# Boerderij/Varken

Standalone application to aggregate data from the Plex ecosystem into InfluxDB using Grafana as a frontend

Repository: https://github.com/Boerderij/Varken
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/varken
Language: Python
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: influxdb, grafana, plex, docker, python, sickchill, varken, radarr, python-3, sonarr, sonarr3, plex-ecosystem, ombi, tautulli, unifi, worldmap, lidarr, grafana-dashboard, overseerr
Last push: 2024-08-07T17:03:12+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3126, "days_push": 756, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1176, forks 136 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:52.682339+00:00)

## What it is
Varken is a standalone Python application that aggregates data from Plex ecosystem tools (Sonarr, Radarr, Tautulli, Lidarr, Ombi, SickChill, UniFi) into InfluxDB. It uses Grafana dashboards as a frontend for visualizing media server activity, including geolocation world maps.

## Use cases
- monitor my plex server activity in grafana
- dashboard for sonarr radarr lidarr stats
- aggregate media server data into influxdb
- track plex streams with tautulli and grafana
- world map of plex stream locations
- self-hosted monitoring dashboard for *arr apps

## When to choose
- you run Plex with Sonarr/Radarr/Tautulli and want unified Grafana dashboards
- you already use InfluxDB 1.8.x and Grafana
- you want geolocation mapping of media streams

## When to avoid
- you use InfluxDB 2.x, which is not supported
- you don't use the Plex/*arr ecosystem
- you need actively developed features - the project is in maintenance mode

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: maintenance
- function: monitoring, data-visualization, analytics, etl
- domain: monitoring, self-hosted, media, data-visualization, analytics
- platform: python, self-hosted, cross-platform
- tags: plex, influxdb, grafana, sonarr, radarr, tautulli, lidarr, ombi, sickchill, unifi, overseerr, media-server-monitoring, dashboards, docker, linux

## Member repositories
- Boerderij/Varken (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:52.682339+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:26:19.046248+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Boerderij/Varken (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:52.682339+00:00, sha bc6a49165af8)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.