AdminWatchdog

[1.4.3] - 2026-07-09

The last few versions focused on Discord. This one focuses on the question that comes right after a Discord alert fires: "okay, but what has this person actually been doing?" Right now the honest answer is "scroll through commands.log and squint." Not anymore.

Added

• Audit history you can actually query. Every event AdminWatchdog already tracks (commands, gamemode changes, creative-inventory grabs, item drops and pickups) now also lands in a small local SQLite database. Run /adminwatchdog history <player> and you get their last 10 actions with timestamps, right in chat. Add a number to see more, up to 50. No more digging through log files when someone asks "wait, what did Steve actually do?"
• A brake on custom-response spam. If a monitored player finds a pattern that triggers your custom alerts and decides to mash it, your Discord channel used to mash right along with them. Each player (and the console) is now capped at 5 triggers per 60 seconds by default. Both numbers are yours to change in config.yml.

Changed

• Old audit rows clean themselves up. Default retention is 30 days; set logging.database-retention-days: 0 if you'd rather keep everything forever.
• Config auto-migrates like it always has. Update the jar, restart, and the new keys show up in your existing config.yml without you touching anything.

Under the hood

• Rewrote the Discord embed builder around Gson instead of hand-assembled JSON strings. Same messages, less code duplicated across the three embed types.
• Dropped a Guava cache that was caching something cheaper to just recompute. One less moving part.

Upgrade notes

• New config keys: logging.database-logging, logging.database-retention-days, custom-responses.rate-limit.*. All optional, all have sane defaults, nothing breaks if you ignore them.
• New permission: adminwatchdog.history (defaults to op).
• The jar is noticeably bigger this release because it now bundles sqlite-jdbc, native database drivers included, so you don't have to install anything extra on the server.