Rust player activity

How to tell when a Rust player is online

Where a player is right now, which hours they usually play, and when their whole squad is offline.

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Where this comes from

Every server connected to BattleMetrics records who joined and when they left. Those sessions are public: join time, leave time, server name. Everything else is built from them: the current server, usual hours and a shared schedule for several players.

Times are shown in your zone

The schedule is computed in your browser, in your time zone, and you can switch it. “Plays from 8 pm” means 8 pm for you, not for them.

ExampleThree players over one day: the shared quiet window stands out
Nobody online: 03:00 — 09:00

What you can find out

  • Where they are now

    If the player is online, the report shows which server they are on. If not, it shows where and when they were last seen.

  • When they usually play

    Sessions show which days and hours a player shows up. If there are fewer than five active days, or play is spread across the day with no steady window, we do not invent a habit and say plainly that there is none.

  • When the whole squad is offline

    Add up to eight SteamIDs to recon and it overlays their schedules. You get the hours when nobody is usually online. For a raid, that is the number that matters.

  • A message when they join

    With Pro you can track a player. The Telegram bot tells you when they join a server, leave, switch servers, change their name or get banned. The same events arrive in your Rust+ team chat.

Read nextRust player schedules: when the squad is onlineWhen each Rust player is online, when the whole squad is away and who plays with whom — from BattleMetrics sessions.

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