##Simple Starbound Server Monitor After using a number of existing options for monitoring Starbound server status, and finding them lacking (either due to being on undesireable platforms [node.js] or featureset), I put together a short PHP based option that can be simply embedded in a webpage as desired:
Current Players: 0/8
Recent Messages
Simply by loading the results of of the php script into a div somewhere on the page. Naturally, this output can be edited and formatted as required, to be placed into a ticker or another container on a community site.
$('#status').load("/monitor/monitor.php");The small ~ 60 line PHP script simple takes the path of the Starbound log, and config file as variables:
$log = "..../server/starbound_server.log";
$config = "..../server/linux32/starbound.config";This allows it to parse out the maximum number of players, and parse the log for chat messages, currently logged in users, and so on. Since there are no timestamps in the logs, it may be beneficial to write a small inotify script to insert these events into a db, and provide timestamps for messages, last logged on etc, but that will be a later exercise.