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Unified Observability

To monitor your website's global performance is a considerable challenge, even when using a single CDN provider. Various tools are available for this purpose. Each CDN provides its statistics and dashboards, and additional services can offer insights into your website's performance.   However, the challenge intensifies when adopting a multi-CDN approach. In such cases, each CDN handles only a portion of the traffic, leading to variations in behavior, monitoring, and analytics capabilities. Comparing your traffic's performance across different CDNs becomes complex. You're left with dissimilar graphs that lack the ability to make meaningful comparisons.   Performance analysis extends beyond end-user experience. It encompasses availability and functional metrics, error rates, and how your website behaves when traffic is distributed. There's no universal number to represent the entire world; you must examine performance across different geographical regions. Monitoring and observing a multi-CDN environment can be challenging.   IO River offers a holistic multi-CDN solution that provides unified observability regardless of the CDNs in use. It allows you to compare CDNs across various metrics with three dashboard types:  

Traffic Dashboard​

This shows current traffic distribution by each provider in terms of hits and bytes. It offers insights into your traffic's division among CDN vendors.

IO River Dashboard - Hits & Bytes

Evaluates how efficiently each CDN offloads content, which can significantly impact costs with cloud providers.

IO River Dashboard - Offloading

Provides error comparison: Crucial for identifying and addressing vendor-related issues that affect end-user experiences.

IO River Dashboard - Error Rates

The system can automatically reroute traffic in response to such problems.

Availability Dashboard​

Provides global availability monitoring based on proprietary agents and third-party data, offering insights into your service's availability around the world. You can analyze this information over different time frames and specific geo-locations, correlating it with business data.

IO River Availability Dashboard  

Performance Dashboard​

Provides performance dashboard, critical when working with multiple vendors, differs for various types of traffic. You can define portions of traffic, such as static or dynamic, to assess performance across different vendors.

IO River Perfromance Dashboard   IO River's traffic policies can help automate optimization based on your performance and cost criterias.  

Summary​

Traffic observability is vital, particularly in multi-CDN setups. IO River simplifies this process, offering unified observability with alerts to identify issues within your CDN infrastructure. Everything you need for traffic monitoring, service availability, and performance analysis is available in one place.