Media and Entertainment
More fast streams, fewer black screens
Don’t let a black screen or buffering issues define your brand. Get insights in seconds on content delivery, from edge to end user. Hydrolix provides real-time visibility for the world’s biggest live and on-demand events.
Trusted by the biggest media providers in the world for live media observability
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Zero room for error, zero compromises on data
Complete visibility
Get a unified view from stream origin to end user across CDNs, encoders, and devices with no sampling or gaps.
CDN INSIGHTS
Proven at peak scale
Battle-tested during big game broadcasts with sub-second query latency on massive datasets.
VIEW SUPER BOWL CASE STUDY
Long-term retention
See bot behavior across CDN providers in one unified dashboard.
Pricing
One unified dashboard for your CDNs
- Monitor all CDNs in a unified dashboard, with prebuilt coverage for CDNs handling more than 80% of global traffic.
- Correlate and compare CDN performance metrics in real time, including error rates, cache hit percentage, throughput, and latency across all providers.
- Drill down into performance across regions, ISPs, and more, so you can reroute traffic before viewers are affected by outages or buffering issues.
Visibility across your streaming pipeline
- Monitor encoding and packaging health from AWS Elemental MediaLive and MediaPackage. Catch dropped frames, 4xx/5xx errors, and encoding latency before they impact viewers.
- Track ad delivery performance with AWS Elemental MediaTailor, including fill rates, ad context, and abandonment.
- Analyze client-side QoE metrics like playback failures, buffering, and startup time with Mux and Bitmovin integrations.
Enrich your data with device intelligence
- Enrich log data with WURFL device intelligence to understand stream performance across thousands of device profiles.
- Capture information like device type, codec support, screen resolution, and user agent to troubleshoot device-related issues and optimize advertisements.
From live insights to long-term strategy
- Retain 15+ months of full-fidelity data to compare event performance year over year. All data is hot for queries regardless of age.
- Keep a full record of performance for partners, rights holders, and internal stakeholders with complete historical records.
- Support AI/ML model training on complete historical data, not short-term, sampled datasets.
Hydrolix was able to scale to tens of millions of events per second, combining logs from multiple CDN providers to simplify and speed up operations. Even at extreme data volumes, Hydrolix identified and alerted us to issues within seconds, meaning we could find and fix issues before they impacted viewers. Hydrolix helped us make sure that ultimately it was the viewers who were the winners.”
MAYUR SRINIVASAN, SENIOR VP, DIGITAL PLATFORM TEAM, FOX
Real-time analytics at massive scale for media and entertainment
Customer Stories
Use Cases
How Hydrolix Helped DAZN Deliver Flawless Global Streaming
How DAZN used Hydrolix to deliver an enhanced viewer quality-of-experience and unlock additional ad revenue during the FIFA Club World Cup.
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Customer Stories
Use Cases
Real-Time Super Bowl Insights for FOX
Learn how Hydrolix provided FOX with real-time observability insights at the Super Bowl on 200 terabytes of data.
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Customer Stories
Partners
Use Cases
The Role of Real-Time Observability for Streaming Live Events
Read about the importance of real-time observability for streaming real-time events—a guest post from Akamai’s Eric Elbaz.
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Frequently asked questions
What data volumes can Hydrolix handle for live events?
Hydrolix is built for internet-scale peak loads. During the Super Bowl, Hydrolix hit a peak of 17.4 GB/second for FOX, the equivalent of 1.4 petabytes per day. Hydrolix can handle volumes ranging from terabytes to petabytes per day, including spikes due to demand or unpredictable events like DDoS attacks.
How does the Hydrolix data pipeline work for live media observability?
Log data from your infrastructure streams into Hydrolix in real time via Kafka, Kinesis, or HTTP. At ingest time, Hydrolix applies transforms that normalize, enrich, and compress data, reducing your data footprint by 20–50x while optimizing it for fast queries.
You can ingest data into both summary tables (for fast aggregations and metrics) and raw tables (for root cause analysis and granular investigations). Data is available for queries within ten seconds even at peak load.
Does Hydrolix sample or aggregate data at high ingestion rates?
No. Hydrolix ingests and stores full-fidelity data at peak rates without sampling or aggregation. This matters most during live events, when the problems you need to find — buffering spikes, CDN errors, latency in specific geographies — are often buried in the data that sampled platforms throw away.
How does Hydrolix support multi-CDN live media operations?
Hydrolix provides prebuilt integrations for major CDN providers used in live media, including Akamai, Cloudflare, AWS CloudFront, and Fastly. CDN log data flows into a unified dashboard, where you can correlate performance across providers in real time and drill down into individual CDN behavior by geography, ASN, device type, and more.
Proven at maximum scale
Hydrolix delivered hyperscale monitoring for FOX Sports, processing 200TB of log data with 0.481 second average query response time over 55 billion records for the biggest game of the year.