In this new post to his blog Matt Curry shows off a CakePHP status dashboard that can be included in your CakePHP app to get some vital statistics on its current state.

You build a cool CakePHP app and now you have to maintain it. You go to Google to check your analytics; you SSH to your system to check log files; You log into your web admin to check affiliate clicks'¦ Wouldn't it be cool if you could check all this (and more) from one page? That's what this status plugin does.

You can see a screenshot here and grab the code from the project's github page. Right now you can use the Google Analytics, shell logging, system information and log file viewer panels.