The HIVE Real-Time Dashboard provides a variety of useful statistics for network managers & others responsible for the broadcast:

The HIVE Real-Time Dashboard includes the following graphs:

• Viewers: The number of unique viewers watching the event over time, divided in viewers using HIVE distribution and viewers not using HIVE.

• Savings: The amount and percentage of data transfer saved by using the Hive Client compared to a conventional setup. NOTE: Hive Insights Only customers will not see savings reported because their service is limited to statistics only.

• Buffering Severity. The number and duration of buffering experienced by the viewer per 30-second snapshot. Note that viewers have an initial expected buffering when starting a video.

• Requests per bitrate summary: the amount of viewers streaming at each video bitrate.

• Savings Summary: the amount and percentage of data transfer saved by using the Hive Client compared to a conventional streaming setup. NOTE: Hive Insights Only customers will not see savings reported because their service is limited to statistics only.

• Buffering Severity Summary: Summary of all buffering, calculated per 30-second snapshot.

• Requests per bitrate: the distribution of unique Agents streaming at a given bitrate over time.

• Source requests: the amount of requests per second made against the CDN (Content Delivery Network) or video source to download the original video content.

• P2P traffic type: the distribution of Hive Clients’ P2P traffic types over time. Keeping the traffic local will reduce stress on the enterprise network. Subnet traffic is preferred, followed by Site and Site-to-Site.

Click on the HIVE Insights link in the upper-right corner of the page to load the related HIVE Insights report.