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Community-Contributed Monitoring Cards Are Here

March 2026

KubeStellar Console now has a marketplace — an open repository of community-contributed monitoring cards, dashboard presets, and themes that anyone can install with click.

What’s in the Marketplace?

The console-marketplace repo is where the community shares monitoring cards for tools and platforms that matter to them. Recent additions include:

  • wasmCloud — monitor your WebAssembly workloads
  • Metal3 — bare-metal provisioning status and inventory
  • Buildpacks — build status monitoring
  • Flatcar Container Linux — node OS monitoring
  • CoreDNS — DNS query rates, cache hits, and error tracking
  • Lima — lightweight VM monitoring for macOS development

Each card comes with demo data so you can preview it before connecting to a real cluster.

How to Contribute a Card

The marketplace is designed for contributions. If you use a CNCF project or Kubernetes tool that doesn’t have a monitoring card yet, you can create:

  1. Fork console-marketplace
  2. Add a card preset JSON file with your card’s configuration
  3. Include demo data so others can preview it
  4. Open a PR — automated quality checks validate your submission

No Go or React code required. Card presets are declarative JSON that define what data to fetch and how to display it.

Quality Gates

Every marketplace submission goes through automated checks:

  • Schema validation — ensures your card preset is well-formed
  • Registry integrity — verifies IDs and naming conventions
  • Nightly auto-QA — scans for regressions across all cards

This keeps the marketplace reliable as it grows.

Installing Cards

From the console:

  1. Open the card catalog (click + on any dashboard)
  2. Browse the Marketplace tab
  3. Click Install on any card
  4. It appears on your dashboard immediately