What are Advanced Metrics?
Since version 1.8 (Beta) of Minecraft, there is a built in API to collect certain statistics about your server. This uses the GameSpy4 Protocol to query servers and get information.
What's Collected?
If you enable the advanced query protocol, we will collect the following information:
- Server Type
- MOTD
- Player Count and Player Maximums
- Plugins Installed
- Online Player Names
Do I Have To?
You are not required to turn on the
enable-query
feature in your server properties to be listed on the site.
We use another method (namely the server PING method) to check if your server is online.
Setup
Step 1
Configure Server
Configuring your server for Advanced Metrics
You must make sure that UDP traffic on your server's port is enabled. If you do not know how to do this, please submit a ticket.
To setup the new
Advanced Metrics
feature of MCSL, simply add the following to the end of your
server.properties
file:
enable-query=true
Step 2
Configure MCSL
Configuring MCSL to use Advanced Metrics
Now that you've setup your server so that Advanced Metrics can be polled, you must now enable the "Advanced Metrics" toggle button on your server's manage page.
Once that is complete, MCSL will start polling your server for the advanced metrics!