Gaming
Launch day pushes you to the limit. Stay in control with complete data.
From dev server to live service, your game generates more data than your tools can handle. Hydrolix gives you real-time, full-fidelity visibility across all your CDN providers, at launch day load, patch delivery scale, and every live event in between.
Monitoring for the infrastructure that delivers your games
Full-fidelity data at peak scale
Complete visibility
Get unified visibility with no sampling or gaps, even when millions of players hit your network simultaneously.
CDN INSIGHTS
Built for launch day load
Proven at daily petabyte scale the load a global launch or patch rollout generates.
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Long-term retention
Retain 15+ months of full-fidelity data on patch delivery, player traffic, and CDN performance, all hot for queries regardless of age.
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Understand how bot traffic is affecting game delivery
- Monitor bot activity across every major CDN provider in one dashboard.
- Spot DDoS patterns before players do, not after your social channels fill with complaints.
- See which user agents, including LLM crawlers and scrapers, are driving up cache misses and delivery costs.
- Trade 30-day retention windows for 15+ months of full-fidelity data, and evolve bot policies over time.
The data from your last launch is the blueprint for your next one
- Retain years of complete data, all hot for sub-second queries at petabyte scale, at a fraction of legacy cost.
- Compare launch and patch performance year over year to fine-tune your infrastructure.
- Keep complete delivery records for live-event reporting, partner SLAs, and post-mortems.
Your entire game delivery network, visible in one dashboard
- Monitor game distribution and patch delivery across all CDN providers in a single unified dashboard.
- Compare CDN performance in real time across providers, including throughput, error rates, cache hit percentage, and latency, so you can identify and fix issues before players notice.
- Drill down into delivery performance by geography, ISP, and device type to isolate regional issues during global launches or live events.
The platform has been extremely helpful, especially for major preloading releases, where we can see traffic for a given title across the world in real time. It was huge, not just for us, but for our business partners as well.”
Major game developer
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Use Cases
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Best Practices
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Frequently asked questions
What data volumes can Hydrolix handle for a major game launch or live event?
Hydrolix is built for internet-scale traffic spikes. The platform has been tested at peak ingest rates equivalent to 1.4 petabytes per day, the kind of load generated by a global game launch or a simultaneous patch rollout to tens of millions of players. Hydrolix scales horizontally to handle volume spikes without degrading query performance.
How does Hydrolix support multi-CDN game distribution?
Hydrolix provides prebuilt integrations for major CDN providers used in game distribution, including Akamai, Cloudflare, AWS CloudFront, and Fastly. Log data from all CDN providers flows into a unified dashboard, where you can correlate performance across providers in real time and drill down by geography, ISP, and device type to isolate delivery issues before they impact players.
Does Hydrolix sample or aggregate data at high ingest rates?
No. Hydrolix ingests and stores full-fidelity data at peak rates without sampling or aggregation.
How long does it take to get started with Hydrolix for game delivery monitoring?
Hydrolix provides pre-built transforms and integrations for major CDN providers. Connect your log sources and your team has a unified dashboard with no custom pipeline work required.
Don’t lose your most useful data
Your last launch is the blueprint for your next one, but only if you still have the data. With Hydrolix, you do.