Rendimiento del flujo

Salud general del flujo

No tiene sentido transmitir si nadie puede verlo. The Stream Performance page in the admin, at /admin/stream-health, gives you an overview of some important metrics that may give you an idea if what you’re offering your viewers is leading to a good experience.

The page charts four things: Video Segment Download, Player Network Speed, Errors and Quality Changes, and Viewer Latency.

Ver errores, bajas velocidades de red y tiempos de descarga excesivos para su contenido puede significar que necesita añadir calidades de video adicionales para mejorar el rendimiento de la reproducción para espectadores con menor ancho de banda, redes móviles u otros factores.

Si ve en esta página que las personas están experimentando problemas para reproducir su transmisión, puede que desee solucionar problemas.

Note: Only some players report detailed playback metrics themselves, mostly web browsers running the Owncast web interface.

Server-observed playback metrics require Owncast v0.3.0

For players that do not self-report, such as VLC, mpv, Safari and ffmpeg, Owncast records the download speed and duration of video segments it serves, as observed by the server. This only works when Owncast serves the video itself. If your segments are hosted on S3 storage, viewers download them from there and these players are not represented in the metrics.

Hardware

Saber cómo está rindiendo tu CPU, en particular, respecto a las tareas de procesamiento de video es importante al solucionar problemas. Owncast te ofrece una visión general de las métricas clave del hardware para ayudar con esto.

Si ves que tu hardware está siendo sobreutilizado, es posible que desees solucionar problemas.

Prometheus

Para las personas que prefieren usar soluciones de monitoreo externas, Owncast admite el uso de Prometheus para recopilar un conjunto de métricas.

Puedes señalar tu configuración de Prometheus a tu instancia de Owncast con el punto final /api/admin/prometheus, usando autenticación básica y los datos de inicio de sesión del administrador.

Por ejemplo:

- job_name: owncast
  scrape_interval: 1m
  metrics_path: /api/admin/prometheus
  scheme: https
  basic_auth:
    username: admin
    password: my_admin_password
  static_configs:
    - targets: ["my.owncast.server"]

Exported metrics

All series are gauges, and all carry two constant labels: version (the Owncast version) and host (your configured server URL, or unknown if it isn't set).

Name	Meaning
owncast_instance_active_viewer_count	The number of current viewers.
owncast_instance_active_chat_client_count	The number of connected chat clients.
owncast_instance_total_chat_users	The total number of chat users on this Owncast instance.
owncast_instance_current_chat_message_count	The number of chat messages currently saved before cleanup.
owncast_instance_playback_error_count	Errors reported by players within the current collection window.
owncast_instance_cpu_usage	CPU usage as seen internally by Owncast.

Owncast refreshes these values every 2 minutes, so scraping more frequently than that won't give you more resolution.