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* fix(stack-activity): per-stack history integrity, attribution, sanitization Address the Stack Activity audit findings (PR 1 of 2): - Per-stack history integrity: drop the per-insert 100-row prune in addNotificationHistory that evicted quieter stacks' history whenever another stack got chatty. Periodic cleanupOldNotifications now caps per (node, stack) at 500 rows and per-node unattached system events at 1000 rows, on top of the existing 30-day retention. Signature takes an options bag and returns a per-stage summary so MonitorService can log what actually ran each cycle. - Actor attribution: thread req.user?.username through every notifyActionFailure call site and add synthetic actors at service emit sites (system:autoheal, system:scheduler, system:image-update, system:docker-events, system:blueprint, system:monitor, system:policy). The timeline renders system actors as "via <Label>" so an autoheal redeploy is no longer indistinguishable from a user redeploy. - Message sanitization: new sanitizeNotificationMessage at NotificationService.dispatchAlert strips KEY=VALUE pairs whose key ends in TOKEN/KEY/PASSWORD/SECRET/CREDENTIALS/AUTH, scrubs HTTP basic auth in URLs and Bearer tokens, collapses COMPOSE_DIR paths, and truncates to 1000 chars. Applied to the stored history and to every downstream Discord/Slack/webhook channel. The ImageUpdateService recovery-path direct DB write also runs through the sanitizer. - Composite pagination cursor: getStackActivity now accepts a (timestamp, id) cursor (?before=&beforeId=). The legacy timestamp-only form silently dropped events when a single compose up emitted many events sharing one millisecond. Route rejects beforeId without before. - Frontend hardening: distinct error state with retry button (initial fetch failure no longer renders as the genuine empty state), strict positive-integer parsing on cursor params, overrequest-by-1 pagination so the last page does not leave a dead "Load more" click, runtime guard on liveEvents merge that validates the level union, per-minute day-bucket recompute so an open panel does not stay on "Today" past midnight. No tier, role, or capability gate touched. Route permission gate remains stack:read on the named stack. * fix(stack-activity): sanitizer covers lowercase env vars and per-node compose dir External review surfaced two leak paths in the message sanitizer: - The sensitive-key regex was uppercase-only. Compose env names are conventionally uppercase but lowercase forms (db_password, jwt_secret, github_token) are valid and do leak through the same Docker and compose-parse error paths. Make the regex case-insensitive and tighten it to also catch bare TOKEN= / KEY= / PASSWORD= without a prefix word, while still leaving BYPASS, COMPASS, and similar non-secret keys alone. - The compose-dir path collapse only read process.env.COMPOSE_DIR, but the real resolution chain is node.compose_dir (per-node DB override) -> process.env.COMPOSE_DIR -> /app/compose. A node with a custom compose_dir could still leak absolute paths into stored history and downstream channels. Route both the dispatchAlert call and the ImageUpdateService recovery-path direct write through NodeRegistry.getInstance().getComposeDir(localNodeId) so the collapse covers every resolution outcome. Tests now assert lowercase keys are redacted and that BYPASS-style non-secrets stay intact in both cases. notification-routing mock extended to stub the new getComposeDir call. * chore(stack-activity): a11y roles, visibility-aware tick, live-disconnect signal Close three small follow-ups on the per-stack activity timeline: - A11y: each day-group gets role="list" and each event row gets role="listitem" so screen readers traverse the timeline as a list instead of a wall of text. The day-group container also carries an aria-label naming the bucket. - Visibility-aware day-bucket tick: the 60s setInterval that re-derives Today/Yesterday/Earlier now short-circuits when document.hidden, so a backgrounded panel does not re-render every minute for no visible effect. - Live-disconnect signal: useNotifications dispatches a sencho:notifications-connection custom event on WebSocket open and close. The timeline listens and, when explicitly disconnected, shows a one-line "Live updates offline; reconnecting…" hint above the list. The sidebar ticker already surfaces fleet-wide connection state; this adds an in-context cue for users who are focused on a single stack. Stack-name case normalization was considered and rejected: stack names are case-permissive per the isValidStackName validator, and lowercasing on read or write would silently rename or hide a user's "MyApp" stack. * ci(stack-activity): drop unnecessary escape in URL_BASIC_AUTH regex ESLint no-useless-escape errored on \- inside the character class [a-zA-Z0-9+.\-] at notificationMessage.ts:14. Move the dash to the end of the class so it's an unambiguous literal and the escape is no longer required. Behavior is identical; sanitizer tests still pass. * revert(stack-activity): drop unvalidated E2E spec from this PR The spec was committed without ever running against a real Docker daemon, then failed in CI when it ran for the first time: deploy returned 200 but no notification appeared on the activity endpoint within the polling window, suggesting either a deploy-notification race or a node-id resolution mismatch in the CI environment. Backend unit tests (route + composite cursor + sanitizer) and frontend component tests cover the same logic. The E2E spec will land in a dedicated follow-up once it has been authored against a working CI environment.
