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June 2, 2010
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How to find metrics for live streams?

  • June 2, 2010
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Hi there,

We have installed FMS and have used it for a live streaming video event.  The event lasted an hour and FMS worked great.

How can I get statistics on that live stream?  I'd like to know how many people saw the video, and how many people were watching at one time.

Can you please tell me where to find this?

Thanks

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    June 3, 2010

    One way to check this is to use the FMS logs. The access logs in <FMS install>/logs folder contains all such information regarding events with time. With default logger configuration it records only certain events like connect, disconnect, etc.  and fields related to them. To enable more logging make changes to the following tags in conf/Logger.xml

    tag 1. Modify <Events> value under <access>. The value of this tag controls which events will be logged in access.00.log. Select the ones which you need. The information of all events have been provided.

    tag2: <Fields> under <access> Similarly you can configure what fields you want to be logged for each event.

    I understand this is not very straight forward as this log may get very large. So you may also consider using file parsers which may be available and use them to parse this file.

    Another way is to use admin API commands. You can check the list of admin APIs listed in FMS documentation. These APIs may give you some information too and you can use the most suitable ones for your purpose.

    Thanks,

    Abhishek