Register your services, expose a discovery API, route traffic to healthy instances. Consul without the HashiCorp license concerns and the steep learning curve.
Privacy-conscious teams often build internal services workflows in Notion or Google Sheets because the alternative is a $200/month SaaS contract. Switchboard gives you a purpose-built tool at a fraction of the cost, running on infrastructure you already control.
Point curl at /api/services to interact with Switchboard programmatically. The API follows predictable REST conventions: GET to list or fetch, POST to create, PUT to update, DELETE to remove. The response schema matches the internal data model exactly, so what you see in the dashboard is what the API returns.
A solo developer built a weekend project that needed services tracking. Instead of spinning up Postgres and writing an admin panel, they added Switchboard as a sidecar process. The REST API covered every operation the project needed. Development time saved: roughly a full day.
GET /api/services — List all services. Supports ?q=keyword for search and ?status=value for filteringPOST /api/services — Create a new service. Send JSON with at least nameGET /api/services/{id} — Fetch one service by IDPUT /api/services/{id} — Update fields on an existing serviceDELETE /api/services/{id} — Remove a serviceGET /api/stats — Returns total count and breakdown by statusGET /api/health — Returns {"status":"ok"} for uptime monitoringSelf-hosted service registry and discovery. Self-hosted on your infrastructure. Your data never leaves your server.
curl -fsSL https://stockyard.dev/install.sh | sh -s -- --tool switchboard
PORT=9170 ./switchboard
http://localhost:9170
Single binary. Embedded SQLite. No Docker. No database. No dependencies.
Your license key arrives by email within 5 minutes of checkout. Set it as an environment variable and restart the binary.
export SWITCHBOARD_LICENSE_KEY=stockyard_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ./switchboard
No cloud connectivity required. The binary validates the key offline with Ed25519 signatures.