Tipboard data

We would like to use Tipboard as a dashboard for the usage of our API, server status and number of records in the database, etc. Tipboard supports a REST interface which works quite nice, but I have to push the complete content of a tile to the API. So I have to keep my own administration of e.g. number of API calls. It would be more convenient to send an update for each new API request and Tipboard would handle calculating the total number of API calls. Redis should be easily capable of handling these amount of data.

The other point is that since my use-case is about our API it would be neat that Tipboard would pull new data from our API, e.g. the total number of API calls, server status, etc. Instead of me writing a cron job to update Tipboard…

Is there any way my use-case can be solved within Tipboard, or is the solution to write my own connector or a layer in between to accumulate the data from our API and push it to Tipboard?