This is a tool for collecting some basic info about your Plex server and sending it to InfluxDB. This is ideal for displaying Plex specific information in a tool such as Grafana.
| Key | Description |
|---|---|
| Delay | Delay between updating metrics |
| Output | Write console output while tool is running |
| Key | Description |
|---|---|
| Address | Delay between updating metrics |
| Port | InfluxDB port to connect to. 8086 in most cases |
| Database | Database to write collected stats to |
| Username | User that has access to the database |
| Password | Password for above user |
| Key | Description |
|---|---|
| Username | Plex username |
| Password | Plex Password |
| Servers | A comma separated list of servers you wish to pull data from. |
| Key | Description |
|---|---|
| Enable | Output logging messages to provided log file |
| Level | Minimum type of message to log. Valid options are: critical, error, warning, info, debug |
| LogFile | File to log messages to. Can be relative or absolute path |
| CensorLogs | Censor certain things like server names and IP addresses from logs |
Usage
Enter your desired information in config.ini and run plexInfluxdbCollector.py
Optionally, you can specify the --config argument to load the config file from a different location.
Requirements
Python 3+
You will need the influxdb library installed to use this - Found Here