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Open-source BullMQ dashboard for modern Node apps

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Workbench is an open-source dashboard for BullMQ queues in Node.js and Bun applications. It mounts as a route inside thirteen supported frameworks or runs standalone via Docker, showing jobs, flows, schedulers, and per-queue metrics with search, tags, and a dark-mode interface. The MIT-licensed project ships a migration guide from bull-board, an MCP server for AI-assisted operations, and a macOS app, and it observes rather than replaces the operator's own BullMQ workers.

Decisive facts

  • Embeds as a mounted route in 13 frameworks (Express, Fastify, Hono, NestJS, Next.js, Nuxt, and more) or runs standalone with Docker
  • Boards, table, timeline, and Flow graph views with per-queue metrics, schedulers, and global search
  • Ships a bull-board migration guide and positions as a drop-in replacement dashboard
  • MCP server exposes queue operations to Cursor, Claude, Zed, and CI agents
  • Tags, saved views, basic-auth, and readonly mode for multi-team setups
  • macOS app, NPX CLI setup, and 50-plus framework and deployment guides
  • Respects BullMQ Pro observability env vars and never replaces your workers
Backend PlatformsDeveloper Toolsredisqueuesdashboardmonitoringtypescriptbackground-jobs

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