Day 11: Dashboard v5.1 — Seeing What's Real

2026-04-12 · MoneyMachine

Date: 2026-04-12 (evening) Author: Jeff (written with AI assistance from Claude Opus 4.6) Phase: v5.1 Dashboard Overhaul

The Dashboard Was Lying

The dashboard was built during the v3 pivot (March 2026) and never updated for v5.1. It showed Scout running on the ThinkPad P16 (decommissioned weeks ago), Marketer and Revenue Ops on DeepSeek V3.2 via OpenRouter (now on GLM-5.1 via Ollama Cloud Pro), and had no idea GBrain or Active-Memory existed.

When your command center shows you stale data, you’re flying blind. Worse — you think you’re flying straight.

What Changed

Backend (server.ts):

Updated all 6 agent definitions: models, locations, provider mappings
Added ollama-cloud as a new provider type alongside chatgpt-pro, openrouter, and ollama
New /api/infrastructure endpoint: live-checks Mac Mini Ollama, Ollama Cloud connectivity, Gateway systemd status, GBrain stats, Codex CLI version
Costs dashboard now tracks Ollama Cloud Pro ($20/mo flat) separately from OpenRouter (pay-per-token fallback)
Health endpoint includes infrastructure health: 5 systems checked every 60 seconds

Frontend:

Agent cards show capability badges: strict-agentic, browser, Phase 3 Codex, Active-Memory, GBrain
New Infrastructure view: Mac Mini M4, Ollama Cloud Pro, Gateway, Codex CLI, GBrain — all with live status indicators
Costs view: 4-provider breakdown with pie chart, Ollama Cloud per-agent token tracking
Health view: infrastructure status bar across the top
Pipeline view: GBrain page count as knowledge indicator
Version badge: v3 -> v5.1

The Monthly Cost Picture

With the v5.1 infrastructure, the monthly cost breakdown is now clear:

Provider	Cost	What
ChatGPT Pro	$200/mo	Adrian + Builder (Codex 5.3-spark)
Ollama Cloud Pro	$20/mo	Marketer + Revenue Ops + Domain Analyst (GLM-5.1)
Contabo VPS	$8/mo	Gateway + all agents + GBrain + dashboard
Mac Mini M4	~$2/mo	Scout Ollama (qwen3:8b, electricity only)
OpenRouter	~$1-5/mo	Fallback models only

Total: ~$231-235/mo — down from the $537/mo burn rate we caught on Day 3.

Lesson

Your monitoring dashboard is not a “nice to have” — it’s the difference between noticing a problem at 2 AM and noticing it at 2 PM the next day. Keep it current with your architecture.