Once you log in to the BlendVision web console, the Dashboard module will be the top page that provides you with a comprehensive overview of our service.
This centralized hub serves as the command center for your monitoring needs. From the Dashboard module, you can effortlessly navigate through various sections, gaining an up-to-date overview of the latest news on BlendVision One, and your livestream/VOD usage.
This article details how to utilize the Dashboard module:
- Top news for the latest service updates
- Ongoing events for an overview on livestreams and VOD encoding
- Assets Statistics for content performance analytics
- Usage Summary for estimated data on billable usage
- FAQ for help center user guides
Top News
The top banner on the dashboard displays the latest BlendVision news, such as maintenance information, key feature releases, and any help articles that can be referred to.
Ongoing events
Under the top banner, it shows the up-to-date overview of your ongoing livestreams and VOD encoding.
Ongoing live channel
This section lets you check the number of concurrent livestreams:
- Active: live events bet5ween the “Preview” ~ “Live” statuses will be counted in this item.
- Idle: live events not between “Preview” ~ “Live” statuses will be counted in this item.
Note:
- Archived live events will not be counted as ongoing live channels.
- For the definition of each live status and their transitions, please refer to Live Module Introduction
Ongoing encoding
From this section, you can check the number of VODs that are still encoding.
- Standard: VODs encoding in the standard queue.
- Faster: VODs encoding in the faster queue.
Note:
- Encoded VOD will not be included in the ongoing encoding count.
- For details on encoding speed and queue types, refer to Processing Speed
- Refer to Edit a VOD to confirm the definition of each encoding status.
Assets Statistics
This section offers an overview of your past live events and encoded VODs from the past 28 days through the “Livestreams” and “VODs” tab.
The data is collected from our Analytics module with further insight on individual content available in “Advanced Analytics”.
Accumulated data
You can data on the following metrics for live events and encoded VODs from the past 28 days:
- Events (shown in Livestream tabs) and VODs (shown in VODs tab): shows the number of past live events (including archived events) and VODs.
- Total Views: shows the total view count of your content.
- Total Watch Time (hr): shows the total watch time of your content in hours.
- Total Unique Viewers: shows the total number of unique viewers after excluding repeated device IDs.
Top Event/Top VOD
These tables display the following data regarding past live events and encoded VODs.
- Top Event/Top VOD: for the live event name and VODs name.
- Views: shows the view count for each content.
- Avg. View Duration (hr): shows the average watch time for a piece of content in hours.
Usage Summary
This section shows a summary of your stream’s estimated billable usage with graphics, and AiSK overall usage with graphics (Click “Expand All” at the bottom to display the whole information).
The data is collected from our Analytics module with further insight available by pressing “View all”.
Note: The displayed estimated data is for reference only. Please navigate to Organization module > Billing via the sidebar for actual charges and bills.
Stream
Billable CDNs
The visualized graphics will show your total CDN usage for VODs, AOD, livestreams and AiSK & Transcription Playback. You can switch the graphics using the options from the upper right corner:
- Overall: Total usages in GB, encompassing both your previous live events, VODs, AOD and AiSK & Transcription Playback consumption.
- Livestreams: Usages in GB, consumption details for live events
- VODs: Usages in GB, consumption details for VODs
- AOD: Usages in GB, consumption details for AOD
- AiSK & Transcription Playback: Usages in GB, consumption details for AiSK and transcription playback
Noted: The billable CDN usage for livestreams includes the actual CDN consumption and the transition time between your active and idle channels.
Billable Storages
The graphic will show your storage usage for encoding and file storing. You can switch the graphic from the options in the upper right corner:
- Overall: total usage for encoding and files in the library modules measured in gigabytes. You can also confirm your encoding quota.
- File Storage: consumption details for files stored in BlendVision cloud storage.
- Encoding: consumption details for encoding using advanced features.
Then, when you click “Expand all”, you can confirm the summary of Accumulated live hours, DRM requests, and Auto-generated Transcription.
Accumulated live hours
You can confirm the consumption and quota of live hours, including regular live events and events with advanced features enabled.
DRM requests
You can confirm the DRM usage per request used in live and VOD streaming.
Instant Encoding Requests
You can confirm the times of the instant audio encoding requests.
Auto-generated Transcription
You can confirm the consumption with the length of the Source files multiplied by the number of audio tracks.
AI Translation
You can confirm the amount of subtitle characters translated by AI in VOD.
AiSK
Bot
The amount of Ready unique bot (Bot ID) counting consumption.
Messages
The count of messages (User query).
The graphic will show your message count. You can switch the graphic expression from the options in the upper right corner:
- Overall
Then, when you click “Expand all”, you can confirm the summary of Source Characters, Stored Characters, Billable Storage, and Auto-generated Transcription.
Source Characters
The count of Source characters.
Stored Characters
The count of Stored characters.
Billable Storage
It will share the same quota as the Stream part.
Auto-generated Transcription
It will share the same quota as the Stream part.
FAQ
From the bottom of the dashboard, you can easily access our user guides, FAQ articles, and other resources from our help center. These resources are designed to assist you in making the most of BlendVision modules and features.