Introducing Better Auth Console: The Admin Dashboard better-auth Deserves
If you've chosen better-auth for your project, you made a great decision. It's fast, flexible, and gives you complete control over your authentication. But there's one thing missing: a way to actually see and manage your users without writing SQL queries.
Today, we're launching Better Auth Console - an open source admin dashboard that fills that gap.
The Missing Piece
better-auth is an excellent authentication library. But once you ship to production, questions start piling up:
- How many users signed up this week?
- Why can't this user log in?
- Which sessions are active right now?
- How do I ban a problematic user?
Without a dashboard, you're left digging through database tables or building custom admin tooling. We've been there, and it's not fun.
What We Built
Better Auth Console gives you the admin experience you'd expect from Clerk or Auth0, but for your self-hosted better-auth setup:
User Management
View, search, and edit users across all your instances. See linked accounts, active sessions, and login history. Ban users when needed (with the admin plugin).
Session Monitoring
Track active sessions in real-time. See device info, expiration times, and revoke sessions instantly when something looks wrong.
Analytics Dashboard
Finally, visibility into your auth data. Track active users, new signups, and growth trends with 30-day breakdowns.
Organization & Team Management
Full support for the organization plugin. Create organizations, manage members, assign roles, and handle invitations - all from one interface.
Multi-Instance Support
Connect your dev, staging, and production instances. Switch between them instantly. See everything in one place.
Plugin-Aware UI
Better Auth Console automatically detects your installed plugins and adapts the interface. Using API keys? You'll see key management. Using 2FA? You'll see verification status. No configuration needed.
Why Open Source?
We believe admin tooling shouldn't be a black box. With Better Auth Console:
- Full transparency: Every line of code is on GitHub. See exactly how your data is handled.
- No per-user pricing: Self-host for free, forever. Your user count doesn't affect your bill.
- No vendor lock-in: Your data stays on your infrastructure. Migrate, modify, or fork whenever you want.
- Community-driven: Found a bug? Want a feature? Open a PR. We're building this together.
Getting Started
You can have Better Auth Console running in under 10 minutes:
- Clone the repository
- Configure your database connection
- Add your better-auth instances
- Deploy anywhere - Vercel, Railway, Docker, or your own servers
The dashboard connects directly to your existing better-auth database. No new database required, no data migration, no complexity.
What's Next
We're just getting started. On the roadmap:
- Audit logs for compliance
- Webhook management
- Custom role editors
- Advanced user analytics
- Team collaboration features
Join Us
Better Auth Console is MIT licensed and open to contributions. Whether you want to report bugs, suggest features, or submit PRs - we'd love to have you.
Ready to stop writing SQL queries and start managing your users properly? Get started now.