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Sencho is currently in public beta on the path to v1.0. Core workflows are actively tested, but early users should review the known limitations and avoid deploying it blindly on critical infrastructure without testing in their own environment first.
What Sencho is
Sencho is for homelab operators, small DevOps teams, and platform engineers who run services on Docker Compose, want a graphical interface without giving up file-on-disk workflows, and need to manage more than one machine without SSH gymnastics or a VPN.
It runs as a single container on your hardware and gives you a UI for the work you currently do over SSH on compose stacks: deploying, editing files, watching logs, restarting containers, browsing volumes, and recovering from failures. Your compose files stay on the host filesystem and remain the source of truth.
A Sencho instance is autonomous. To manage another machine, you install a second Sencho on it and connect them with a long-lived API token; the primary dashboard then acts as an authenticated HTTP and WebSocket proxy across your fleet. Use TLS, a VPN, or a private network for any untrusted link. Each node still uses its local Docker socket (see Quick start), but Sencho does not require SSH and does not expose a remote Docker socket on the network. For nodes behind NAT or strict firewalls, the Pilot Agent establishes a single outbound WebSocket tunnel to the primary, so the remote host opens no inbound port at all.
Most capabilities are free in the Community tier. A few advanced automation and fleet-control features ship in paid tiers; pricing lives at sencho.io/pricing.
What Sencho is not (yet)
Sencho is a Docker Compose control plane focused on homelab and small-fleet operators. It is intentionally not:
- A Kubernetes scheduler or replacement.
- A reverse proxy. Front Sencho with your existing proxy (Caddy, Traefik, nginx) for TLS and authentication on the public edge.
- A monitoring stack. Sencho surfaces container and host metrics in the dashboard but does not replace Prometheus, Grafana, or your existing alerting pipeline.
- A CI / CD pipeline. Use webhooks, the API, or Git-sourced stacks to connect Sencho to your build system.
See KNOWN_LIMITATIONS.md for the current limitation list.
Tier coverage: All bullets below are available in the free Community tier unless marked with (Skipper) for paid mid-tier or (Admiral) for paid top-tier. Full breakdown at sencho.io/pricing.
