Read your server's resource graphs

Under the console and power buttons, the Console tab draws a card for each thing your server spends: processor, memory, disk and network. Each card shows a live number and a line over time. This guide explains how to read them, so you can tell a quiet server from a struggling one and find the moment something changed.

For what to do about a graph that looks bad, see Why is my server lagging?.

The cards

• CPU Usage is your share of the plan's processor, with the allowance beside it, such as "of 2 vCPUs". 100% means every vCPU on your plan is fully busy.
• RAM Usage is memory in use, out of your plan's RAM.
• Disk Usage is space used, out of your plan's disk.
• Network Usage is download plus upload together, per second. It has no ceiling to be full of, so it stays one colour.
• Ticks per second appears on Minecraft only. A healthy server sits at its target of 20.
• Player activity appears on games that report a player count. It shows Online now and when people tend to play.

The left rail repeats the live numbers as CPU, RAM, Disk and Net (plus TPS on Minecraft), so you can keep an eye on them from any tab. While the server is off, the CPU, RAM and network numbers read zero.

What the colours mean

The CPU, RAM and disk lines and numbers are calm below 70% full, amber from 70% and red from 90%. Each stretch of the line keeps the colour it earned at the time, so a week-long graph shows exactly when the server was under strain, not just how it looks now. Ticks per second is judged the other way up: amber below 18 and red below 16.

Pick a time range

Every card has its own range buttons: 1m, 5m, 15m, 1h, 6h, 24h and 7d (a dropdown on a phone). The card opens on 1m, and the range you choose is remembered for that card in your browser.

• 1m, 5m and 15m are live, with a reading every second.
• 1h, 6h, 24h and 7d are recorded history. A reading lands every minute, and the longer ranges group them into 1, 2 and 5 minute steps.

Hover over the line, or tap it on a phone, to read a point. Live ranges show the single reading. History ranges show the average for that step with its lowest and highest reading, such as "42.0% avg, 10.0% - 80.0%", so a short spike is not averaged away.

To line a spike up with a complaint, choose 6h or 24h and find the time players reported the problem.

Messages you may see

A gap in the Ticks per second line means no reading, not a zero.

Disk Analyser

Disk Usage says how full the disk is, not what filled it. Open Disk Analyser under Essentials in the left rail for the breakdown, switch between Bars and Treemap, and use Rescan after you delete something. Server out of disk space? Free it up covers what is safe to clear.