Logs - Redutzu Docs

The MDT logs what officers do: incidents filed, warrants issued, evidence changed, charges given, and more. Every log goes to two places:

The Logs page inside the MDT, for officers with logs.view. It’s always on.
One outside service of your choice, set in Config.Logs.

Logs page listing recent officer activity — The Logs page in the MDT

Choose a service

config/config.lua

Config.Logs = {
    Enabled = true,
    Service = 'discord', -- 'discord', 'fivemanage', 'ox_lib' or 'file'
    Dataset = 'default', -- fivemanage only
    RetentionDays = 0,
}

Service	Where logs go	Setup
`'discord'`	Discord channels, as embeds	Webhooks in `credentials.lua`
`'fivemanage'`	Your Fivemanage dashboard, searchable	API key in `credentials.lua`
`'ox_lib'`	ox_lib’s logger (console, Fivemanage, Loki, Datadog)	Convars in `server.cfg`
`'file'`	`mdt-log-YYYY-MM-DD.log` in the resource folder	Nothing

Set Enabled = false to stop sending logs out. The Logs page keeps working.

Discord

Logs are split into categories. Each category can post to its own channel. Any category left nil posts to default.

Create webhooks

For each channel, open its settings, go to Integrations, then Webhooks, and click New Webhook. Copy the URL.

Add them to credentials.lua

config/credentials.lua

Config.Webhooks = {
    ['default'] = 'https://discord.com/api/webhooks/...',
    ['incidents'] = 'https://discord.com/api/webhooks/...',
    ['evidences'] = nil,
    ['warrants'] = nil,
    ['bolos'] = nil,
    ['citizens'] = nil,
    ['vehicles'] = nil,
    ['charges'] = nil,
    ['announcements'] = nil,
    ['images'] = nil
}

Select Discord

config/config.lua

Config.Logs = {
    Enabled = true,
    Service = 'discord',
    ...
}

MDT log embed in a Discord channel — A log posted to Discord

Add a Discord bot token as Config.ApiKeys.DiscordBotToken to show each officer’s real Discord avatar on the embeds. Without it, the MDT uses their Steam or Cfx.re avatar.

Discord allows about 30 messages a minute per webhook. The MDT queues logs and spaces them out, so nothing is lost on busy servers. Spreading categories across several webhooks makes them arrive faster.

Fivemanage

Fivemanage stores your logs in one searchable dashboard. If you already use it for media uploads, the same key works.

Add your key

config/credentials.lua

Config.ApiKeys = {
    Fivemanage = 'your-api-key',
    ...
}

Select Fivemanage

config/config.lua

Config.Logs = {
    Enabled = true,
    Service = 'fivemanage',
    Dataset = 'default',
    ...
}

Dataset is the Fivemanage dataset the logs are saved to. Use a separate one, such as 'mdt', to keep MDT logs apart from your other resources.

ox_lib

Sends every log through ox_lib’s logger. On its own, ox_lib only prints logs to the server console. To send them somewhere, add one of these sets of convars to server.cfg:

set ox:logger "fivemanage"
set fivemanage:key "your-api-key"

set ox:logger "loki"
set loki:user "your-user"
set loki:password "your-password"
set loki:endpoint "your-endpoint"

set ox:logger "datadog"
set datadog:key "your-api-key"
set datadog:site "datadoghq.com"

Use this service when your other resources already log through ox_lib and you want everything in one place.

File

Writes one plain-text file per day to the resource folder, such as mdt-log-2026-11-02.log. There’s nothing to set up.

mdt-log-2026-11-02.log

[2026-11-02 18:42:10] [SUCCESS] [incidents] John Doe (12) — Created incident #142

If nothing is written, check that the server can write to the resource folder. The console prints an error when it can’t.

Keep the Logs page small

The Logs page saves every entry in the mdt_logs table. On busy servers, set how many days to keep them:

config/config.lua

Config.Logs = {
    ...
    RetentionDays = 90, -- 0 = keep forever
}

This only cleans the MDT’s own table. Logs already sent to Discord, Fivemanage, ox_lib, or a file are never touched. You can also change it in /mdtadmin, under Records.

Send logs anywhere

Every log fires the redutzu-mdt:log:created server event. Listen to it to send logs to your own service.

server.lua

AddEventHandler('redutzu-mdt:log:created', function(entry)
    print(entry.action, entry.message)
end)

The adapters in server/custom/logs/ are complete examples.

​Choose a service

​Discord

​Fivemanage

​ox_lib

​File

​Keep the Logs page small

​Send logs anywhere

Choose a service

Discord

Fivemanage

ox_lib

File

Keep the Logs page small

Send logs anywhere