A game server and friend monitoring applet. Echelon is a Gnome panel applet which monitors a user supplied list of game servers. The primary purpose is to watch the servers for the presence of specified player names, but other server information such as server name, your ping, number of players, maximum number of players, and a list of current players with thier pings and scores are available and easy to access. We currently support many types of games, but plan on being able to support all games that are supported by qstat.