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Josh Wright 6fa246d3c4 Rework alert cooldown model
Content alerts (unfulfilled, pending, tautulli-no-matches) now have
zero cooldown on manual close — they reopen immediately on the next
refresh if the condition still exists. Closing is an acknowledgment
of the current state, not a suppression of future alerts.

User-behavior alerts (ghost, watchrate) keep a cooldown (7 days) so
a single manual close isn't immediately undone by the next refresh.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-12 11:38:05 -04:00

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# OverSnitch
A self-hosted dashboard for monitoring Overseerr/Jellyseerr users — who's requesting, how much storage they're consuming, how often they actually watch what they request, and whether anything needs your attention.
Built with Next.js 16, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS.
---
## Features
- **Leaderboard** — per-user request count, total storage, average GB per request, and optional Tautulli watch stats (plays, watch hours), each ranked against the full userbase
- **Alerting** — automatic alerts for stalled downloads, neglected requesters, and abusive patterns, with open/close state, notes, and auto-resolve when conditions clear
- **SWR caching** — stats are cached server-side for 5 minutes and seeded from localStorage on the client, so the dashboard is instant on return visits
---
## Setup
### 1. Clone and install
```bash
git clone https://gitea.thewrightserver.net/josh/OverSnitch.git
cd OverSnitch
npm install
```
### 2. Configure environment
Create `.env.local` in the project root:
```env
# Required
SEERR_URL=http://overseerr:5055
SEERR_API=your_overseerr_api_key
RADARR_URL=http://radarr:7878
RADARR_API=your_radarr_api_key
SONARR_URL=http://sonarr:8989
SONARR_API=your_sonarr_api_key
# Optional — enables watch time stats and ghost/watch-rate alerts
TAUTULLI_URL=http://tautulli:8181
TAUTULLI_API=your_tautulli_api_key
# Optional — if your services use self-signed certs
# NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED=0
```
### 3. Run
```bash
npm run dev # development
npm run build && npm start # production
```
---
## Alerts
Alerts are generated on every stats refresh and persisted in `data/alerts.json` (gitignored). They have two states — **Open** and **Closed** — and can be manually closed with a per-category cooldown, or auto-resolved when the underlying condition clears.
### Content alerts
These are keyed per piece of media, not per user. If multiple users requested the same item they're grouped into a single alert.
---
#### Not Downloaded
> A movie or TV show was approved but no file exists in Radarr/Sonarr.
| Parameter | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `UNFULFILLED_MIN_AGE_HOURS` | `12` | Hours since approval before alerting. Prevents noise on brand-new requests. |
- Skipped if Radarr reports `isAvailable: false` (unreleased) or Sonarr reports `status: "upcoming"`.
- **Auto-resolves** when the file appears.
- Manual close: no cooldown — reopens on the next refresh if the file still isn't there.
---
#### Incomplete Download
> An ended TV series is missing one or more episodes.
| Parameter | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `UNFULFILLED_MIN_AGE_HOURS` | `12` | Hours since approval before alerting. |
| Completion threshold | `100%` | Any missing episode on a finished series triggers this alert. |
- Only fires for series with `status: "ended"` in Sonarr. Continuing shows are excluded because missing episodes may not have aired yet.
- Completion is calculated as `episodeFileCount / totalEpisodeCount` (not Sonarr's `percentOfEpisodes`, which measures against monitored episodes only).
- **Auto-resolves** when all episodes are on disk.
- Manual close: no cooldown — reopens on the next refresh if episodes are still missing.
---
#### Pending Approval
> A request has been sitting unapproved for too long.
| Parameter | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `PENDING_MIN_AGE_DAYS` | `2` | Days a request must be pending before alerting. |
- One alert per request item, not per user.
- Skipped if the content is unreleased.
- **Auto-resolves** when the request is approved or declined.
- Manual close: no cooldown — reopens on the next refresh if still pending.
---
### User behavior alerts
These fire once per user. Ghost Requester takes priority over Low Watch Rate — a user will only ever have one behavior alert open at a time. Both require the user to be "established" (at least one request older than `USER_MIN_AGE_DAYS`) to avoid flagging new users.
> Requires Tautulli to be configured.
| Parameter | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `USER_MIN_AGE_DAYS` | `14` | Days since oldest request before a user is eligible for behavior alerts. |
---
#### Ghost Requester
> A user hasn't watched anything on Plex since before their last N approved requests were made.
Rather than checking lifetime play counts, this looks at recency: if a user's last Plex activity predates all of their most recent N approved requests, they're not watching what they're requesting.
| Parameter | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `GHOST_RECENT_REQUESTS` | `5` | Number of recent approved requests to evaluate. Also the minimum required before the alert can fire. |
- Manual close cooldown: **7 days**.
---
#### Low Watch Rate
> A user watches a small fraction of what they request.
| Parameter | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `MIN_REQUESTS_WATCHRATE` | `10` | Minimum requests before the ratio is considered meaningful. |
| `LOW_WATCH_RATE` | `0.2` | Ratio of `plays / requests` below which an alert fires (default: under 20%). |
- Manual close cooldown: **7 days**.
---
### System alerts
#### No Tautulli Watch Data
> Tautulli is configured but no plays matched any Overseerr user.
This usually means emails don't align between the two services. Check that users have the same email address in both Overseerr and Tautulli (or that display names match as a fallback).
- Manual close: no cooldown.
---
## Alert lifecycle
```
Condition detected
[OPEN] ◄──────────────────────────────────────┐
│ │
┌────┴───────────────┐ Cooldown │
│ │ expires │
▼ ▼ │
Condition Manually │
clears closed │
│ │ │
▼ ▼ │
[AUTO-RESOLVED] [CLOSED] ──── Condition ────────┘
no cooldown cooldown returns after
reopens suppresses cooldown
immediately re-open
```
- **Auto-resolved** alerts reopen immediately if the condition returns.
- **Content alerts** (unfulfilled, pending) have no cooldown on manual close — they reopen on the next refresh if the condition still exists. Closing is an acknowledgment, not a suppression.
- **User-behavior alerts** (ghost, watchrate) suppress re-opening for 7 days after a manual close.
- Reopening a manually closed alert via the UI always clears the cooldown immediately.