Overview
New Relic Streaming Video & Ads monitoring provides comprehensive visibility into video and ad playback performance across your streaming infrastructure. Whether you have a single application or hundreds of applications serving video content across different platforms, you need to monitor video and ad playback quality, user engagement, and streaming performance.
Choosing the right view for your needs
To help manage the complexity of monitoring multiple streaming applications, New Relic enables you to view video and ad playback telemetry data from an individual application or across all applications on various platforms:
- All platform view: View video and ad playback telemetry data from all applications where the Streaming Video & Ads agent has been instrumented. Use this when you need to compare performance across multiple applications or monitor overall streaming health.
- Individual platform view: View video and ad playback telemetry data from a specific application where the Streaming Video & Ads agent has been installed. Use this when you need to deep dive into a specific application's performance or troubleshoot platform-specific issues.
What you can do with Streaming Video & Ads monitoring
Use these features to:
- Monitor video quality metrics including rebuffering, bitrate, and start time
- Track ad performance and delivery across all applications
- Analyze user viewing sessions and playback patterns
- Compare performance across multiple applications and platforms
- Identify and troubleshoot streaming issues affecting user experience
- Create alerts for proactive monitoring of streaming quality
- Generate custom dashboards and reports for streaming metrics
What's next?
Explore detailed monitoring views and capabilities:
- Streaming Entities: View all applications with the video agent installed and compare KPIs across platforms
- Video Overview: Monitor video performance metrics across all applications
- Application Settings: Configure and monitor Quality of Experience metrics with customizable thresholds
- Install the agent: Set up monitoring for Browser, Android, iOS, or Roku platforms