---
type: reference
description: "Tautulli is the statistics, monitoring, and notification companion for"
tags:
  - dankserver
  - tautulli
timestamp: 2026-09-01
---

# Tautulli

Tautulli is the statistics, monitoring, and notification companion for
Plex Media Server. On Dankserver it runs as a **podman quadlet**
(`tautulli.service`) under the systemd **user** generator, generated from
`dankserver/tautulli/quadlet/tautulli.container` — migrated from the snap
(2026-09; the snap carried zero config, so the cutover was a fresh install).

**Host:** Dankserver — **Depends on:** [[Plex]] (it is pointless without
it; it talks to PMS over the appnet at `http://plex:32400`).

## Facts

| Item | Value |
|------|-------|
| Runtime | podman quadlet, `tautulli.service` (user manager) — migrated from snap `snap.tautulli.tautulli.service` |
| Image | `lscr.io/linuxserver/tautulli:v2.18.1-ls245` (pinned; verified == the ghcr `latest` manifest digest at pin time) |
| Data root | `/home/dank/Containers/tautulli` bind-mounted as `/config` (fresh at cutover — the snap's `/var/snap/tautulli/common` was empty) |
| Identity | fleet rootless model — container root maps to the `dank` user (1000:1000) |
| Port | `8181/tcp` published on `0.0.0.0` |
| Network | `dankserver_appnet`, alias `tautulli` |
| PMS URL | `http://plex:32400` — seeded into `config.ini` by the deployer on first start |
| Health | in-container `curl -fs http://localhost:8181/home` probe, 30 s interval / 3 retries |
| Deploy | `./scripts/deploy.sh dankserver --service tautulli` |
| Docs | https://github.com/Tautulli/Tautulli/wiki |

## What it buys this fleet

- Concurrent-stream dashboard and history: who is watching what, right now,
  on which client — the only tool that answers "is the CPU busy transcoding
  for someone?" without SSHing in.
- Notifications: library updates, download completions, player watch
  sessions — wire them to whatever notifier the fleet standardizes on
  (Discord/ntfy/Telegram are all one dropdown away).
- Health signal for the *arr stack downstream: completed downloads that
  never become plays, or streams failing at a fixed bitrate, show up here
  first.

## Gotchas

1. **Unauthenticated on the LAN.** `0.0.0.0:8181` with no auth wall —
   anyone on the LAN can read the whole watch history. Fine while LAN-only;
   if a public vhost is ever pointed at it, put the Authentik + Anubis
   chain in front first ([[Authentik]], [[Anubis]]).
2. **First boot shows the setup wizard** — expected pre-token behavior; the
   wizard also answers 200 on `/home`, so the health gate stays green before
   any token exists. Enter the PMS claim token through the web UI after
   cutover; it is stored inside the config bind, never in this repo.
3. **Snap-era paths are gone.** Logs and config live under the config bind
   (`/home/dank/Containers/tautulli/...`), not `/var/snap/tautulli/common` —
   Grafana/Loki log-shipping paths must account for it ([[Loki]], [[Alloy]]).
4. **Updates are commit-driven** — pin a new `-ls` tag in the unit file and
   redeploy; never run `:latest`.