Console Beautify v1.0

Highlights​

• Readable console formatting with timestamps, severity tags and category tags.
• Smart color system for INFO, WARN, ERROR, DEBUG and category labels.
• Automatic category detection for plugins, worlds, players, commands, startup and general logs.
• Spam reduction for repeated messages.
• Cleaner stack traces for large plugin errors.
• Compact mode for small terminals and VPS consoles.
• Custom regex rules to hide, recolor or rename messages.
• Pretty startup summary with server, Java, plugin count and memory information.
• Does not modify latest.log by default. ConsoleBeautify focuses on live console output.

Console Preview​

12:30:05 INFO  PLUGIN  LuckPerms enabled in 428ms
12:30:12 WARN  WORLD   Chunk took 1187ms to load at world:32,-14
12:30:27 ERROR PLUGIN  Could not pass event PlayerJoinEvent to EssentialsX
12:31:04 INFO  PLAYER  Steve joined the game
12:31:20 INFO  COMMAND Steve issued server command: /spawn

Categories​

• PLUGIN - Plugin loading, plugin messages and plugin-related errors.
• WORLD - Worlds, dimensions, chunks, regions and saving messages.
• PLAYER - Player joins, leaves and player-related messages.
• COMMAND - Player and console command execution.
• STARTUP - Server startup and initialization messages.
• GENERAL - Messages that do not match a known category.

Color System​

• INFO - Normal server information.
• WARN - Warnings that may require attention.
• ERROR / SEVERE - Errors and severe issues.
• DEBUG / TRACE - Debug-level messages.
• Timestamp - Kept subtle so the message remains readable.

Noise Reduction​

• Hide repeated messages in a configurable time window.
• Keep busy production consoles readable.
• Reduce repeated warnings from noisy plugins.
• Group stack traces into cleaner blocks.

Custom Rules​

• hide - Hide unwanted console messages.
• color - Recolor matching messages.
• rename - Replace the category prefix for matched messages.

Configuration Preview​

enabled: true
colors: true
ansiMode: "always"
showTimestamp: true
compactMode: false
hideSpam: true
groupStacktraces: true
prettyStartup: true

spam:
  repeatWindowMillis: 2500
  maxRepeatsBeforeHide: 2

prefixes:
  info: "[INFO]"
  warn: "[WARN]"
  error: "[ERROR]"
  debug: "[DEBUG]"
  startup: "[STARTUP]"
  plugin: "[PLUGIN]"
  player: "[PLAYER]"
  world: "[WORLD]"
  command: "[COMMAND]"
  server: "[SERVER]"
  unknown: "[GENERAL]"

customRules:
  - name: "Hide keepalive noise"
    regex: ".*moved too quickly!.*"
    action: "hide"
    category: "player"
    color: "gray"

  - name: "Plugin errors"
    regex: ".*(Could not pass event|Error occurred while enabling|Exception in plugin).*"
    action: "rename"
    prefix: "[PLUGIN-ERROR]"
    category: "plugin"
    color: "red"

Commands​

• /consolebeautify reload - Reloads the configuration and reapplies console formatting.
• /consolebeautify status - Shows current plugin status and console hook information.

Permission​

• consolebeautify.admin - Allows access to reload and status commands. Default: OP.

Compatibility​

• Server software: Spigot.
• Java: Java 21 or newer.
• Target API: Spigot API 26.1.2-R0.1-SNAPSHOT.

Installation​

1. Download ConsoleBeautify.
2. Place the jar file inside your server plugins folder.
3. Restart your server.
4. Edit plugins/ConsoleBeautify/config.yml if needed.
5. Run /consolebeautify reload after configuration changes.

Important Notes​

• ConsoleBeautify formats the live server console.
• ConsoleBeautify does not modify latest.log by default.
• The plugin uses Bukkit STARTUP loading, the earliest loading phase available to normal plugins.
• A Bukkit/Spigot plugin cannot format the very first JVM/bootstrap lines because those are printed before plugins are loaded.