ToolJet (AGPL-3.0, 38 000+ stars, v3.20) is an open-source low-code platform for building internal tools, admin panels, dashboards and business applications. Your engineering team connects to any data source — PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, REST APIs, Google Sheets, Stripe — and drags and drops tables, charts, forms and buttons onto a canvas. The result is a production-grade internal app deployed in hours, not weeks.
ToolJet 3.0 (2026) shipped AI-native app prototyping: describe the tool you want in natural language and ToolJet generates the component tree, connects the data source and wires the actions. A 20-person team replaces $2 400/year in Retool seats with a single ServOrbit VPS.
Self-hosted on your VPS, ToolJet runs on PostgreSQL with a single application container. All your business data — customer records, order history, support tickets — stays inside your infrastructure. No telemetry, no seat limits, no vendor lock-in.
Key features
When to use this solution?
Customer support admin panel
Replace your support team's patchwork of SQL queries and spreadsheets with a purpose-built admin panel. Connect ToolJet to your PostgreSQL or MySQL database, drag in a table component, add search and filter fields, wire action buttons to update ticket status or refund orders — and deploy the app in an afternoon. No frontend developer required.
Internal dashboards for operations
Pull live data from your database, your REST API and a Google Sheet into a single ToolJet dashboard. Add bar charts for monthly revenue, a data grid for pending orders and a KPI card for active subscriptions. Set up auto-refresh every 60 seconds. Share the URL with the ops team.
Order management and approval workflows
Build a multi-step approval workflow in ToolJet: a table listing pending orders with filter and sort, a detail panel that opens on row click, and Approve / Reject buttons that fire a REST API call and update a status field. Add a second page restricted to managers with aggregate views and CSV export.
Deploy ToolJet on your VPS
Guide optimized for ServOrbit Cloud VPS.
Order a ServOrbit VPS
A 2 vCPU / 2 GB RAM plan on Ubuntu 24.04 is recommended. ToolJet with PostgreSQL starts comfortably under 1.5 GB RAM at idle; 2 GB gives headroom for concurrent users and heavy query loads.
Deploy from the Marketplace
Open your ServOrbit control panel, go to Marketplace → Development → ToolJet, and click Deploy. AWX provisions Docker, generates secrets, writes the environment file and starts the containers. The app is ready in about 60 seconds.
Create the super-admin account
Open ToolJet in your browser. If you attached a domain, the address is https://your-domain.com — nginx terminates TLS and proxies to the container. Without a domain there is no public access: open an SSH tunnel with ssh -L 8096:127.0.0.1:8096 root@your-vps-ip then visit http://localhost:8096. The first-run wizard asks for your name, email and password; the first account created becomes the super-admin.
Connect a data source
In the ToolJet editor, click Data Sources → + New data source. Choose PostgreSQL, MySQL, REST API, Google Sheets or any of the 50+ connectors. Enter connection credentials — they are stored encrypted in your ToolJet database. Test the connection, save and start writing queries in the Query Editor.
Build and share your first app
Click Apps → Create new app. The canvas appears with a component panel on the left. Drag a Table component onto the canvas, bind it to a database query, add a search input and filter. Click Preview, then Release to publish. Share the URL with your team.
Frequently asked questions
Embed the deploy button
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