CakePHP Status Dashboard - Everything You Need To Know About Your App On One Page
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First off this thing is still pretty rough. I don't have any unit tests at the moment and I'm likely to make huge, wholesale changes on a whim.
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What The Heck Is This Thing?
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. Check out the screenshot:
Or visit this live (but admittedly boring) example.
What Are The Different Panels Available?
Right now there are four "core" widgets, some of which have multiple options, so they can produce multiple panels.
Google Analytics
Multiple panels for quick info on your visits, referrers and search engine keywords using the Google Analytics API. Adjustable timeframes to get a recent or long range snapshot.
Shells
Add logging to your shells to capture info when they run - great for shells that run from cron. Clicking on the shell link in the panel pops open a window with detailed information. Requires integrating the log task in your shell.
System
Basic information about the system hardware, including disk space and uptime.
Logs
Show Cake's log files. Can be used on any log file in /app/tmp/logs, including custom ones. Just pass the log file name(s).
Extending For Custom Panels
It's pretty easy to write your own custom panels. Check out the click plugin, which tracks outbound clicks and displays the results via panels in the status dashboard. I'll write full post on how to code your own panels in bit.
16 Comments
This is very cool! I want to try it on my personal web app project.
$.get("/status/google_analytics/<?php echo $options ?>/" + $("#<?php echo $key ?>-span").val(), function(data) {
$("#<?php echo $key ?>").html(data);
});
results in some sort of white page of death redirect, after flashing up the page with i think a cake error page, maybe a can;t find controller error, who know? it vanishes too quick to see :(
Any ideas? is there some sort of plugin config i need to do? i know cake has a new way to set plugin locations, but i have put this in the standard app/plugins folder.
Will
This plugin hasn't been updated to 1.3 yet. Soon I hope. Keep an eye on the GitHub repo.
the paths to the analytics actions need to have the controller in them now, so these lines are now:
$.get("/status/status/google_analytics/<?php echo $options ?>/" + $("#<?php echo $key ?>-span").val(), function(data) {
and
$.get("/status/status/google_analytics/<?php echo $options ?>/" + $(this).val(), function(data) {
note the double /status no idea why.
How can i get notified when its gets updated for 1.3?
Thanks for providing this. PS I remember your site being useful as well many years ago (okay like 2 or so.) Glad to see that you are still a Cake programmer.... :).
Thanks,
Matt
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