txAdmin Monitoring
txAdmin includes useful live server management and observability features. It is not a complete monitoring/alerting stack, so distinguish documented features from those provided by additional services.
What txAdmin can show
According to the upstream txAdmin feature list , supported capabilities include:
- Server and player status, with controls for starting/stopping/restarting.
- CPU and RAM usage, server thread-performance charts and player counts.
- Live Console, including search, history and server output.
- Server Activity Log, including connections/disconnections and selected player or game events.
- Automatic FXServer recovery after a crash or hang, when configured.
- Scheduled restarts, warning announcements and relevant custom events.
Read the first meaningful error in the Live Console before restarting a resource; repeated automatic restarts can conceal a persistent failure.
What needs another monitoring system
Do not assume txAdmin has built-in rules for automatic restart at a chosen memory threshold, arbitrary player-count threshold alerts, failure emails/SMS, or a general-purpose custom alert dashboard. These were previously presented here as standard txAdmin settings without reliable support.
For production monitoring, add an independent service for:
- Game-endpoint or join-health checks (not merely whether the web panel responds).
- Process uptime and host disk/memory availability.
- Database availability, backup status and recovery failures.
- Alert delivery to your chosen on-call channel.
Keep admin tokens and monitoring endpoints private. Periodically test notification delivery and configure alerts to avoid repeated false positives.
Day-to-day checklist
- Check the txAdmin dashboard and confirm the expected server build, uptime and player count.
- Review new console errors and resource-start failures.
- Watch server-thread performance as player load changes.
- Check the separate host/database monitoring and latest successful backup.
- Test one real client join and spawn after significant maintenance.
Troubleshooting
| Observation | First investigation |
|---|---|
| FXServer restarts repeatedly | First crash/log entry, failing resource, artifact compatibility |
| CPU usage rises during events | Affected resources, resmon/profiler and concurrent players |
| Game is unreachable but txAdmin loads | Server process, resource startup and 30120 TCP/UDP |
| Web panel unreachable | txAdmin port/address, private access or tunnel |
| Missing monitoring alerts | Configuration of the external monitoring service |
See Performance Monitoring, Server Logging, txAdmin Troubleshooting, and txAdmin’s official feature list .