashboard

For questions or issues related to Docker, please visit #272

📖 WGDashboard REST API Documentation & How to use API Key

Please visit the API Documentation

🥘 Experimental Features

Cross-Server Access

Starting with v4.0, you can access WGDashboards on other server through one WGDashboard with API Keys

Desktop App

Since the major changes for v4.0 is to move the whole front-end code to Vue.js. And with this change, we can take the advantage of combining ElectronJS and Vue.js to create a Desktop version of WGDashboard. Currently, we provide an Universal macOS app and a Windows app.

To download the app, please visit the latest release.

🔍 Screenshot

🕰️ Changelogs

Please visit the Changelogs.md