Tautulli

Tautulli is a GUI where I can monitor Plex users. It provides useful information to me such as devices, transcodes, bandwidth, watch history, and IP addresses. Although this sounds kind of creepy in a sense, it is fairly important to a server administrator to know such things. Knowing the number of transcodes is very important because it determines how many people can watch at once. I share my server with about 10 other people, but it could not handle 10 people at once (depending on what they watch), so it is good to know if I am hitting that limit or not. Knowing watch history and IP is important because I can tell if users are sharing their accounts or not. I do not allow account sharing because, it puts further strain on my server’s resources if one user is watching two streams at once, and it just increases their usage which increases the chance of high number of people watching at the same time. As I have mentioned previously, there are obvious ways to hide location using a VPN or other means, but I assume my users do not do this and using an IP location finder, I can see if they are watching for themselves or sharing (example, if someone is watching in California, then five minutes later watching in Texas). Tautulli also provides a good GUI with some fun information as well. At the time, this is what my Tautulli looks like for the amount of content I own