In a hackathon project aimed at enhancing Plex Media Server monitoring, a team of Grafana enthusiasts developed an open-source tool called "The Plexporters" to visualize server metrics. This initiative arose from the desire to understand content popularity, streaming times, and hardware stress levels while maintaining simplicity, unlike existing tools such as Tautulli. By exporting key metrics like play_seconds_total and plays_total into Prometheus, and utilizing Plex's websocket for real-time data, the team created dashboards that reveal insights about playback devices, content types, and transcoding issues. The project tackled challenges like high cardinality and sporadic media consumption patterns by dynamically managing metrics through the Prometheus Go Client library. Future enhancements include automatic server discovery, compatibility with other media servers, and additional dashboard features, encouraging community collaboration to extend its functionality.