How to Make a Simple Dashboard for Your App in 60 Seconds

You shipped your app. Users are signing up. Things seem fine — but "seem" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. Without a dashboard, you are essentially flying blind. No visibility into errors, no sense of what your background workers are doing, and no way to know if that cron job actually ran at 3 AM.

The good news: getting a live logging dashboard does not require a weekend of configuration. Here is how to set one up with LogBlazer in about 60 seconds.

Step 1: Create a Project

Head over to app.logblazer.com and create a free account. No credit card required. Once you are in, create a new project — give it a name that matches your app or environment (e.g., production, my-saas-app, or staging).

That is it for setup. Your project is your dashboard. Every log you send will show up here, organized and searchable.

Step 2: Add a Source

Sources let you categorize where your logs come from. Think of them as labels for different parts of your infrastructure. You might add sources like:

web-server — your main application

background-worker — queue processors

cron-jobs — scheduled tasks

payment-service — billing-related events

This way, when you are debugging an issue, you can filter your dashboard to show only the logs that matter right now.

Step 3: Send Your First Log

Grab your API key from the project settings and send a log with a single HTTP request. Here is a quick curl example:

curl -X POST https://app.logblazer.com/api/v1/log \ -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"source": "web-server", "level": "info", "message": "App started successfully"}'

That is one endpoint. No SDK to install, no agent to configure. Any language or framework that can make an HTTP POST request works — Node, Python, PHP, Go, Ruby, whatever you are running.

You can use any of the standard log levels: debug, info, warning, error, and critical. Structured, consistent, and immediately filterable.

Step 4: Check Your Dashboard

Go back to your project in LogBlazer. Your log is already there. As you send more logs, your dashboard fills up with a live stream of everything happening in your app. You can:

Filter by log level to isolate errors or warnings

Filter by source to focus on a specific service

Use full-text search to find exactly the log entry you need

Invite your team so everyone has access to the same view

No complex query language. No YAML configuration files. Just your logs, organized and searchable.

That Is It

You now have a live dashboard for your application. It took about a minute, it costs nothing to start, and it scales with you as your app grows. The next time something goes sideways at 2 AM, you will have a clear trail of exactly what happened — and where.

If you have been putting off setting up proper logging because the existing tools felt like too much, give LogBlazer a try. Simple setup, clean dashboard, no bloat.