Varken VS Tautulli

Compare Varken vs Tautulli and see what are their differences.

Varken

Standalone application to aggregate data from the Plex ecosystem into InfluxDB using Grafana as a frontend (by Boerderij)

Tautulli

A Python based monitoring and tracking tool for Plex Media Server. (by Tautulli)
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Varken Tautulli
11 419
1,134 5,310
1.1% 1.5%
0.0 8.6
8 days ago 2 days ago
Python Python
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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Varken

Posts with mentions or reviews of Varken. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-28.

Tautulli

Posts with mentions or reviews of Tautulli. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-09.
  • I'm fine with the basics of Plex - now what can I do to really use plex to it's full potential?
    4 projects | /r/PleX | 9 Dec 2023
    With Tautulli you have a better monitoring system than what Plex offers. Streaming history split by user, you can add notifications to a lot of services like Slack, email and so on. You can even create newsletters being sent out to users based on what was added to your server.
  • My Overkill Home Network – Complete Details 2023
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Aug 2023
    > How hard is this to configure?

    Not at all. Just ensure that you have WoL enabled on the host machine and than proceed to send a magic packet. You could even do this with Home Assistant [1] if you are into that. I did this with a script that used tcpdump to monitor for incoming traffic [2] for Plex with an additional (dummy) Plex server on the Pi. I also remember faintly that I had to add 1 library and 1 video file to make this work though.

    Powering down - or sleep - is a bit harder. I built a 'Sleep on LAN' app [3] for myself years ago that could power down (or sleep) a system on demand using a REST API. I used this and Tautulli [3] with Home Assistant that would check if there were any active streams and if there wasn't any activity for a specified amount of time I would send a SoL request to my service.

    As you can see it isn't super hard or complicated, but a bit cumbersome to find all the moving bits and make it work. But when it does, it's IMHO fantastic.

    1. https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/wake_on_lan/

    2. https://gist.github.com/alex3305/8cc73ddd2c8ca6328f20235480a...

    2. https://github.com/alex3305/sleep-on-lan

    3. https://tautulli.com/

  • Can I copy the metadata from one show to another?
    3 projects | /r/PleX | 4 Jul 2023
    In that case then I don't think there will be an easy way to transfer the metadata unfortunately (outside of some user-created script). One option that would at least help with the manual re-entry would be to use Tautulli's export feature or WebTools-NG's ExportTools to create a spreadsheet that has all the information in one place, and should be easier to copy/paste.
  • Finding episodes with Multiple Languages
    2 projects | /r/PleX | 3 Jul 2023
  • Best programs to use alongside Plex?
    16 projects | /r/PleX | 4 Jun 2023
    Tautulli for monitoring and notifications, plus some scripts for "maintenance," such as killing 4K transcodes and stopping remote streams after they've been paused for X minutes. These are from the JBOPS repository.
  • Plex health check
    4 projects | /r/PleX | 26 May 2023
    Tautulli. There's a feature where you can trigger notifications from events on your server, not just when it's down. I'm not sure there's a function to get your server to auto restart though.
  • /r/Plex's Moronic Mondays' No Stupid Questions Thread - 2023-04-24
    2 projects | /r/PleX | 27 Apr 2023
    Unless someone has already created what you're looking for (JBOPS/reporting is a good initial place to look), you'll probably have to write something yourself that makes calls to Tautulli's API.
  • How to make a list of things in my library?
    3 projects | /r/PleX | 21 Apr 2023
    With Plex specifically, there are a few ways. The easiest options would be to use either Tautulli's export tool or WebTools-NG's ExportTools module.
  • Why does the low bitrate buffer, but not the higher bitrate?
    2 projects | /r/PleX | 5 Apr 2023
    Look into tautulli, it is a companion app for plex to get better stats. It can tell you what/how/when your friend was streaming because it keeps a better history than plex. https://tautulli.com/
    2 projects | /r/PleX | 5 Apr 2023
    What OS are you running plex on? here's the bare metal installer for windows and mac https://github.com/Tautulli/Tautulli/releases/tag/v2.12.2. If you're running inside docker, linuxserver's docker is pretty good.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Varken and Tautulli you can also consider the following projects:

discord-rich-presence-plex - Displays your Plex status on Discord using Rich Presence

Ombi - Want a Movie or TV Show on Plex/Emby/Jellyfin? Use Ombi!

overseerr - Request management and media discovery tool for the Plex ecosystem

Plex-scripts - Plex, the arr's and tautulli scripts coming from user requests

Plex-Trakt-Scrobbler - Add what you are watching on Plex to trakt.tv

Tdarr - Tdarr - Distributed transcode automation using FFmpeg/HandBrake + Audio/Video library analytics + video health checking (Windows, macOS, Linux & Docker)

Plex-Meta-Manager - Python script to update metadata information for items in plex as well as automatically build collections and playlists. The Wiki Documentation is linked below.

Jellyfin - The Free Software Media System

JBOPS - Just a Bunch Of Plex Scripts

plex-playlist-importer - A simple Mac/iOS/iPad app to create playlists from m3u directly to Plex Server

Sonarr - Smart PVR for newsgroup and bittorrent users.

ExportTools.bundle - Export tools for Plex