Get Minecraft server alerts in Discord with a webhook

1. Open your Discord server, click the server name at the top left and choose Server Settings.
2. Open Integrations, then Webhooks.
3. Click New Webhook, or Create Webhook if the server has none yet. Discord adds a webhook with a default name.
4. Click the new webhook to open it and pick the channel the alerts should go to. You can also change its name and avatar here.
5. Click Copy Webhook URL, then Save Changes.

Creating a webhook needs the Manage Webhooks permission in that Discord. The owner and administrators have it.

Crash and console alerts are mostly for you and your staff, so a private channel such as #server-alerts suits them better than the general chat.

The copied URL starts with discord.com/api/webhooks/, followed by a number and a long code. That code works as a key to the channel.

1. Open your server in the control panel and go to the Settings tab.
2. Find the Discord notifications card and paste the URL into Webhook URL.
3. Click Send a test message. A message titled Notifications are on appears in the channel. This works before you save, so you know the URL is right.
4. Under Notify me when, switch on the events you want.
5. Click Save. The status next to the card title changes from Not connected to Connected.

The card accepts Discord webhook addresses only. A channel link, an invite or any other address is refused with the message that it is not a Discord webhook.

The Overview tab links to the same card. In the Protection card, Set up next to Discord notifications opens Settings, and the link reads Manage once a webhook is saved.

There are seven switches. The first five are under Notify me when; the last two are under Advanced alerts.

The two crash alerts come from crash watch, which brings a crashed server back by itself. Finding the cause of repeated crashes is covered in Minecraft server keeps crashing.

Backup finished is about the automatic backups. Restoring one is explained in back up and restore your server.

Each alert is an embed: a title, one or two lines of text, the play address of the server, the server name at the bottom and the time. A coloured bar on the left shows the type at a glance.

• On a Java server with players online, Restart first counts down 60 seconds in the game chat. The alert is then titled Server restarting and says players were warned.
• The recovery alert says roughly how many seconds the server was off.
• The sender shows as Cheapest Minecraft Hosting, whatever name you gave the webhook. The avatar you picked in Discord stays.
• Alerts are written in English, also when the panel is set to another language.

Click Advanced alerts below the normal switches to open the two extra ones.

Set up console keyword alerts

1. Switch on A word from the console. The field Words to watch for in the console appears.
2. Type your words or short phrases, separated by commas. You can enter up to ten, each between 3 and 60 characters.
3. Click Save.

• The panel reads logs/latest.log about once a minute and only looks at lines that are new since the last check.
• Upper and lower case do not matter.
• Each word sends at most one message every 30 minutes. The message shows up to three of the matching lines, and how often the word came past.

Useful console words for a Minecraft server

Plugin lines such as Could not pass event and issued server command only exist on plugin servers. On Fabric, Forge and NeoForge, OutOfMemoryError and Can't keep up work the same.

The public chat alert

Something in public chat posts only serious findings from a check of the public chat. Smaller findings are not sent to Discord. If that chat check does not run for your server, this switch sends nothing. To read back what players said, use search the chat history.

• Once a webhook is saved, the field stays empty and reads A webhook is set. Paste a new one to replace it.
• To change only the switches, leave the field empty and click Save. The saved webhook stays.
• To post in another channel, change the channel of the webhook in Discord; the URL stays the same. A new webhook works too: paste it and click Save.
• Send a test message tests the URL in the field, or the saved one when the field is empty.
• Turn off asks you to confirm, then forgets the webhook and stops every alert. The channel and the webhook in Discord remain, so delete the webhook there as well if you no longer use it.

Switching every alert off and clicking Save does not stop the messages. With no switch on, the panel falls back to the three defaults: Server crashed, Back online after a crash and Backup finished. Use Turn off to stop all alerts.

A server stopped with Stop, Kill or stop in the panel console stays off until someone starts it. After /stop typed in the game, crash watch starts it again without an alert.

Still no messages? Contact support, every day from 07:00 to 23:00 Central European Time. Never include the webhook URL in your message.

• Anyone with the full URL can post in your channel under any name. Do not share it in chat, on a screenshot or in a video.
• If it leaked, delete the webhook in Discord, create a new one and paste that in the panel. The old URL stops working the moment it is deleted.
• People you gave the Settings right can change the alerts. The panel never shows them the saved URL; see give someone access to your server.