# How to Monitor a Plex Media Server with Prometheus, Grafana, and Exporters

DevFeed: [How to Monitor a Plex Media Server with Prometheus, Grafana, and Exporters](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/monitor-your-plex-server-like-a-pro-10606.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://technotim.com/posts/monitor-your-plex-server-like-a-pro/>)

Author: Techno Tim

Published: 2025-09-22T13:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Techno Tim](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/techno-tim.md>)

Topics: [Prometheus](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/prometheus.md>), [Grafana](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/grafana.md>), [Monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/monitoring.md>), [Docker Compose](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/docker-compose.md>), [dashboards](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/dashboards.md>), [Docker](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/docker.md>), [gpu monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/gpu-monitoring.md>), [GPU](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/gpu.md>)

Tags: [container](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/container.md>), [dashboards](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/dashboards.md>), [docker](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/docker.md>), [gpu](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gpu.md>), [gpu-monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gpu-monitoring.md>), [grafana](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/grafana.md>), [metrics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/metrics.md>), [monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/monitoring.md>), [plex](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/plex.md>), [prometheus](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/prometheus.md>), [self-hosted](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/self-hosted.md>)

## AI overview

A tutorial for monitoring a Plex media server with Prometheus, Grafana, Docker Compose, and exporters. The stack covers system metrics, GPU usage, disk health, container statistics, and Plex activity, with preconfigured Grafana dashboards.

## Source excerpt

Never have to wonder what's going on with your Plex server again. 📺 Watch Video Thanks to Plex for inviting me to Plex Pro Week 2025 and for sponsoring the video! Plex Monitoring Stack - Prometheus + Grafana This stack provides monitoring for a Plex media server using Prometheus, Grafana, and a set of exporters. It covers system metrics, GPU usage, disk health, container stats, and Plex a...