Video Analytics
Instant visibility across content & ads playback to enhance QoE, monetisation and viewer support
Bitmovin’s Observability provides real-time visibility across your video playback. By combining session-level tracking, monetisation analysis, alerts and AI-enhanced error debugging, it helps teams to detect and resolve issues faster, uncover performance trends, and continuously optimize the monetisation of every stream.
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View Bitmovin’s Observability in action
A quick introduction into the capabilities of Bitmovin Observability Analytics
Bitmovin’s Observability instruments
video players across every device
Monitor and analyze every play across multiple players
Bitmovin Player
Amazon IVS
AVPlayer
Media 3 & ExoPlayer
Roku Native Player
Shaka Player
HLS.js
Video.js
HTML5 Video Element
Dash.js
Dolby OptiView
Get 100,000 free impressions every month
The Core Advantages of Bitmovin’s Observability Analytics
Identify errors rapidly
With access to real-time data, get granular and see how your streams are performing across every single user session in real-time, enabling you to identify and take action quickly while reducing the cost of errors.
Ease of use
Get the complete picture by seamlessly integrating with multiple players and data collectors that help you monitor and track every playback event, while enabling your team to access important real-time data.
Industry Benchmarking
See how your streams compare to the rest of the industry and find out how you can take action and optimize your playback to beat industry benchmarks. View how you compare on our Industry insights page.
REAL-TIME DATA
Key metrics delivering actionable insights
Elevate your streams by actively tracking and analyzing more than 200 data points in real-time.
- Quality of Experience
- Error Tracking
- Stream Performance
- Advertising
- Audience Engagement
- Real-time Monitoring
FEATURES
View more on our core observability features
Open Source & Native Player Collectors
Gain the insight you need to deliver a seamless viewer experience by tracking and monitoring playback events across a wide range of open source and native video players.
Video Stream
Error Tracking
Easily find and track streaming issues and resolve them using our advanced debugging tools, ensuring your viewers have the highest quality of experience possible.
Real-Time Observability for Video Playback
Monitor playback quality in real time and proactively identify and solve issues quickly to make sure your live and on-demand streams always perform flawlessly.
Built by and for developers
Integrate Observability with your workflow using SDKs, APIs, and collectors that deliver real-time data and AI-assisted insights across every platform.
Analytics Docs
Query Builder
API Reference
Export APIs
Code Samples
Developer Community
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/bitmovin-player@8/bitmovinplayer.js"></script>
var conf = {
key: 'PLAYER_KEY',
analytics: {
key: 'ANALYTICS_KEY',
title: 'Art of Motion',
videoId: 'wizard-Art_of_Motion-12345',
},
};
var source = {
title: 'Art of Motion',
dash: 'https://cdn.bitmovin.com/content/assets/art-of-motion-dash-hls-progressive/mpds/f08e80da-bf1d-4e3d-8899-f0f6155f6efa.mpd',
};
var player = new bitmovin.player.Player(document.getElementById('player'), conf);
player.load(source);
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Integrate with your data infrastructure
Bitmovin’s Observability fits seamlessly into your data architecture. Use MCP Servers, query APIs and full data exports to access data, integrate with your observability stack, and analyze AI-enhanced performance insights.
Bitmovin’s Dashboard
AWS S3
Google Cloud Storage
Azure Storage
Bitmovin’s
Query API’s
Looker Studio
Grafana
Snowflake
Case Study
DStv
Multichoice uses Bitmovin to improve the performance of its OTT service, DStv Now
Case Study
Castr
Bitmovin’s Analytics enabled efficient deployment and rapid identification of streaming issues
Observability Analytics features and capabilities
| Metrics |
|---|
| Audience |
| Total Plays |
| Unique Users |
| Concurrent Views |
| Total Hours Watched |
| Average View Time |
| Session List |
| Performance |
| Total Startup Time |
| Player Startup Time |
| Video Startup Time |
| DRM Load Time |
| Seek Time |
| Data Downloaded |
| Download Speed |
| Page Load Time |
| Bandwidth |
| Quality |
| Video Bitrate |
| Scale Factor |
| Audio Bitrate |
| Audio Language |
| Subtitle Language |
| Dropped Frames |
| View Time |
| Screen Width |
| Screen Height |
| Supported Codecs |
| Player Width |
| Player Height |
| Rendition Width |
| Rendition Height |
| Debugging |
| Error Percentage |
| Error Ratio |
| Rebuffer Percentage |
| Buffering Time |
| Start Failures |
| Error Code |
| Error Message |
| Error Stack Trace |
| Player Duration |
| Number Packets Sent |
| Segment Name |
| Number of Segments Downloaded |
| Time Spent Downloading Segments |
| Video Duration |
| Video Start Failure |
| Reason for Video Start Failure |
| Subtitles Enabled |
| Comparison |
| Player Name |
| Player Type |
| Player Version |
| Browsers |
| Platforms |
| Domains |
| Experiments |
| Integrations |
|---|
| SAML SSO |
| Okta |
| AWS S3 |
| Google Cloud Storage |
| Azure Storage |
| Snowflake |
| Google Pub/Sub |
| Grafana |
| Collectors |
|---|
| Bitmovin Player (Web, Smart TV, Apple, Android, Roku & more) |
| Shaka Player |
| dash.js |
| hls.js |
| video.js |
| HTML5 Video Element |
| Android ExoPlayer & Media3 |
| Apple AV Foundation |
| Roku Native |
| Chromecast v3 Adapter for Shaka Player |
| THEOPlayer / Dolby OptiView |
| Amazon IVS Player |
| Advertising Metrics |
|---|
| Audience |
| Ad Impressions |
| Completion Rate |
| View Rate |
| View Percentage |
| Started |
| First Quartile |
| Midpoint |
| Third Quartile |
| Completed |
| Click Rate |
| Click Position |
| Skipped |
| Skip Position |
| Ad Abandonment Rate |
| Abort Position |
| Performance |
| Ad Tag Load Time |
| Ad Startup Time |
| Debugging |
| Error Percentage |
| Failed Beacon URLs |
| Analysis Screens |
|---|
| API Explorer |
| Countries |
| Error Data |
| Network Explorer |
| Session Tracking |
| Top Errors |
| Video Bitrate Heatmap |
| SSAI Analytics |
| CSAI Analytics |
| AI Session Interpreter |
| Observability Alerts |
| Real-Time Monitoring |
| Filters & Breakdowns |
|---|
| Browser |
| CDN Provider |
| Country |
| Custom Data 1-5 |
| Domain |
| Experiment |
| Internet Service Provider |
| Live |
| Operating System |
| Platform |
| Player Name |
| Player Type |
| Player Version |
| Video Title |
| Video Codec |
| Audio Codec |
| Autoplay |
| Browser User Agent |
| Browser Version |
| Customer User Id |
| Stream Format |
| Custom Video Id |
| Device Class |
| Device Type |
| DRM Type |
| Browser Language |
| Stream URL |
| Collector Platform |
| Geographic Region |
* Please note: these fields are available through the Analytics API. A subset are also available in the Analytics Dashboard.
