starcraft66/plex-data-collector-for-influxdb

Collects data about your Plex server and sends it to InfluxDB

Plex Data Collector For InfluxDB

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.

Configuration within config.ini

GENERAL

Key	Description
Delay	Delay between updating metrics
Output	Write console output while tool is running

INFLUXDB

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
Verify_SSL	Whether or not to verify the validity of the server's TLS certificate

PLEX

Key	Description
Username	Plex username
Password	Plex Password
Servers	A comma separated list of servers you wish to pull data from
TV_Libraries	A comma separated list of libraries containing TV shows
Verify_SSL	Whether or not to verify the validity of the server's TLS certificate

LOGGING

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
PrintThreshold	Any log messages with a log level greater than or equal to this number will also be printed to the console

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 to install the necessary requirements found in the requirements.txt file using pip.