Raid Alerts
Detect join-rate spikes, alert your team and optionally raise the server's verification level to High until you lower it again.
Raid Alerts warns you the moment a join spike looks like a raid — dozens of accounts pouring in within seconds — before they start spamming.
Alpha — new; tell us if something looks off.
How it works
The bot counts how many members join each server inside a rolling window. When the count reaches your threshold within that window, it posts one 🚨 Possible raid detected alert (orange — it needs you) to the Raid alerts logging category. It fires once per wave (the window resets after an alert), so a real raid won't flood you with notifications. Tracking is per server — every server in your network is watched independently.
Settings
Enable Raid Alerts in the Plugin Market, then open Raid Alerts in the sidebar:
- Trigger threshold (joins) — how many joins within the window count as a spike (3–100). Default 10.
- Window (seconds) — the rolling time window joins are counted over (5–600). Default 60.
- Auto-lockdown — on a spike, raise the server's verification level to High. CloudMod never lowers it again by itself — you do that in Discord once the wave has passed. Needs the Manage Server permission (part of the current invite —
/checkpermsshows if an older invite lacks it). Without it, the alert notes that the lockdown failed.
Choosing a threshold
- Small / quiet servers: a low threshold (e.g. 5 joins in 30s) catches even a modest raid.
- Large / promoted servers: raise it (e.g. 20 joins in 60s) so a shout-out or a stream going live doesn't trip it.
Start loose, watch for a week, then tighten.
Where the alerts go
Alerts use the Raid alerts logging category. Route it to a channel your team watches on the Logging page — or hit Auto-create channels there to get a dedicated raid-alerts channel set up automatically.
- Raid alerts are posted to Discord only — they don't appear in the dashboard Audit Log.
- If you switch the Raid alerts category off, Auto-lockdown still happens, but no alert is posted.
Layer it with the rest
Raid Alerts is the early-warning layer. For full raid defense, combine it with the account-age filter (gates brand-new accounts), Scam Guard (behavioural anti-raid), the honeypot (traps auto-posting bots) and network-wide bans (one ban across every server).