Overview

Lack of visibility into how your content is being delivered, through networks you don’t
control, in regions you are not located, to devices and viewers you don’t manage is a major challenge for modern OTT streaming services. Live ABR Monitor helps solve this challenge by seamlessly integrating state-of-the-art monitoring solutions from Telestream into a globally distributed, multicloud-enabled service.

Live ABR Monitor is a Telestream Cloud service that enables robust OTT Stream monitoring that is spun up on demand in almost any location around the globe. Live ABR Monitor measures stream performance, across multiple geographic regions with actionable insights delivered in realtime!

Live ABR Monitor primarily focuses on measuring the performance at the CDN edge; providing delivery performance, asset availability and video impairment analysis.

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Live ABR Monitor at a Glance

What is Live ABR Monitor

  • Over 70 global monitoring points-of-presence available, with plans to add more.
  • Unrivaled real-time measurement of your live OTT channels.
  • No-compromise access to a full suite of network Quality of Service (QOS) and
    stream quality Quality of Experience (QoE) Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that
    provide the most in-depth analysis of streaming performance.
  • Single-pane view of how each variant is playing in every region.
  • Content-optimized alarm templates and programmatic alert notifications deliver
    live actionable intelligence.
  • Create real-time comparisons of CDN partner performance by region and stream.
  • Test content origin and CDN edge locations to trace delivery challenges to specific
    points in the network.

What can Live ABR Monitor tell you?
By leveraging the depth of capabilities available within Telestream solutions, Live ABR Monitor provides a depth of analysis previously unavailable in such an easily deployed, intuitive solution.

OTT streaming delivery performance (real-time QOS):
Real-time stream health KPIs concurrently measure performance by variant, by
location and by delivery network.

  • Verify the stream availability of every variant in every location.
  • Predictive analysis of rebuffer risk.
  • Identify stalled manifests and playlist errors.
  • Real-time measurement of the variant startup time and any corresponding
    connection errors.
  • Configurable alerts around HTTP streaming errors and out-of-threshold delivery
    performance provide instant notifications.

Video quality and audience experience analysis (real-time QOE):
Identify and rapidly react to changes in content encoding that might negatively
impact audience experience with intuitive real-time Audio/Video audience Mean
Opinion Score (MOS) measurement.

  • Configure alarms for stalled video with live detection of out-of-threshold detected
    of still frames and black frames.
  • Real-time alerts for silent audio on any or all channels
  • Ensure delivery and regulatory compliance with real-time dialNorm and dialNorm
    deviation analysis.