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- CDN Analytics for Video Delivery
CDN Analytics for Video, Built Into Your Admin
Track the bandwidth and requests your CDN serves, your cache hit rate, origin traffic and response time, data-centre distribution and failed requests, in one admin screen.
What CDN Analytics Shows About Your Video Delivery
CDN analytics for video tells you how well your content delivery network is getting your streams to viewers. In Vodlix it is a screen in your admin, under Stats & Report, so there is no separate CDN console to log in to. It shows the bandwidth and requests your CDN served, how much of that came from cache, how much traffic went back to your origin storage and how quickly the origin answered, which data centres carried the load, and how many requests failed. Operations teams use it to spot delivery problems early, finance teams to see what drives bandwidth, and engineering leads to check that the cache is doing its job.
Served, cached and uncached.
Origin traffic and response time.
Data centres and failed requests.
What Your CDN Numbers Mean for Viewers
Every number on the CDN analytics screen is about one thing: whether a viewer who presses play gets a fast start and smooth playback. A high cache hit rate means video segments come from a data centre near the viewer instead of travelling back to your storage. A low origin response time means the first seconds of a new title load quickly. Few failed requests mean fewer stalls and error screens. Every quality the player offers, from 360p up to 4K, travels through the same network, so these figures cover all of it. When they are healthy, viewers simply see the video start and keep playing.
Track the Video Bandwidth Your CDN Serves
The Bandwidth Served chart shows how much video data your CDN delivered, day by day or hour by hour, over the last 7, 15 or 30 days, this week, this month or last month. Above the chart you see the total, the cached share, the uncached share and the daily average, so a premiere weekend or a viral title stands out at once. Finance teams can match the curve to the bandwidth allowance on their plan, and operations teams can see when demand peaks. Compare it with your plan's allowance on Space & Bandwidth Details.
See Requests Served and Your CDN Cache Hit Rate
Requests Served counts how many times pieces of your video were fetched from the CDN, split into cached and uncached requests. One play is many requests, because a stream is delivered in short segments, so this is a delivery figure rather than a view count. Your cache hit rate is a headline figure at the top of the screen: the share of traffic answered from copies already near viewers. A high rate means faster starts and lower delivery cost, and a short dip after you publish new titles is normal while the cache warms up.
Monitor Origin Traffic and Origin Response Time
Origin traffic is the video your CDN had to fetch from your main storage because no nearby copy existed yet, and origin response time is how quickly that storage answered, in milliseconds. The two charts sit side by side, each with its average for the period. Rising origin traffic usually means a lot of new or rarely watched content is being played, and a slower response time means the first seconds of those plays take longer to load. Watching the two together tells engineering leads whether a slow start is a cache problem or a storage problem.
See Which CDN Data Centres Serve Your Viewers
The data-centre traffic distribution shows how much of your video was delivered from each CDN location, such as Frankfurt, New York or Singapore, with its share of the total. It is a quick picture of where your audience really watches, without opening your viewer reports. A growing share in a new region shows a market taking off, and it helps you plan launches, pricing and support hours around the places your viewers actually are. For what your platform delivers from, see Global CDN.
Catch Failed Video Requests Before Viewers Complain
The Non 2xx Requests Served chart counts every request your CDN did not answer with a normal success response, split by type: 3xx redirects, 4xx requests for files that are missing or not allowed, and 5xx server errors. The Errors figure at the top of the screen adds up the 4xx and 5xx requests, the ones that really failed. A few are normal on any busy service. A growing 4xx or 5xx count usually means missing files or an origin that is struggling, and viewers feel it as videos that will not start. Check it for the same dates as bandwidth and origin response time to see whether errors rose with traffic or on their own.
CDN Analytics Alongside Your Other Streaming Reports
CDN analytics tells you how well the network served your viewers; your viewing reports tell you what those viewers watched. Use Reports & Analytics for views, watch time and top titles, and keep CDN analytics for delivery volume, speed and errors. Space & Bandwidth Details shows the bandwidth and storage allowance on your plan, and Global CDN explains the delivery network behind every number on this screen.
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