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Custom Reports

Media Portal can not only show your CDN usage data, it also has the capability to create custom reports of your CDN usage, and schedule reports to run and be emailed to you. You can also view scheduled reports in Media Portal, edit a scheduled report if you need to make changes to the frequency or recipients, delete scheduled reports you no longer need, or manually trigger a report to run off schedule.

 

Please note that usage data for Custom reports are not updated continuously. Some usage data is updated throughout the day while other data is only updated once a day. The following table show the update frequency and the latency for the update to be reflected in the report.

Data

Updated

Latency

Property

Hourly

2–4 hours

Access group / SCID

End of day (23:59 UTC)

Complete about 8:00am UTC the next day

2- or 3-day-old late-arriving data

Added to end of day

Until about 8:00am UTC the next day

Month-end data

Monthly

About 8:00am UTC on the first day of the month

To access your CDN usage reports, sign into Media Portal and navigate to Reports > CDN Usage Reports to open the “Usage Reports menu”.

Creating and Scheduling a Custom Report

On the “Usage Reports menu”, Media Portal displays caching, cache-fill traffic, and Origin Storage (if applicable) usage data for the past 30 days. Here, Media Portal displays data for all your services by default, but you can customize the report by:

 

  • Changing the product you’re viewing the data for (e.g.: view only caching data).

     

  • Adjusting the date range, units, and the report view (e.g.: you can view the data per SCID or access group, and as charted data, tabulated data, or a combination).

     

After you have customized the report to your liking, you can use the “Export Results” button to download the report as a .csv file. You can also export the report by email, using the “Email Results” button. You can either email the report only once, or you can schedule the CDN usage report by selecting the “Schedule” radio button and defining the data options, frequency, and the email address.

 

The following metrics are made available to you in the Scheduled reports:

95th Percentile

To calculate the Mbps 95th percentile, each five-minute segment for all properties in a SCID or master SCID are totaled, sorted into volume order (descending ), and the top five percent of the properties are deleted. 95th Percentile is only displayed for reports filtered for the current or past months.

Volume (GB)

Shows total global volume and volume in the four global regions. Volume is the amount of content delivered to requestors, measured in GB, and is total volume delivered for the time period you selected. Caching data is collected in log files in five-minute samples for each property, metropolitan area, and region. The data collected is edge-server volume, origin-traffic volume, requests, and throughput/bandwidth.

Throughput

Aggregate bandwidth for the content delivered across the CDN, measured in Mbps, and is the amount of data delivered, divided by the time period you selected.

A Peak

The highest five-minute sample in time period you selected.

An Average

Total of all of the samples in the time period you selected, divided by the number of samples (one in five minutes, 12 in an hour, 288 in a day, and 8,640 in a month.

Total Usage

All traffic for the SCID.

Usage Above Base—

Shows any traffic above the committed data rate (CDR). If you don't have a CDR agreement, Media portal display all traffic above base.

Cache efficiency

The ratio of requests delivered from the edge server to the origin storage server: (total request traffic - fill traffic) / total request traffic.

Requests

The total number of times resources were requested in the sampled data, with no conversion.

Peak Requests/Sec

The highest rate of requests for time period you selected.

Managing Scheduled Reports

After you schedule a report, you can edit the report to change the report frequency, recipients, message (if any), and who the report is visible to. If you no longer need the report, you can delete it. You can also trigger the report to run immediately if you need to view the data before the report is scheduled to run again. To manage your scheduled reports, navigate to  “Usage Reports menu” and Media Portal will list the scheduled reports for your organization.

 

From this scheduled reports page, you can edit a scheduled CDN usage report by clicking on the report of your interest and selecting “Edit Report”. You can now modify which access groups the report is visible to, the frequency of the report and the email recipient(s) and save your changes.

 

You can also delete a scheduled CDN usage report you no longer require by clicking on the report’s name on the Scheduled Reports page and choosing “Delete Report”.

 

If you want to view the data for a scheduled CDN usage report without waiting for the report to run on its normal frequency, you can manually trigger the CDN usage report to run by clicking on the report’s name on the Scheduled Reports page and choosing “Run Now”. Media Portal will then run the scheduled report and send it to the email recipient(s) defined.