Most Discord raids share one tell: a sudden flood of joins. Where a healthy server sees a member trickle in every few minutes, a raid drops ten, twenty, fifty accounts into the gate in seconds — usually right before they start spamming. Raid Alerts is built to notice that spike and get your team looking before the first message lands.
What it does
Raid Alerts tracks how many members join each server inside a rolling time window. When the count crosses your threshold — say 10 joins in 60 seconds — it fires a single alert to your log channel with the numbers behind it. One alert per wave, not one per join, so a real raid doesn't bury you in notifications.
It runs per server, so every server in your network gets its own watch — the main server and each sub-server independently.
Optional auto-lockdown
Detection buys you seconds; a lockdown buys you the rest. Turn on auto-lockdown and, on a spike, CloudMod raises the server's verification level to High — new accounts without a verified phone can't post — until you lift it. It's a best-effort action: if the bot is missing the Manage Server permission, the alert says so instead of failing silently, so you always know whether the gate actually dropped.
Tuning the threshold
The right numbers depend on your size:
- Small/quiet servers — a low threshold (e.g. 5 joins in 30s) catches even a modest raid; organic joins rarely cluster.
- Large or frequently-promoted servers — raise it (e.g. 20 joins in 60s) so a shout-out or a stream going live doesn't trip it.
Start a little loose, watch the alerts for a week, and tighten from there. The window and threshold both live on the plugin's settings page.
Where it fits
Raid Alerts is the early-warning layer. Pair it with the rest of CloudMod's raid defense for depth:
- Account-age filter — gates brand-new throwaway accounts on join.
- Scam Guard — behavioural anti-raid for compromised accounts that mass-mention or flood channels.
- Honeypot — a trap channel that auto-actions the bots which post everywhere.
- Network-wide bans — once you've dealt with a raider, the ban applies across every server in your network at once.
Detection tells you it's happening, the age filter and Scam Guard blunt it, and cross-server bans make sure the same accounts can't just hop to your next server.
Turn it on
Enable Raid Alerts on the Plugins page, set your threshold and window, decide whether to auto-lock, and route the Raid alerts logging category to whichever channel your team watches (the one-click "auto-create channels" button on the Logging page sets up a dedicated raid-alerts channel for you). From then on, the first sign of a raid is a ping to your mods — not a wall of spam to your members.