Tracearr compared
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Tracearr vs Tautulli
PLEX ONLY
The long-standing Plex monitor. One instance watches one Plex server, and it has no Jellyfin or Emby support of any kind.
Read the comparisonTracearr vs Jellystat
JELLYFIN OR EMBY
Statistics for one Jellyfin or Emby server, picked by a setting at startup. No Plex, no sharing detection, and it never sends a command back to the server.
Read the comparisonTracearr vs Streamystats
JELLYFIN ONLY
Charts, watchlists, and anomaly flags for Jellyfin. It detects impossible travel but cannot act on it, and it sends no notifications anywhere.
Read the comparisonWhat to compare on
- How many servers it watches
- Most tools are built against one server API. If you run a mix of Plex, Jellyfin, and Emby, that decides the question before any feature does.
- What happens when sharing is detected
- Sending a notification and acting on one are different products. Check whether the tool can stop the stream itself or whether that is a script you have to write and maintain.
- Whether your history comes with you
- Switching servers usually means starting from zero. Check which history sources a tool can read, and whether it can put two accounts under one person afterwards.
- How it holds up as history grows
- A few thousand sessions hides a lot. Check how history pages are queried and whether summary figures are precomputed or recalculated on every request.