diff --git a/dashboard/README.md b/dashboard/README.md
index b887e7051..d449a073a 100644
--- a/dashboard/README.md
+++ b/dashboard/README.md
@@ -1,23 +1,29 @@
-# Updating dashboard
+# Sanitizer Dashboard
 
-To build a new binary and upload it to the GCE instance:
+The dashboard is automatically built and updated from `master` on the GCE instance via [`start_script.sh`](start_script.sh).
 
-```
-go build --ldflags '-linkmode external -extldflags=-static' && \
-gcloud compute ssh --project "sanitizer-bots" --zone "us-east1-d" dashboard-v2 --command "sudo rm -f /opt/sanitizers" && \
-gcloud compute --project "sanitizer-bots" scp --zone "us-east1-d" sanitizers "dashboard-v2:/opt" && \
-gcloud compute ssh --project "sanitizer-bots" --zone "us-east1-d" dashboard-v2 --command "sudo chown root:root /opt/sanitizers"
-```
-
-or 
+## Creating the GCE instance
 
+```bash
+gcloud compute instances create dashboard-v3 \
+  --project="sanitizer-bots" \
+  --zone="us-east1-d" \
+  --machine-type="e2-micro" \
+  --network-tier="STANDARD" \
+  --address="35.207.33.19" \
+  --tags="http-server,https-server" \
+  --no-service-account \
+  --no-scopes \
+  --shielded-secure-boot \
+  --shielded-vtpm \
+  --shielded-integrity-monitoring \
+  --image-family="debian-13" \
+  --image-project="debian-cloud" \
+  --boot-disk-size="10GB" \
+  --metadata=startup-script='#! /bin/bash
+command -v curl >/dev/null || (apt-get -qq update && apt-get -qq install -y curl)
+while true; do
+  curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/google/sanitizers/master/dashboard/start_script.sh | bash >/var/log/sanitizer-dashboard.log 2>&1
+  sleep 600
+done'
 ```
-go build --ldflags '-linkmode external -extldflags=-static' && \
-gcloud compute config-ssh --remove && gcloud compute config-ssh --force-key-file-overwrite && \
-ssh dashboard-v2.us-east1-d.sanitizer-bots "sudo rm -f /opt/sanitizers" && \
-scp sanitizers "dashboard-v2.us-east1-d.sanitizer-bots:/opt" && \
-ssh dashboard-v2.us-east1-d.sanitizer-bots "sudo chown root:root /opt/sanitizers"
-```
-
-Note: If you get a message about "scp: /opt/sanitizers: Text file busy", wait a
-few seconds and try again.
diff --git a/dashboard/start_script.sh b/dashboard/start_script.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..6da4578f0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dashboard/start_script.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+set -euo pipefail
+
+if ! command -v go >/dev/null || ! command -v git >/dev/null || ! command -v lighttpd >/dev/null; then
+  export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
+  apt-get -qq update
+  apt-get -qq install -y golang-go git curl lighttpd
+  rm -f /var/www/html/index.lighttpd.html
+fi
+
+export HOME="${HOME:-/root}"
+REPO_DIR="/tmp/sanitizer-dashboard/sanitizers"
+
+if [[ ! -d "${REPO_DIR}/.git" ]]; then
+  rm -rf "${REPO_DIR}"
+  mkdir -p "$(dirname "${REPO_DIR}")"
+  git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/google/sanitizers.git "${REPO_DIR}"
+else
+  git -C "${REPO_DIR}" fetch --depth=1 origin master
+  git -C "${REPO_DIR}" reset --hard FETCH_HEAD
+fi
+
+cd "${REPO_DIR}/dashboard"
+go build -o /opt/sanitizers .
+
+mkdir -p /var/www/html
+/opt/sanitizers > /var/www/html/index.new.html
+chmod 644 /var/www/html/index.new.html
+mv -f /var/www/html/index.new.html /var/www/html/index.html