So has anyone noticed all the cool stuff in the server dashboard (activity button)
I only stumbled across it when after I got a notification from r/plex
Kinda neat especially the real time bandwidth monitor.
I get it’s not anywhere close to Tautulli…but for those who don’t want to maintain a 3rd party tool, its pretty good.
As in the link. It’s currently only available via the webapp.
Have to say, I quite like it. In some ways, more than Tautilli.
Yeah kind of a Tautulli lite. 
And I can never have too many options for stats.
hello,
good job the developers I waited for this improvement with impatience but without hope.
great, just missing a small function to add the consomation cpu transcoding and it’s wonderful.
continue like this.
In another thread Elan has mentioned that this is only the beginning and other info will be added.
Have a question about the new bandwidth monitor.
A friend is streaming a movie that has a video bitrate of 2.5 Mbps (audio is 384 kbps), yet the bandwidth is (at times) hitting 5 or 6+. How is this possible? I assumed that the bitrate would be the amount of bandwidth that would be used. Is this incorrect?
Thanks
Best guess is that file at 2.5 Mbps is average bit rate (It’s usually the case).
It will go above and below that constantly.
Still dark scenes will use hardly and bit rate and fast moving scenes will go way above the average.
ok, thanks.
The files are getting chopped up into small chunks, which then get transfered to the client, one by one. During the transfer of such a chunk, the full available bandwidth is used.
So in the bandwidth graph, instead of a ‘line’, you will see often a succession of ‘peaks’.
Thanks Otto.
Another question/concern. In monitoring the bandwidth graph, I saw spikes that went up to over 30 Mbps. This happened with a movie with avg video bitrate of 2.5 Mpbs. Although it seemed to occur for only a matter of seconds at most, that’s huge spike considering what the avg bitrate was. The concern is that I don’t have that high of an upload speed (30 Mpbs is my limit for upload). Doesn’t that mean the stream would disconnect on remote users? I know that i’ve had multiple streamers on simultaneously in the past, but just concerned that something has change and I may not be able to share. Any insight you can provide is greatly appreciated.
The same as my previous answer. Totally fine and normal.
The data won’t move faster than what your internet upload speed is.
A short spike of 30mbps (particularly while a stream is started) is nothing to be concerned about.
Love the fact that we now have full analytics!! Great Job to the Plex Development Team!
However I seem to be having an issue where with any browser the page becomes unresponsive. Anyone else experiencing this?
Page immediately starts spiking my CPU usage to 100 Percent. Have tried this across multiple browsers & machines, all provide the same experience.
I can’t confirm that. Try deactivating browser add-ons etc. CPU load for the browser rarely scratches the 3% on my machine (if it only shows the dashboard and doesn’t play the video as well).
Got it thanks
I have the same issue, it is tied to the bandwidth graph.
Any word on a fix for that? I know it’s still early stages, in order for me to do anything in there i have to use the localhost version.
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