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Functions

On the Live console, you can quickly configure basic functions such as streaming domain names, live streams, transcoding, and recording. In addition, resource monitoring is provided to help you analyze data in real time.

Dashboard

When you log in to the Live console, the Dashboard page is displayed. On this page, you can view the downstream traffic and bandwidth today and downstream traffic and bandwidth and upstream bandwidth over the past few days. You can also click Getting Started in the upper right corner to quickly get started with Live.

Figure 1 Dashboard
  • Resource Usage Today displays the downstream traffic and peak downstream bandwidth on the current day.
    Table 1 Resource Usage Today

    Item

    Description

    Downstream Traffic

    Total downstream traffic consumed by all streaming domain names on the current day

    Peak Downstream Bandwidth

    Peak downstream bandwidth used by all streaming domain names on the current day

  • Usage trend displays the used downstream traffic, downstream bandwidth, and upstream bandwidth today, yesterday, over the last week, or over the last month.
    Table 2 Statistical items

    Item

    Description

    Downstream Traffic

    Total downstream traffic consumed by all streaming domain names for playback acceleration in a specific period

    Downstream Bandwidth

    Total peak downstream bandwidth consumed by all streaming domain names for playback acceleration in a specific period

    Upstream Bandwidth

    Total upstream bandwidth generated by the streaming device for the selected streaming domain name in a specific period

    You can point to the chart to view the specific value of each selected domain name or scroll the mouse wheel to zoom in or out on the X-axis within a time range.

  • Billing Mode displays the CDN billing mode used by Live. You can click Change to change the CDN billing mode or click Buy Resource Package to buy a resource package.

    If your customer tier is V0 or V1, you can only be billed by traffic.

    Figure 2 Billing Mode

Function List

You can configure or use the functions in the navigation pane of the Live console.

Table 3 Console function overview

Category

Function

Description

Streaming Management

Live Stream Management

You can manage ongoing streams and historical streams, such as disabling and resuming live streams.

Recording Management

You can obtain basic information about recordings.

Domains

Domain Name Configuration

You can add and manage your own domain names, configure CNAME records, URL validation, referer validation, and access control lists (ACLs) for domain names, and configure recording, snapshot, and transcoding templates.

Stream Pushing Configuration

Transcoding

You can transcode live streams into video streams with different resolutions and bitrates to meet a broad range of requirements.

Recording

You can configure recording templates, record live streams based on the templates, and store the recordings in OBS.

Snapshot Capturing

You can configure snapshot templates, capture snapshots from live streams based on the templates, and store the snapshots in OBS.

Stream Status Notifications

You can configure callback URLs so that you can be notified of stream status in real time.

Stream Authentication

You can configure URL validation and ACLs to identify and filter out malicious visitors.

Playback Configuration

Stream Latency Configuration

You can configure the latency for streaming using RTMP and HTTP-FLV.

Origin Pull Settings

You can pull live content from your own origin server to HUAWEI CLOUD Live center for distribution.

Configuration Method

You can enable HTTPS secure acceleration for streaming domain names to ensure that your live content is encrypted during transmission.

Access Control (New Version)

You can configure referer validation, URL validation, and ACLs to identify and filter out malicious visitors.

Access Control (Old Version)

You can configure referer validation and URL validation to identify and filter out malicious visitors.

Statistics (New Version)

Live Streaming

You can view the downstream bandwidth usage, downstream traffic usage, and number of online viewers of a streaming domain name, view the upstream bandwidth usage and number of stream pushing channels of the corresponding ingest domain name, and export the downstream bandwidth and traffic usage details to your local PC.

This function is unavailable in CN North-Beijing1.

Value-added Services

You can view the transcoding duration, maximum number of concurrent recording channels, and number of snapshots by ingest domain name.

This function is unavailable in CN North-Beijing1.

Stream Playback Profiles

You can view stream playback profiles by streaming domain name.

This function is unavailable in CN North-Beijing1.

HTTP Status Codes

You can view status codes returned in the responses to playback requests by streaming domain name.

This function is unavailable in CN North-Beijing1.

Statistics (Old Version)

Downstream Bandwidth

You can view the bandwidth usage of all streaming domain names and export bandwidth details to your local PC.

Downstream Traffic

You can view the traffic usage of all streaming domain names and export traffic details to your local PC.

Upstream Bandwidth

You can view the upstream bandwidth statistics of streaming devices.

Channels

You can view the total number of channels generated by streaming devices.

Stream Analytics

Historical Streams

You can view historical push streams by domain name.

This function is unavailable in CN North-Beijing1.

Frame Rate and Bitrate

You can view the changes in frame rate and bitrate of a stream when an ingest domain name pushes the stream to the origin server.

This function is unavailable in CN North-Beijing1.

Logs

Log Management

You can view logs about requests to a streaming domain name and query and download log files over the past 90 days.

This function is unavailable in CN North-Beijing1.

Tools

Signed URL Generation Tool

You can quickly generate signed URLs for streaming and ingest domain names.

This function is unavailable in CN North-Beijing1.

Player

You can preview video streams in FLV and M3U8 formats.

This function is unavailable in CN North-Beijing1.