What is heliana
heliana is a Squad-first server administration platform. It gives you a live roster, player history, bans, roster groups, notes, and programmable automation — all in one dashboard built specifically for Squad.
The core difference: log parsing
Section titled “The core difference: log parsing”Most tools that integrate with Squad use only RCON. RCON is a remote console: it can show you who is on the server right now and let you run admin commands, but it has no visibility into what is actually happening in the game. There are no kills, no teamkills, no damage events, and no round outcomes in RCON. That data simply does not exist in the protocol.
heliana also connects to your server via SFTP and reads the Squad log file directly. The log is a complete, millisecond-accurate stream of every game event: every kill, wound, revive, teamkill, round start and end, tick-rate sample, and player connect with IP address. This is the same data that BattleMetrics cannot access for Squad, because BattleMetrics operates on RCON only.
That log connection is the foundation for everything that makes heliana useful:
- Live event feed — a real-time stream of game events as they happen, not a polled snapshot of server state.
- Player analytics — K/D, kills per minute, top weapons, revive counts, teamkill history — all derived from log events that RCON cannot provide.
- Event triggers — automated actions that fire on game events such as teamkills, chat messages, player joins, and round endings.
- Accurate sessions — join and leave times to the millisecond, not approximated from polling intervals.
- IP on connect — enables alternate-account detection, which RCON cannot provide at all.
How it compares to running BattleMetrics + SquadJS manually
Section titled “How it compares to running BattleMetrics + SquadJS manually”The common setup for Squad server owners is BattleMetrics for player tracking and banning, plus a self-hosted SquadJS instance for log-based automation. This works, but requires maintaining a Node.js server, writing or copying JavaScript plugins, and stitching two separate tools together with no shared UI.
heliana provides both capabilities — RCON management and log-based event processing — in a single hosted platform with no infrastructure to maintain. Connect your server once; heliana handles polling, parsing, and automation from there.
What you will set up
Section titled “What you will set up”This guide walks you through the complete first-time setup in five steps: