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FiveGateway vs Electron Services: different tools, same server
TL;DR
- Electron Services is primarily a FiveM anticheat with admin tools to manage it.
- FiveGateway is a server management and observability platform.
- Most serious servers benefit from running both.
What each product actually is
Electron Services
Electron Services is the FiveM anticheat. That is the product: live cheat detection, a cloud admin panel built around it, a cross-server player lookup that spans every server running Electron, the ability to watch multiple players' screens at the same time, and full gameplay session replay.
Electron has been on the market since 2023 and is active on more than 6200 FiveM servers. If you are evaluating FiveM anticheats, Electron is the category leader and the place most evaluations start.
FiveGateway
FiveGateway is a premium server management and observability platform. The product is structured logging with custom categories and typed fields, time-series statistics for CPU, memory, network, tickrate, ping, and player counts, a queue with priority slots, moderation (bans, warnings, whitelist), and Discord bot and OAuth integration.
FiveGateway does not do cheat detection. It does not fingerprint cheats across servers or maintain a cheater database. Its job is to tell you what happened on your server operationally, chart how the server performed over time, and automate the workflows your staff repeats every week.
Where they overlap
The honest overlap is narrower than the marketing language on either side might suggest. Three places where the products do similar things:
Web dashboard
Both ship a browser-based admin panel for staff. The dashboards cover different workflows, but both exist and both are usable from any device with no install on the moderator's end.
Player management and admin tools
Both can show connected players, apply bans or warnings, and track moderation history. Electron's player view is shaped by anticheat evidence; FiveGateway's is shaped by operational audit trails and structured log history.
Notifications
Both can push events to Discord. Electron routes detection alerts out of its anticheat engine. FiveGateway routes log events per category, with severity filters, reliable retries, and support for Slack or custom endpoints.
Where they differ
| Aspect | Electron Services | FiveGateway |
|---|---|---|
| Primary category | FiveM anticheat | Server management & observability |
| Cheat detection | Yes, core product | No |
| Screen watching | Yes | No |
| Gameplay replays | Yes | No |
| Cross-server player intel | Yes (all Electron servers) | Planned (behavioral, not cheat-focused) |
| Structured logging with custom categories | Basic | Core feature |
| Time-series performance dashboards | Basic | Core feature (CPU, mem, net, tickrate, ping) |
| Webhook notifications | Yes | Yes, per-category customizable |
| txAdmin integration | N/A | Yes |
| Discord bot | Limited | Yes |
| FiveM resource for live data | Yes (for AC) | Yes (for metrics/events) |
When to pick which, or both
Pick Electron Services if
- Your main problem is cheaters, modded clients, or Lua injectors; you need detection with evidence, not just operational logs.
- You want cross-server player intelligence from the Electron network so Steam IDs that are known-bad elsewhere arrive on your server with context.
- You need screen-watch or full gameplay session replay as part of your moderation workflow.
- You want an in-game admin menu wired directly into anticheat detections.
Pick FiveGateway if
- Your main problem is visibility; you need structured, searchable logs that tell you who did what and when, long after the event.
- You need real time-series performance data: CPU, memory, network, tickrate, ping, and player counts charted across days or weeks, with CSV export.
- You need to automate recurring staff workflows (ban-after-N-warnings, whitelist-on-donation, auto-restart on tick drop) without writing Lua.
- You already run txAdmin and want a web layer for player history, structured logs, and per-category webhooks that txAdmin does not provide natively.
Run both if
- You operate a serious roleplay or competitive server with both security concerns and operational maturity concerns.
- The two do not conflict. Their FiveM resources target different hooks: Electron watches client-side and native integrity; FiveGateway streams structured events and metrics for the dashboard.
- A typical stack on a mature server is txAdmin for process control, Electron Services for anticheat, and FiveGateway for observability and workflow automation.
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