CLI

The PingBoard container includes a small CLI, reachable via docker exec. It's intentionally minimal — the day-to-day interface is the dashboard and the API.

reset-password

If you've forgotten the admin password, reset it from the host:

docker exec pingboard pingboard reset-password admin@example.com

The command generates a new random 20-character password and prints it once:

Password reset for admin@example.com.

  New password: Xk9…

Sign in with this password, then change it from Settings.

Sign in with the printed password, then set a new one from Settings. If no account exists with that email, the command says so and exits non-zero.

This requires shell access to the container host — that's the security model. Anyone who can docker exec into the container already owns the data volume.

Other commands

# Print the running version
docker exec pingboard pingboard --version
 
# Show usage
docker exec pingboard pingboard --help

With no arguments, pingboard starts the server — which is what the container itself runs.