Monitoring and understanding your streams' health charts gives you insight into what went wrong and how to avoid it in the future.
How to View the Stream Health Charts from Your Dashboard
With Castr, you can check the health charts of both real-time and past streams. If your stream is live, you'll see the real-time chart. If you want to see the analytics of a previous stream, you can find them in the Stream Session History.
To access the health charts of a stream, click Bitrate on the information bar to open the charts directly, or click Analytics to open it.
If you want to review a previous stream session, click Stream Session History. If your stream has ended, you can select a date range and click Show Details to view the data across different periods.
Understanding the Stream Health Chart
By default, Castr shows the entire stream health Overview. To drill down into a specific segment, click Show Metrics Between to select a specific range or another option that suits your needs.
There are two charts that show different aspects of stream health:
Video & Audio Bitrate: This shows the amount of video and audio data transferred over a given duration. A Constant Bitrate setting is recommended for stable streaming, which appears in the graph as a flat line.
Frame Rate: This shows the rate at which consecutive images (frames) are captured or displayed. Any frame drops will appear in this graph.
If you want to zoom into a specific period in the chart, scroll to that point, as shown below.:
Note: Data is retained for 10 days. After this period, information for that session will no longer be available.
Hopefully, this information helps you understand what went wrong during a stream and how to avoid future interruptions. Happy streaming!