plex-webhook-newrelic

Reports Plex events to New Relic

Setup

1. Create an insert key on New Relic (Account → API Keys → Create a key → Key type: "Ingest - License")

2. Run it where Plex can see it

   docker run \
     -d
     -e NEW_RELIC_INSERT_KEY
     -p 8080:8080 \
     ghcr.io/aelindeman/plex-webhook-newrelic:latest
   

3. Open Plex webhook settings, and add the webhook http://localhost:8080/webhook

Usage & example queries

Play a couple items in Plex, and query in New Relic

• All events:

  FROM PlexWebhookEvent SELECT *
  

• Play counts per media type:

  FROM PlexWebhookEvent SELECT count(*) WHERE event IN ('media.play') FACET metadata_section
  

• Most popular items:

  FROM PlexWebhookEvent SELECT count(*) WHERE event IN ('media.play') FACET metadata_grandparent_name, metadata_parent_name
  

• Heatmap of plays by day of the week and time:

  FROM PlexWebhookEvent SELECT histogram(numeric(capture(hourOf(timestamp), '^(?P<hour>[0-9]{2}):.+$')), 24, 12) FACET weekdayOf(timestamp) WHERE event IN ('media.play')
  

Development

• poetry
• click
• flask
• newrelic-telemetry-sdk-python

License

Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0