Plex Media Server silently crashing regularly

Plex Media Server
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Server Version#:1.43.1.10611
Player Version#: All

Hello all, Plex Media server running on Windows 11 Pro, and it crashes about once a day for no obvious reason. I find out that it’s down when I try to use any client app (iOS, another computer, doesn’t matter). I’ve been looking through my server logs but frankly this is my first Plex log dive so I’m not sure what I’m looking for, although I’ll continue looking. I can’t even provide an approximate time better than “in the last 24 hours” to narrow down where in the logs to look.

Plex Media Server Logs_2026-05-05_19-57-12.zip (4.0 MB)

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Seeing May 03, 2026 13:32:05.217 [2072] ERROR - Waited over 10 seconds for a busy database; giving up. would recommend https://github.com/ChuckPa/PlexDBRepair even if the database isnt damaged the optimization may fix your issue.

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Bueno, thank you. Might be good to move it to dedicated storage as well, That was on my to-do list and I need to stop procrastinating and migrate my instance.