Capabilities
Stacks
- Full Compose lifecycle: create, deploy, restart, stop, pull
- Monaco editor with diff preview before save and one-click rollback
- Git-sourced stacks pulled and synced from any repository
- File explorer for compose, env, and supporting files
- Stack labels for grouping and bulk operations
- App Store with LinuxServer.io templates
Observability
- Aggregated log search and stream across every container in the fleet
- Live container stats, health checks, and image-update notifications
- Threshold alerts for CPU, memory, and network
- Read-only audit log of every action (Admiral)
- Network topology view of containers, networks, and nodes
Fleet
- Multi-node management via authenticated HTTP and WebSocket proxy
- Fleet view with grid and topology layouts
- Fleet snapshots of compose and env across the fleet
- Pilot Agent for nodes behind NAT or strict firewalls
- Node compatibility checks before deploying
Automation
- Auto-heal policies for failed containers (Skipper)
- Auto-update policies for image rollouts (Skipper)
- Scheduled operations on cron (Skipper)
- Blueprints: declarative fleet templates with drift detection (Skipper)
- Webhooks on stack lifecycle events (Skipper)
- Encrypted Fleet Secrets pushed to labeled nodes (Skipper)
Security
- SSO: custom OIDC, presets for Google, GitHub, and Okta, plus LDAP and Active Directory
- Two-factor authentication with TOTP and backup codes
- RBAC with five roles: admin (full control), viewer (read-only), deployer (deploy and restart, no edits), node-admin (admin scoped to specific nodes), and auditor (read-only with audit-log access)
- Vulnerability scanning via Trivy on every tier with VEX-based suppression; SARIF export and SBOM upload (Skipper)
- Private registries (Admiral) and deploy enforcement (Skipper) for non-compliant images
- API tokens for automation
Operations
- Host console in the browser (Admiral)
- Off-site stack archives via custom S3 (every tier) or Sencho Cloud Backup (Admiral) for managed storage
- Notification routing to Slack, Discord, email, and webhooks
- Global search across stacks, containers, and services
- Resources view for images, volumes, and networks with scoped prune actions
Before you install
Sencho talks to Docker through the host's /var/run/docker.sock. Mounting this socket grants Sencho the same privilege as sudo docker on the host. This is the same model used by Portainer, Dockge, Komodo, and other Compose dashboards. If your threat model requires stricter isolation, see running with a non-root container user and front Sencho with a reverse proxy that enforces authentication.
Quick start
Sencho runs in a single container.
services:
sencho:
image: saelix/sencho:latest
container_name: sencho
restart: unless-stopped
ports:
- "1852:1852"
volumes:
- /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock
- ./data:/app/data
# 1:1 Compose Path Rule: the host path MUST match the container path
- /opt/docker:/opt/docker
environment:
- COMPOSE_DIR=/opt/docker
- DATA_DIR=/app/data
docker compose up -d
Open http://your-server:1852 and create your admin account.
Always front Sencho with a TLS-terminating reverse proxy in production. See the self-hosting guide for hardening, environment variables, and reverse-proxy examples.
Run with docker run instead
docker run -d --name sencho \
-p 1852:1852 \
-v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
-v sencho_data:/app/data \
# 1:1 Compose Path Rule: the host path MUST match the container path
-v /opt/docker:/opt/docker \
-e COMPOSE_DIR=/opt/docker \
saelix/sencho:latest
For the full walkthrough, see the quickstart guide.
Adding remote nodes
To manage a second machine, install Sencho on it the same way, then add it from the primary dashboard with its URL and a long-lived API token. The primary proxies authenticated HTTP and WebSocket requests to the remote instance. The remote node does not run SSH for Sencho, does not expose its Docker socket on the network, and does not run a separate agent process. The local Sencho on each node manages its own Docker through the standard socket mount described in Quick start. Nodes behind NAT or strict firewalls can opt into the Pilot Agent for outbound-only connectivity.
See the multi-node guide for the full token-bearer flow.
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Telemetry and data handling
Sencho does not emit telemetry, analytics, or crash reports. The only outbound traffic is license validation against Lemon Squeezy, and only when a paid license key is activated. Community-tier instances make no outbound calls to Sencho-controlled endpoints. Stack metadata, container inventory, and user activity never leave your instance.
Documentation, community, and license
- Documentation: docs.sencho.io
- Community: GitHub Discussions
- Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
- Security: SECURITY.md. Do not open public issues for security vulnerabilities.
- License: Business Source License 1.1. Free for most self-hosted production use under the BSL Additional Use Grant; see LICENSE and the license FAQ for exact terms. Converts to Apache 2.0 on 2030-03-25.