Functions of the Console

On the Live Console, you can manage Media Live domain names, transcoding templates, and channels. In addition, resource monitoring is provided to help you analyze data in real time.

Dashboard

Figure 1 Dashboard

On this page, you can view the following information. You can also click Quick Links in the upper right corner to view the documentation.

Today
- Downstream Traffic: Total downstream traffic used by all streaming domain names on the current day
- Downstream peak bandwidth: Downstream peak bandwidth used by all streaming domain names on the current day
The usage trend displays the recent livestreaming resource usage trend.
- Downstream Traffic: Total downstream traffic used by all streaming domain names in a specific period
- Downstream Bandwidth: Total downstream peak bandwidth used by all streaming domain names in a specific period
- Upstream Bandwidth: Total upstream bandwidth used by the streaming device of a selected streaming domain name in a specific period
You can point to the chart to view the specific value or scroll the mouse wheel to zoom in or out on the X-axis within a time range.
Billing Mode displays the current CDN billing mode. You can click Change to change the CDN billing mode.

Functions

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

**Table 1** Functions of the console
Category	Function	Description
Domains	Adding Domain Names	You can add and manage your own acceleration domain names and view the CNAME records of the domain names.
Domains	HTTPS Certificates	If the streaming URL needs to start with https://, configure an HTTPS certificate by referring to HTTPS Certificates.
Channel Management	Creating a Channel	You can create a channel before the media livestreaming starts. The media file input type can be: FLV_PULL: Stream push is not required. The streaming URL provided by the user is directly obtained and used by Media Live to push streams to the origin server. The streaming URL supports only HTTP. RTMP_PUSH: An RTMP ingest domain name needs to be configured for stream push.
Live Transcoding	Creating a Transcoding Template	You can configure a transcoding template for live videos to transcode live streams into video streams with different resolutions and bitrates to meet a broad range of requirements.
Service Monitoring	Service Monitoring	You can view the monitoring information about a streaming domain name, including the downstream bandwidth/traffic, all status codes returned in request response, and number of downstream concurrent requests.
Tools	Obtaining the Replay URL of a Channel	You can obtain the replay URL of a channel.