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Console & Power Controls

The Console is the primary interface for interacting directly with your game server. In this guide, you will learn how to monitor hardware usage, send game commands, and manage your server’s power states.

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Power Controls (Action Buttons)

In the upper-right corner or sidebar of the Console dashboard, you will find four main power control buttons:
  • Start: Powers on the server container and launches the game process. Use this if your server is currently “Offline”.
  • Stop: Sends a graceful shutdown signal to the game (e.g., executing /stop or /save-all in Minecraft). This saves your progress and safely shuts down the server.
  • Restart: Gracefully stops the game and boots it back up immediately. Ideal for applying configuration changes or clearing RAM cache.
  • Kill: Instantly terminates the game process without saving.
    [!CAUTION] Only use “Kill” if your server is completely frozen or unresponsive to the “Stop” command. Using Kill regularly can cause file corruption, rollback your world progress, or corrupt database entries.

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Real-Time Monitoring Graphs

The Reviactyl panel displays continuous, real-time graphs representing your server’s resource utilization:
  1. CPU Usage: The percentage of processing power being used. If it remains near 100% for long periods, players may experience lag (consider optimizing plugins, mods, or upgrading your plan).
  2. Memory Usage (RAM): Displays the current memory allocated compared to your plan limit (e.g., 4 GB / 8 GB).
    • If the server exceeds its memory limit, the panel’s built-in OOM (Out Of Memory) killer will automatically stop the server to protect node stability. Optimize your game files or upgrade your plan if you hit this limit frequently.
  3. Disk Usage: Total storage space consumed by your game files (mods, worlds, logs, backups). Make sure to delete old log files (latest.log, debug.log) or old backups to free up disk space.

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Sending Console Commands

Below the live black terminal screen, there is a text command bar labeled “Type a command…”:
  • You can type any command here to control the game directly from the console without needing in-game administrator privileges.
  • Do not prefix commands with a slash (/). For example, type op PlayerName or say Hello World and press Enter.
  • Any responses or errors from the game server will print in real-time on the console log above.