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Reduce logging spam

A logging channel nobody reads is the same as no logging channel. If yours has become a wall of teleports, this is how to quieten it without turning things off wholesale.

Fifteen filters, grouped by the complaint they solve.

“Teleports never stop”

The most common one by a distance, and usually not really teleports at all — Minecraft moves a player a block or two and reports it as one.

Three causes are already excluded by default: EXIT_BED, DISMOUNT, SPECTATE.

If you run Essentials, add PLUGIN. /home, /warp, /spawn and /tpa all arrive that way and are usually the entire remaining problem:

filters:
  ignored_teleport_causes:
    - EXIT_BED
    - DISMOUNT
    - SPECTATE
    - PLUGIN
  minimum_teleport_distance: 50    # ignore short hops entirely

“Chat is too busy”

filters:
  minimum_chat_length: 3                # skips "hi", "?", "."
  ignored_chat_containing:
    - "buy gold"

minimum_chat_length counts characters, not words. Three is enough to kill one-word spam without losing real conversation.

“Command logging is unusable”

/login, /register, /msg and similar are filtered by default — command logging posts lines exactly as typed, so without that you’d publish passwords and private messages. Don’t remove those; add to them.

If you only care about staff commands, invert it with the allow-list:

filters:
  only_log_commands:
    - ban
    - kick
    - op
    - gamemode

With anything in only_log_commands, only those are logged and everything else is ignored.

“One player floods everything”

A bot account, a staff alt, or an AFK farm:

filters:
  ignored_players:
    - AFKBot
    - 069a79f4-44e9-4726-a5be-fca90e38aaf5   # names or UUIDs
  exempt_permission: "discordlogger.exempt"   # or a permission node

The permission version is usually better for staff — it follows the rank rather than a list you have to maintain.

“A whole world is noise”

Creative plots, minigame worlds, a testing world:

filters:
  ignored_worlds:
    - creative_plots
    - minigames

“Advancements are constant”

Recipe unlocks and tab roots are already skipped. To cut more, a trailing * matches a whole tab:

filters:
  ignored_advancements:
    - "minecraft:husbandry/*"

“Deaths in the void world”

A parkour course or a void map produces the same death over and over:

filters:
  ignored_death_causes:
    - VOID
    - FALL

“Every creeper gets a message”

filters:
  minimum_explosion_blocks: 5
  ignored_explosion_sources:
    - CREEPER

A creeper going off in mid air destroys nothing and is rarely worth a line.

The alternative: split rather than filter

If the problem is volume rather than irrelevance, don’t filter — route. Send chat to its own channel and the noise stops competing with what you actually watch for. See moderation logs in a private channel.

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