Plugin monitoring: tracking what's installed and what's outdated

With the plugin installed, clan.me captures a snapshot of your installed plugin list at each heartbeat. This gives you a history of which plugins were running at any point in time and flags ones that are running outdated versions.

What clan.me tracks

Each heartbeat includes the name and version of every plugin currently loaded on your server. This list is stored with a timestamp, so you can see exactly when a plugin was added, updated, or removed.

The plugin correlation alert uses this data to detect whether a TPS drop occurred within 5 minutes of a new plugin loading, which is the most common pattern for a badly-behaved plugin causing immediate performance problems.

Outdated version detection

clan.me compares your installed plugin versions against the latest known versions from Modrinth and SpigotMC. Plugins with a newer version available are flagged in the dashboard with the installed version, the latest version, and a link to the plugin's page.

Outdated plugin detection covers the most popular Paper plugins. Not every plugin is indexed: obscure or private plugins may not have version data available. A plugin not showing an "outdated" flag does not necessarily mean it is current.

Reading the plugin list

The plugin list in your dashboard is useful for:

• Auditing what's actually running on your server, particularly after another admin made changes
• Finding forgotten test plugins that were never removed
• Correlating a TPS change with a specific plugin addition or update by checking the change timeline
• Planning update cycles by seeing which plugins are furthest behind their latest versions