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Field notes on running game servers

Retention, uptime, attribution and the operational craft of keeping a community alive.

Analytics
Minecraft server analytics: the Google Analytics for your server
Minecraft server analytics done right. Tickr is basically Google Analytics for Minecraft servers: player counts, retention cohorts, sessions, uptime and crash post-mortems in one dashboard.
Jul 2, 2026 · 5 min read
Guides
Track any game server in two minutes
Pull mode queries your server over its public query protocol. No plugin, any host, 350+ games. Here is the whole setup.
Jun 11, 2026 · 1 min read
Operations
Uptime that actually means something
A 99.9% badge is meaningless if it counts a crash-loop as "up". Here is how Tickr classifies downtime: crash, OOM, restart or network.
Jun 4, 2026 · 1 min read
Analytics
Measuring retention on game servers (without lying to yourself)
Daily active players is a vanity metric on a wipe-driven server. Here is how to read D1/D7/D30 cohorts the right way.
May 28, 2026 · 1 min read