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.