Adaptive Bitrate (ABR)
If you have ABR enabled and you successfully configured transcoding profiles for your live streams, you will see data within the ABR tab of the Analytics Dashboard.
Screenshot: Adaptive Bitrate Overview
Playtime per ABR profile
Playtime per Profile
This example shows the playtime per ABR- (Transcoding-) profile for 270p / 480p / 1080p. The profiles get classified by their video height settings in it transcoding configuration.
Viewers per ABR profile
Viewers per Profile
This example shows the viewer count per ABR- (Transcoding-) profile for 270p / 480p / 1080p. The profiles get classified by their video height settings in it transcoding configuration.
Switches Success / Fail
Success Rate of Profile Switch
In this widget the success rate of all automatic profile switch attempts get compared, based on their actual success or failure.
Switches between ABR profiles
Up and Down Switch Rate
The ratio between UP and DOWN switches gets compared within this widget. A ratio of 50% / 50% might be an indicator of well configured transcoding settings for your audience.
Zoom on ABR
Screenshot: Zoom on ABR
Profile Details
The ABR profiles represent different resolutions for the playback, based on the video height (e.g. 360p, 720p, 1080p):
Playtime per Profile
- playtime per resoultion, ranked by longest playtime
Viewer Count per Profile
- active viewers per profile (not concurrent viewers)
Profile Switch Details
Insights for the ABR profile switches provide useful information to determine general stream or bandwidth quality:
Success Rate
- relation between successed and failed up and down profile switches
Up and Down Switches
- more distinct insights of different profile switch categories (e.g. only up or down switches)