BullMQ & Redis tools
Durabull vs BullMQ Control Dashboard
BullMQ Control Dashboard adds a connection-management interface around Bull Board: SCAN discovery, per-connection boards, a combined /board/all view, and HTTP basic auth. Bull Board itself also supports framework-integrated authentication and a standalone discovery CLI.
Choose it if you already standardized on Bull Board and only need a discovery/auth shell around it.
Choose Durabull if you want that discovery model plus alerts, schedulers, workers topology, and MCP — without running a Bull Board wrapper.
Capabilities
The details that change the decision
| Feature | Durabull | Control Dashboard |
|---|---|---|
| Core UI | Durabull dashboard | bull-board, with a discovery shell |
| Discovery | Redis SCAN for <prefix>:*:meta. No app SDK for inspection. | SCAN <prefix>:*:meta |
| MCP | Hosted MCP with OAuth, 30 tools, redaction, opt-in writes | Not documented |
Setup
How Control Dashboard connects
Add Redis connections in the UI. No worker SDK.
Application changes. None in the app.
- Queue discovery
- Yes,
SCAN <prefix>:*:meta. - Environments
- Multiple Redis from the UI. No org product beyond basic auth roles (admin/reader).
- Alerts
- Not documented.
- AI & MCP
- Not documented.
Economics
Understand what you are paying for
- Control Dashboard pricing
- No price is listed. The repository has no LICENSE file, so no reuse license is granted; confirm terms with the author before deploying.
- Control Dashboard license
- None published (no LICENSE file; GitHub reports no license).
- Durabull
- Hosted dashboard is free to start. Redis, worker compute, and infrastructure operations remain your costs. Check the pricing page for current terms. Apache License 2.0 (OSI-approved open source). Self-host on your own infrastructure.
Questions about Control Dashboard and Durabull
Is this different from Bull Board?
It is Bull Board plus connection management and SCAN. Job UI behavior is still bull-board. Durabull is a separate product.
Evidence
Sources & methodology
Durabull details: product documentation, pricing, and MCP reference. Found a change? Send a correction.
Continue your research
- Durabull vsBull BoardMIT dashboard with embedded adapters and a standalone Redis-discovery CLI.
- Durabull vsTaskforce.shHosted dashboard by the BullMQ authors. Auto-discovers queues. Priced per Redis connection. Includes MCP.
- Durabull vsWorkbenchMIT BullMQ dashboard with Redis discovery, alerts, a desktop app, and local MCP. Discovery limits are configurable.
Connect Redis. Queues appear.
Inspect your Redis-backed BullMQ queues in one place. Hosted Durabull is free to start.