View who did what on your Minecraft server

The Audit Logs tab is the server's record of who did what and when. If a setting changed, a mod vanished or the server restarted at a strange hour, this is where you find out which person did it, and for config files it also shows the value before and after.

Open the Audit Logs tab

The tab sits in the More group of the left rail, which starts collapsed, so open that group first. On a phone the rail becomes a section dropdown. You see the tab if you own the server, or if you were invited with the Activity log permission. The Player (friend or family), Moderator and Co-admin invite presets all include it. Give friends access to your server explains the presets.

Read an entry

Entries are grouped by day, newest first. Each row names the person, what they did and, where it applies, the target, for example "ran the console command" followed by the command itself. The time reads "Today at", "Yesterday at" or "Last Monday at" and so on, then a plain date once it is a week old.

A row with no person's name belongs to System and carries an Automatic badge. That covers things done automatically or outside the panel, such as a start that followed a modpack install. A row with an API badge came in through an API call rather than from a person.

Click a row to open it. It shows:

• When, with the full date and time.
• Type, the kind of action, such as Power, Console, Backup, Files, Settings or Startup.
• What changed, for a saved config file, with each setting, its old value and its new one.
• The other details recorded with it, such as a file path or a backup name.

What the tab records

It records actions taken on the server from the panel, including:

• Power actions: start, stop, restart and force stop.
• Every console command, with the name of whoever sent it.
• Files edited, uploaded, renamed or deleted, and folders created.
• Backups created, restored or deleted.
• A change of server software or version in JAR Manager, with the old and new values.
• Plugins and mods installed, updated, enabled, disabled or deleted, and modpacks installed or removed.
• Whitelist, operator and ban changes, kicks and teleports from the Players tab.
• Renaming the server and reinstalling it.

Background checks the panel runs for itself, such as the hidden list command that keeps player names fresh, are left out. The tab is not a player log. For what players do in the game, read the Console or the server's log files, as in Find Minecraft server logs and crash reports.

Find one change

1. Type a word in the search box, such as a player's name, a file name or a setting like pvp. The search reads the person, the action and the changed settings.
2. Add a User or Action filter to narrow it further. The lists only offer people and types that appear in your log.
3. Choose 10, 25 or 50 entries per page, and press Refresh to load the latest.

When a config file is saved through the Config Editor or the File Manager, the panel compares it with the old version. For server.properties and other simple config files you see each changed setting. A setting whose name contains pass, secret, token, credential or api key is shown as "(hidden)". For other files you see how many lines were added and removed.