streaming video metrics

[Les Mikesell]

Rick Stevens wrote:
> 
> There's no simple way to track "views" of a stream other than parsing
> the log files from the server and tracking them that way.  You must look
> for (at least) start events, stop events, pause events, and resume
> events with the same session ID.  You can compute the view time from
> those.  It ain't easy.  We process literally millions of log events
> every day.
> 
> As far as bandwidth, you can use the log entries (doesn't generally
> cover the overhead--only the active streams), RRD/Cacti, or if you use
> Cisco gear, Netflow (you'll have to write programs to analyze that).

Ntop/nprobe might be good for this: http://www.ntop.org/nProbe.html

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   Les Mikesell
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