How to read the chat on your BeamMP server

Open Players in the left menu and click the Chat tab. Chat and activity shows what players type and what happens at the door, newest at the bottom: joins, leaves, players turned away, kicks and bans. It works while the server is stopped too, for what was recorded before.

Read the feed

1. Open your server in the panel and click Players in the left menu.
2. Click the Chat tab.
3. New lines appear by themselves while the page is open. If you scrolled up, a button with the number of new lines takes you back down.

Lines look like:

• a player's name and what they typed,
• Server: and a message sent from the panel,
• joined, joined as a guest, left or left after and the time,
• tried to join but is banned, was turned away: not on the whitelist, was turned away: guests are off,
• tried to spawn a model which is blocked,
• was kicked or was banned, with the reason,
• The server started.

Find something

• Search names, messages and reasons finds lines by word.
• The filters under Show: Chat, Joins and leaves, Turned away and Kicks and bans. Click one or more, and click a filter again to clear it. When nothing matches, Show everything clears the filters and the search.

The page reads the most recent part of the log. When there is more, it says Only the most recent part of the log is read; older lines are not searched.

If chat is missing

If the tab says Chat is not being recorded: "Log chat" is off in the startup settings., turn on Chat logging in Settings, Game Settings and restart the server. Joins, leaves and refusals still show without it.

If the tab says Nothing has happened yet, the server has not run with the PlayNHost tools since they were switched on. Start it and the feed fills in.

Good to know

• The feed comes from the PlayNHost plugin's own log on your server, in the .pnh/beammp folder. BeamMP also writes its own log, Server.log, in the main folder.
• Reading the tab needs Use the console and the files permission Read contents.
• To answer players, see How to send a message to players on your BeamMP server.