# How to Turn Django Admin Into a Lightweight Dashboard

DevFeed: [How to Turn Django Admin Into a Lightweight Dashboard](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-to-turn-django-admin-into-a-lightweight-dashboard-33911.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://hakibenita.com/how-to-turn-django-admin-into-a-lightweight-dashboard>)

Author: Haki Benita

Published: 2017-03-30T21:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Haki Benita](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/haki-benita.md>)

Topics: [Django](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/django.md>), [dashboards](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/dashboards.md>), [Object-relational mapping](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/orm.md>)

Tags: [articles](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/articles.md>), [charts](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/charts.md>), [dashboards](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/dashboards.md>), [django](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/django.md>), [django-admin](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/django-admin.md>), [how-to](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/how-to.md>), [lightweight](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/lightweight.md>)

## AI overview

A tutorial on customizing Django Admin into a lightweight dashboard with a summary table and charts. It uses Django Admin customization, a proxy model, templates, filtering, and aggregation without adding dependencies.

## Source excerpt

Django Admin is a powerful tool for managing data in your app. However, it was not designed with summary tables and charts in mind. Luckily, the developers of Django Admin made it easy for us to customize. We are going to turn Django Admin into a dashboard by adding a chart and a summary table.