The Streaming Entities page provides a centralized view of all applications with the New Relic video agent installed. This page helps you monitor and compare video and ad playback performance across all your streaming applications and platforms.
What you can do with Streaming Entities
Use this page to:
- View all applications where the video agent has been instrumented in a single table
- Compare video and ad KPIs across different applications and platforms
- Identify applications experiencing high rebuffering, start failures, or playback failures
- Assess video quality metrics like average bitrate and start time across all entities
- Click on any application to examine detailed video and ad playback data
- Create new streaming entities directly from this page
Who uses this page
This page is useful for teams managing multiple streaming applications across different platforms who need to quickly assess performance across their entire streaming infrastructure and identify which applications require attention.
Streaming entities page
The Streaming Entities page displays all applications with the New Relic video agent installed. In the table view, you'll find a summary of the video and ad KPIs. You can click on any application to examine and analyze its video and ad playback data.
Streaming entities overview page UI
To view the Streaming Entities across all platforms, go to one.newrelic.com > All Capabilities > Streaming Video & Ads > Streaming Entity.
UI | Description |
|---|---|
Name | Entity name for the application, click the entity name to view the detailed information. See Summary for more information. |
Account | Information regarding the account where the entity is being registered. |
Video Rebuffering Ratio (%) | Percentage of video plays that experienced buffering. |
Ad Rebuffering Ratio (%) | Percentage of ad plays that experienced buffering. |
Average Bitrate (B/s) | Measurement of video quality based on the bits played back. |
Ad Average Bitrate (B/s) | Measurement of ad video quality based on the bits played back. |
Average Start Time (s) | The average time it takes before the first frame loads. |
Ad Average Start Time (s) | The average time it takes to load the first frame of the ad. |
Video Start Failures | Count of video play attempts that failed to start (excluding user-initiated terminations). |
Ad Start Failures | Count of ad play attempts that failed to start (excluding user-initiated terminations). |
Video Playback Failures | Count of video plays that started but failed before completion, reporting an error. |
Ad Playback Failures | Count of ad plays that started but failed before completion, reporting an error. |
Add Streaming entity
If you wish to create a new streaming entity:
- Click + Add streaming entity, top right corner of the page.
- Select the type of app you want to monitor. See Install the video agent
What's next?
- View Video Overview across all applications/platforms.
- View Ad Overview across all applications/platforms.
- View User Sessions across all applications/platforms.