Tracearr

Tracearr is a monitoring platform for Plex, Jellyfin, and Emby media servers. It provides a unified dashboard to track sessions in real time, analyze playback behavior, and detect suspicious account sharing across one or many servers.

Key Features

• Multi-server dashboard for Plex, Jellyfin, and Emby in a single interface
• Real-time session monitoring with complete history (user, device, IP/geolocation, time)
• Playback analytics including direct play vs transcode, bandwidth usage, codecs, resolutions, and quality metrics
• Stream map view to visualize where streams originate, with filtering by user/server/time
• Account-sharing detection rules (impossible travel, simultaneous locations, device velocity, concurrent streams, geo restrictions)
• User trust scoring based on rule violations
• Real-time alerts and notifications, including webhook-based integrations
• Import historical data from Tautulli and Jellystat

Use Cases

• Home media server admins monitoring usage across Plex, Jellyfin, and Emby
• Detecting and responding to credential sharing or suspicious streaming behavior
• Understanding transcoding load, bandwidth patterns, and client device compatibility

Limitations and Considerations

• Long retention and large histories are best supported with TimescaleDB; plain PostgreSQL may degrade over time for heavy analytics workloads
• Real-time session detection differs by platform (Plex can use server-sent events, while others may rely on polling)

Tracearr is well-suited for administrators who want unified visibility across multiple media servers, with both operational analytics and security-oriented sharing detection. It combines real-time monitoring with historical reporting to help keep streaming performance and access behavior under control.