Server overview
Sign in at app.cerebrust.xyz and open Owners → My Servers in the top bar, then pick a server. Everything for that server hangs off the left-hand sub-nav, which is grouped by what you came to do.
Run more than one server? The server’s name at the top of the page is a switcher, and it keeps your place: switch from one server’s Wipe → Automation and you land on the other’s Wipe → Automation, with the same filters. The exceptions are a page about one particular player, base, team or raid — those belong to the server you found them on, so you land on that section’s list instead — and a page your role on the other server cannot open, which takes you to its overview.
| Group | Sections | What it is for |
|---|---|---|
| Monitor | Overview, Live feed, 3D map, Teams, Server control, Retention | Watching the server, and restarting it |
| People | Players, Bans, VIP, Moderators | Everyone on it, and everyone running it |
| World | Raids, Bases, Signs, Leaderboard | What is happening out on the map |
| Configure | Listing & Discord, Plugin behaviour, Gameplay mods, Rust server file, Wipe, Integrations | Changing how it all works |
| Account | Billing | What you pay for it |
You only ever see the sections your role can use. A moderator gets Monitor (minus Server control), People (minus VIP and Moderators), World and Configure; an owner gets everything. A group with nothing in it for you simply is not there.
The overview page
Section titled “The overview page”Finish setting up your server
Section titled “Finish setting up your server”Above everything else, a panel tracks how far through setup you are and what to do next. It is collapsed to a single line; click it for the full list.
Seven things, and each says what you actually get from it:
| Step | What it gets you |
|---|---|
| Connect your server | Everything else needs telemetry |
| Tell CerebRUST your wipe schedule | The in-game countdown, the pre-wipe Discord posts, and the wipe date on your public page |
| Connect your Discord | Kill feed, raid alerts, reports, chat mirror — and how we reach you when a base is about to decay |
| Choose your gameplay mods | Gather rates, stack sizes, furnace boost and the rest are built in. Most servers install fifteen plugins for this |
| Write your welcome message | The first thing a new player reads |
| Add your moderators (optional) | Your staff reach every server you run |
| Set up your public page (optional) | A link for your Discord, showing live players and your leaderboard |
Nothing here is self-reported — each step watches your actual configuration, so it is a status rather than a to-do list you tick yourself. Turning a mod deliberately off still counts: you have made the decision the step is asking about.
The two optional steps do not count against your percentage, and the panel disappears once there is nothing left to suggest.
Your plugin is out of date
Section titled “Your plugin is out of date”If the plugin on your server is older than the current release, a notice says so near the top of the page, with the version you are running and the latest one. It reads the version your plugin reported when it last started, so it needs no SFTP and works on every server — but a plugin older than v0.45.0 never reports one, and then the notice simply does not appear.
- With SFTP connected, the notice has an Update button: CerebRUST replaces
Cerebrust.cson your host and Oxide reloads it by itself within a few seconds, with no restart. - Without it, the notice links the download and tells you where it goes. On the CerebRUST Pterodactyl egg, a restart installs it for you.
Admins and owners see it; moderators do not. More in Updating the plugin.
Anything I should know?
Section titled “Anything I should know?”The strip at the top is the first thing on the page, and it only appears when there is something to say. It watches for:
- a raid in progress, and where on the map
- your plugin having stopped reporting, and for how long — while it is silent, the map and every live view are frozen at that moment. For admins it links to Server control, where a server that has gone down can be started again
- bases that run out of upkeep within a day, read from the sweep the plugin runs every five minutes
- how many raids landed in the last 24 hours
Every line is a link to the page that does something about it. When there is nothing wrong, it says so once and gets out of the way — it will never show you a wall of green ticks.
The rest of the page
Section titled “The rest of the page”- Live status — players online and when the server last reported in, updating in real time over a WebSocket rather than on a refresh
- Players-online chart — the shape of your server’s day, and where your peaks actually are
- Description — as reported by your server
Reading the players-online chart
Section titled “Reading the players-online chart”The chart covers the last 35 days, and a red vertical line marks every wipe in that period, so you can compare how one wipe started against the last.
It is kept at full detail where you are most likely to look and summarised further back:
| How far back | One point every |
|---|---|
| Last 24 hours | 5 minutes |
| 1–3 days | 30 minutes |
| Older | 1 hour |
Each point is the peak player count for its slot, not an average, so your busiest moment is never smoothed away — the shape of the graph is the same either way.
Server control
Section titled “Server control”Monitor → Server control is where you restart the server. It holds the Restart card — Rust’s own graceful restart, with a countdown players can see — and, if you have a game panel connected, the panel’s Start, Stop and Force restart. Only use Force restart when the server has stopped responding: it kills the process without letting Rust save. Admins and owners only.
“Last update” is your health indicator
Section titled ““Last update” is your health indicator”Your server heartbeats every 15 seconds. If the last-update time starts climbing into minutes, the plugin has stopped reporting — see Troubleshooting.
Everything is scoped to the current wipe
Section titled “Everything is scoped to the current wipe”Players, leaderboards, raids, gather stats — all of it resets when your server wipes. This is deliberate: a wipe is a fresh start, and last wipe’s numbers would only muddy this one’s.
Live means live
Section titled “Live means live”The overview, live map, chat and activity feed all update over a live connection. Leave the page open on a second monitor and it stays current — no polling, no refreshing.
The exception is the leaderboard, which compiles roughly hourly.
If you play rather than run a server
Section titled “If you play rather than run a server”Not everyone signing in owns a server. My Game, in the avatar menu at the top right, is the page for people who play on CerebRUST servers:
- the base of yours that runs out of upkeep first, across every server you play on
- how many tool cupboards you hold and where
- the servers you play on, and when you were last there
Upkeep figures come from the sweep the plugin runs every five minutes, so they are recent rather than live.
It is there for everybody, server owners included — owners play too. Your servers are under Owners in the top bar.
Your account
Section titled “Your account”The avatar menu at the top right has Account Settings, which is where your Steam identity, your public profile, your bases and your Discord link live.
Linking Discord is what lets CerebRUST reach you directly — base-decay warnings and other alerts arrive as a DM instead of only sitting in your notifications inbox.