Usage Statistics

CDNetworks provides detailed usage statistics to help you analyze the performance and consumption patterns of your CDN services. Key dimensions include Bandwidth, Traffic, Requests, and distribution by Region/ISP.

Accessing Usage Reports

1. Log in to the CDNetworks Console.
2. Select the relevant product from the console dashboard.
3. Navigate to Analytics > Usage in the side menu.
4. You will find the following main tabs:
   • Bandwidth & Traffic
   • Requests
   • Region & ISP Distribution
5. Select the tab corresponding to the data you wish to analyze.
6. Specify the time range and domain(s) (or other filters like region) for your query.
7. Click Query to display the reports.
8. (Optional) To export the detailed data shown in a chart, click the export icon located in the upper right corner of the chart area.

Understanding Usage Dimensions

Each main tab provides different views of your usage data.

Bandwidth & Traffic

This section focuses on data volume (Traffic, measured in bytes, KB, MB, GB, etc.) and data transfer rate (Bandwidth, measured in bps, Kbps, Mbps, Gbps, etc.). It contains several sub-tabs.

Overall Trend

• Description: A summary chart showing Bandwidth & Traffic trends for Edge Servers, Middle-tier servers, and Origin requests, along with the calculated Origin Offload.
• Granularity: Data granularity depends on the query time range. For ranges ≤ 1 day, granularity is 5 minutes. For ranges > 1 day, granularity is 1 hour.

Edge

• Description: Shows the Bandwidth & Traffic generated by CDN Edge Servers delivering content to end-users.
• Granularity: Default granularity is 5 minutes (the minimum). You can manually switch to coarser granularities (e.g., 1 hour, 1 day) in the chart options.
• Features: Supports comparing usage across different time periods using the time comparison feature.

Mid-Tier Cache

• Description: Shows the Bandwidth & Traffic generated on intermediate CDN Servers (used in multi-tier CDN architectures).
• Granularity: Default and fixed granularity is 5 minutes. Manual switching to other granularities is not supported for this metric.

Origin

• Description: Shows the Bandwidth & Traffic generated when CDN servers fetch content from your origin server.
• Granularity: Default granularity is 5 minutes (the minimum). You can manually switch to coarser granularities.
• Features: Supports comparing usage across different time periods.

Origin Offload

• Description: Represents the reduction in traffic fetched from your origin server due to CDN caching. Higher ratios indicate better caching efficiency.
• Calculation: Origin Offload = (Edge Traffic - Origin Traffic) / Edge Traffic
• Granularity: Data granularity depends on the query time range. For ranges ≤ 1 day, granularity is 5 minutes. For ranges > 1 day, granularity is 1 hour.

Daily Data

• Description: Provides a daily summary within the selected time range, showing related data for each day.

Top 10 Domains by Origin Offload

• Description: Lists the top 10 domains with the highest peak Origin Offload within the selected time range, showing both peak and average ratios for each.

Requests

This section focuses on the number of HTTP/S requests processed by the CDN. It contains several sub-tabs.

Overall Trend

• Description: A summary chart showing the number of requests handled by Edge Servers, requests during CDN origin fetches, and the calculated Hit Ratio.
• Granularity: Data granularity depends on the query time range. For ranges ≤ 1 day, granularity is 5 minutes. For ranges > 1 day, granularity is 1 hour.

Edge

• Description: Shows the total number of requests received by CDN Edge Servers from end-users.
• Granularity: Default granularity is 5 minutes (the minimum). You can manually switch to coarser granularities.
• Features: Supports filtering requests by network layer protocol (IPv4 / IPv6).

Origin

• Description: Shows the number of requests made by CDN servers to your origin server to fetch content.
• Granularity: Default granularity is 5 minutes (the minimum). You can manually switch to coarser granularities.

Cache Hit

• Description: Represents the percentage of user requests served directly from the CDN cache (cache hits) without needing to connect to the origin server. Higher ratios indicate better caching efficiency.
• Calculation: Hit Ratio = (Total Edge Requests - Origin Requests) / Total Edge Requests (it can be considered as Cache Hit Requests / Total Edge Requests.)
• Granularity: Data granularity depends on the query time range. For ranges ≤ 1 day, granularity is 5 minutes. For ranges > 1 day, granularity is 1 hour.

Daily Data

• Description: Provides a daily summary within the selected time range, showing the related data for each day.

Top 10 Domains by Cache Hit Ratio

• Description: Lists the top 10 domains with the highest peak Hit Ratio within the selected time range, showing both peak and average ratios for each.

Type Distribution

• Description: Shows the proportion of Edge Requests versus Origin Requests. A lower proportion of Origin requests generally indicates a higher cache hit ratio.
  • Edge Requests: Requests received from end-users at the CDN edge.
  • Origin Requests: Requests made from CDN servers to the origin.

Region & ISP Distribution

• Description: Provides insights into where your users are located (based on their IP address) and breaks down usage metrics by region and sometimes Internet Service Provider (ISP).
• Bandwidth & Traffic: Displays Peak Bandwidth, Peak Time, and Total Traffic per region, typically sorted by Peak Bandwidth.
• Requests: Displays the number of Requests per region and the percentage of total requests from that region, typically sorted by the number of requests.
• Filtering: You can often filter the data to view usage for specific regions.