BetterCommandSpy

Welcome to BetterCommandSpy
BetterCommandSpy allows you and your staff to monitor the commands that are sent by users, and even fellow staff. You are able to customize and translate it to your liking; it's the exact command spy tool that your staff will benefit from to achieve their duties.

There are several command spy plugins on this platform, though they always have issues, which ends up affecting how well your staff team is able to operate. A plugin with a simple job, I've decided to produce this to solve the lack of a quality command spy plugin on the platform, aimed to be as simple, dependable, reliable, customizable and performant as can be.

If you're looking to give you or your staff the ability to spy on what commands your users or even your staff are running, BetterCommandSpy is what you are looking for. It's a simple step in improving your server's security.

BetterCommandSpy also pairs brilliantly with my other plugin BlackWidow to offer a total, dependable, and reliable command protection system on your servers.

New: Folia is supported on BetterCommandSpy (thanks yLeoft)


Features Overview

Improve your server's security by spying on your players' and staff's commands.

Issue bypass permissions to users who should not be spied on, such as your admins.

Works without the issues that plague other command spy plugins.

Improved permission handling for convenience and additional security.

Whitelist or blacklist commands that should or should not be spied on. This allows you to hide frequent commands such as /tpa and /spawn.

Completely customizable and translatable, including the option to use RGB hex color codes on 1.16+ servers. Messages are configured in a multi-line fashion so you can style it accordingly with your server's theme.

Vast version support. We've still got you covered, all you server owners still rocking versions as old as 1.7/1.8. :)

Free and open source software, giving you the liberties to use, modify, contribute to and redistribute BetterCommandSpy.

Supports most Vanish plugins out there.

Screenshots
Here are some pictures of the command spy alerts, which are fully configurable!

Alerts you of all the commands your users run. You can even whitelist/blacklist ones so you only see commands you are interested in.


Catch players thirsty for a list of plugins. ;)
(Cheeky advertisement: the companion plugin CommandDefender can block commands to your liking!)

..and be the top spy ‍

Copyright Notice

BetterCommandSpy is licensed under GNU AGPL v3.

Copyright (C) 2020-2025 lokka30

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as
published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU Affero General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
along with this program. If not, see < https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

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