Varys for Plex: Plex Server Monitoring on iOS
Varys is an iOS monitoring app for Plex Media Server, aimed at the person who runs the server rather than the people watching it.
The problem it solves
Plex’s own apps are built for watching. When you administer a server, the questions are different: what is streaming right now, is anything transcoding, which user is hammering the box, and is the library still healthy. Varys presents that operational view natively on a phone.
What it covers
Active sessions with playback and transcode details, server status, and library overviews. It reads from your Plex server directly rather than requiring a separate monitoring service.
Versus Tautulli
Tautulli remains the deeper tool: it keeps long-term history, generates statistics, and drives notifications, at the cost of running another service. Varys is lighter and needs nothing extra deployed, which suits people who want a quick health check rather than analytics.