GUIDE

A public status page for your Minecraft server

One link players can check: each server online or offline, players, the join address, a day's uptime and the last week's outages. Free on every plan, with no player names shown.

“Is the server down?” is the question every server owner answers too often. A public status page answers it for you: one link your players can open from anywhere, with each server's state, how many are playing, the address to join and how the last week went. MineOps gives you one on every plan, Free included.

What players see

• A summary at the top, such as “All servers are online”, “Some servers are down” or “Maintenance in progress”.
• Each server you list, shown as Online, Offline, Starting or Maintenance. A server whose machine hasn't reported lately shows “No recent report” rather than a state that may be out of date.
• Its join address, so a new player can copy it straight from the page.
• Players online, as a count against the maximum, if you choose to show it. Names are never shown.
• Uptime over the last 24 hours: the share of the time the server was running, with when MineOps started watching if that is more recent. Time with no report counts neither way.
• Outages in the last 7 days, with when each started and how long it lasted, or that it is still going on.

The page refreshes every minute by itself. It shows nothing else about your organization: no machines, no other servers, no player names, no settings.

Set it up

1. Connect the machine that runs your servers, as in getting started. The page shows the servers MineOps watches.
2. Open Settings → Public status page.
3. Give the page a Title, your server's or network's name, and pick its Address: /status/ followed by 3 to 40 lowercase letters, digits and dashes. MineOps suggests one, and reserves it when you save.
4. Under Servers on the page, tick the servers to list. For each one you can type the join address players should use, such as play.example.com. Left blank, it uses the one on the server's page.
5. Choose whether to show how many players are online.
6. Tick Make the page public and press Save status page. The link to the page appears above the form.

You can make the page private again at any time with the same box, and change which servers it lists without changing its address.

Where to share it

• Pin it in your Discord's announcements or rules channel.
• Link it from your website or your server list entries.
• Put it in your server's MOTD, so players who see the server offline in their list know where to look. The MOTD generator writes the line for server.properties.

A status page and a Discord message

MineOps can also keep a live status message in Discord: one message, edited when a server changes state. The two do the same job in different places. The Discord message suits players who are already in your community. The status page suits everyone else: people who found your server on a list, friends you invited, and anyone whose Discord is acting up at the same time as your server.

What makes it honest

The page reports what the MineOps agent sees on the machine. During a maintenance window your servers show as Maintenance, so players know the downtime is planned. When the agent stops reporting, the page says so instead of showing the last state it knew.

The outage list comes from the Minecraft server offline alert, so add that rule for outages to appear. It's one of the recommended alerts, and it ignores a stop you make through MineOps, so a planned restart isn't listed as an outage.

That also means it needs the agent: the status page is for servers on a Linux or Mac machine you run. To check any server from outside, including one at a game host, use the free server status checker.

Be told before your players look

A status page tells players what is happening. To hear about it first, add alerts: MineOps posts to Discord or Slack when a server goes down, crash-loops or starts to lag, and again when it recovers. MineOps alerts go to Discord and Slack only, never by email or SMS. Set up Discord alerts.

Free and paid plans

The status page is part of every plan. On Free, it ends with “Powered by MineOps”; on paid plans you can turn that off. Free covers two Minecraft servers on one machine. The pricing page has the rest.