Get Player Stats From Your Minecraft Server Logs

NOTE: The subject of this post was vibecoded, but this post is 100% written by a real life human being

I have a Minecraft server with about 6 years of logs (covid minecraft server baby!) and I always wondered who has played the most and when, so I had a friendly robot slop together a little go app you can run on a cronjob to generate an HTML report.

For a demo of the report, see here:

https://jaydens-tasty-slop.github.io/minecraft-log-analyzer/ Here’s the repo: https://github.com/jaydens-tasty-slop/minecraft-log-analyzer

It saves events it parses out of the logs into a sqlite database, then incrementally parses new files daily if you run it in a cronjob.

Features

Server Stats:

• Total unique players
• Total play time in hours
  • Play time by year
  • Play time by player

Player Stats:

• Play time (hours) (and by year)
• Play time with other players (see who plays with who)
• Sessions
• Time played
  • Social time (with at least 1 other player on)
  • Loner time (playing alone)
• Longest, shortest, and average session
• Longest, shortest, and minimum in-game lifetime
• Deaths
• Chat messages / commands
• Previous aliases

Chat Messages:

• By default there is also a chat log rendered (but not linked to from other pages)
• Pass -no-chat to omit the generated chat.html transcript. Chat counts remain in player statistics.