The Content Publisher Dashboard provides an aggregated view of traffic and performance data across all selected delivery services and service providers.
The displayed metrics are aggregated values representing all selected service providers and delivery services. To view distribution or compare the performance of specific service providers or delivery services, use the Delivery Service Dashboard.
Note that the focus of the Content Publisher Dashboard is egress traffic. While two of the graphs, Volume Distribution and Bandwidth allow toggling between egress traffic and origin traffic, all other metrics displayed in this dashboard represent egress traffic only.
Display the Dashboard
To display the dashboard, select Content Publisher Dashboard from the navigation panel.
Customize the Report
You can configure the dashboard to focus on the data of interest, using the Customize Report feature.
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To open the Customize Report panel, select Customize Report at the top of the page.
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Optionally, set the date range. The date range determines the granularity of the data displayed in the dashboard. For example, when the date range is 24 hours, the metrics are calculated and displayed in the graphs, based on 5-minute increments. When the data range is 7 days, the metrics are calculated and displayed in the graphs, based on 30-minute increments.
Note that the peak values displayed in both the Executive Summary and in the graphs are always calculated based on 5-minute intervals, even if the data points on a graph represent longer intervals. Learn more about peak values. -
Optionally, add filters to focus selected Content Publishers, Service Providers, and/or Delivery Services.
- Content Publishers - Select one or more content publishers. (This filter is enabled only if you have access to data for multiple content publishers.)
- Service Provider - Select one or more service providers. The list includes all the ISPs that have served your content within the past year. (If a Content Publishers filter is set, the list is limited to the ISPs that have served content to any of the selected content publishers within the past year.)
- Delivery Service - Select one or more delivery services.
In this example, the dashboard is configured to focus on the volume and performance metrics for all the Content Publisher's traffic delegated to the selected service provider's network in the past 24 hours.
Use the Filter Management area to change the filter settings to shift focus. For example:
- To further narrow the focus to a specific traffic type, select the relevant delivery services.
- To view data related to that traffic type across all service providers, choose All Items from the Service Provider menu.
Time Zone
By default, the report defaults to the user's local browser time zone. You may select a different time zone.
Learn how the time zone impacts the data display.
Executive Summary
The Executive Summary at the top of the dashboard displays the key performance metrics that reflect the applied report filters. These metrics represent egress traffic only.
- Bandwidth Peak - The highest amount of data transferred in a single time increment during the time period, measured in bits per second of consumed bandwidth.
- BW 95th Percentile - The average amount of data transferred per time increment, calculated after removing the top 5% of the data set (measured in bits per second of consumed bandwidth).
- Volume - The total amount of data served from the cache over the time period.
- Average Bitrate - The average bitrate of individual HTTP transactions (not entire download sessions) over the time period. This metric is calculated as the sum of bytes served, divided by the sum of transaction duration.
- Average Requests Hit Ratio - The average percent of all requests that were served directly from the cache per time increment. Note that large transactions could affect the hit ratio percentage. See Hit Ratio Graph for additional information.
- 2xx Transactions - The total number of transactions that returned success response codes.
Learn how the metrics are calculated.
Graphs
The graphs provide a visual representation of the metrics.
The Volume Distribution graph displays:
- Egress Traffic: The volume of data transferred directly from cache.
- Origin Traffic: The volume of data proxied from the origin.
Egress and origin traffic are two separate metrics and should not be considered as one being a subset of the other. Factors like compression, which may be configured differently for egress and origin traffic, can influence traffic and performance measurements. To analyze origin metrics, use the origin report.
Note: Each percentage is relative to a total of 100% across all delivery services.
Other graphs include:
Bandwidth Graph
Average Streamed Bitrate Graph
Cache Efficiency Graph
Request Hit Ratio Graph
HTTP Response Code Graph
Response Breakdown Graph
Export Data
You can export all or selected portions of the data displayed in the report.
To export selected report data:
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Configure the dashboard, so that the data of interest is displayed.
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Select the Export icon.
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In the Export dialog, select the metrics of interest.
Note: A summary of the report scope is displayed at the top of the dialog.
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Optionally, enable any of these features:
- Enable 5-minute granularity - By default, data points are exported based on the time-interval shown in the graphs (5 minutes, 15 minutes, 1 hour, 4 hours, or 1 day). Enable this option to export data points per 5-minute interval, regardless of the interval shown in the graphs.
- Include breakdown - By default, data for all Content Providers (CPs) and Service Providers (ISPs) is aggregated into a single line per data point.
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Enable this option to break down the metric per CP and ISP combination.
For example:
Note: These features may significantly increase the export time.
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Select Export XLS File. An Excel file is created, with one sheet per selected metric.