The Skulltag Log File Analyzer or „SLFA“ is a small tool, that allows you to see who was on your server, what happened in your server, and statistics of traffic of your server!

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You might be a little confused on how to use the program; however this tutorial should help you understand the basics.

Understanding the layout

• Directory – Directory of the Logfile you want SFLA to analyze.
• Exit – Exit the program. Self explanatory…
• Help – Small help documentation. If you don’t find your answer on this tutorial, try the Help documentation.
• About – About the program.

• Extract Player’s names from all log files - See what players have been in your server, and how many times they connected to your server.
• Search for a text string or IP Address – You can search the log files for a chat message, server messages “Like who called a vote, who is remotely managing your server, etc”, and a Players IP address.

Sounds easy right? Lets keep going!

Analyzing a Logfile

To begin using the program, you will need to select a location of where all of your logfiles are located at. Click on “Directory” from the top menu, and find the directory path of where your logfiles are located at.

Extracting Player’s names

When you have the logfiles that you want to analyze, click on the “Extract Player’s names from all log files”. This will begin searching all players that connected to your server, and how many times they connected to your server. Once the program has finished scanning, you will have the results on a separated window:

Then the Skulltag Log File Analyzer will create two text documents, so you are able to view the results later on.

Search for a text or IP

This is where you can scan your log files of what happened in your servers. When you click on the “Search for a text string or IP Address” button; you can be able to look for any chat messages, server messages, and players IP addresses.

I have an example search;

As you can see, I searched for “heh” and received two incidents of where I said “heh” on the server.

Show the connection times graph

This neat little feature, will show you what time your server had a lot of activity overall.

• Note: To use this tool, you must have the already extracted the player’s name.

To view your connection times, just click on the “Show the connection times graph” button.

You will see something like this: