You can use the operations report feature to query offline analytical data for your accelerated domain names over different time periods. This data helps you understand the operational status of your domain names and analyze your business performance.
Prerequisites
A domain name is added to Alibaba Cloud CDN.
Features
By default, operation reports provide user access data, such as PV/UV, Regions and ISPs, Domain Names, Popular Referer Headers, Popular URLs, and Top Client IPs. You can customize and subscribe to reports as needed. After a successful subscription, the system sends the reports to your specified email address. You can analyze the reports to understand the operational status of your accelerated domain names.
Report content | Description |
PV/UV | Query PV and UV for domain names by time. |
Regions and ISPs | View the distribution of user access regions and carriers for a specified time range. This includes the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong (China), Macao (China), Taiwan (China), and regions outside China. |
Domain Names | Displays the access ranking of each accelerated domain name. The ranking includes percentage, traffic or peak bandwidth, peak time, and number of visits. Note The minimum granularity for querying domain name rankings is one day. For example, after you select a date to query, the system displays the top 200 results for that date. |
Popular Referer Headers | Displays the traffic, traffic percentage, access count, and access percentage for popular Referers used in hotlink protection. Note When the operations report feature analyzes user logs, it collects statistics on the http_referer field in user request logs. The statistical results fall into two cases:
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Popular URLs | Query popular URLs for a specified domain name, status code, and date. The query results include traffic, traffic percentage, access count, and access percentage. Note The minimum granularity for querying popular URLs is one day. For example, after you select a date to query, the system displays the top 3,000 results for that date. |
Popular Origin Fetch URLs | Query popular origin fetch URLs for a specified domain name, status code, and date. The query results include traffic, traffic percentage, access count, and access percentage. Note The minimum granularity for querying popular origin fetch URLs is one day. For example, after you select a date to query, the system displays the top 100 results for that date. |
Top Client IPs | Query the top client IPs for a specified domain name, region, and date. You can rank the results by traffic or number of requests. Note The minimum granularity for top client IPs is one day. After you select a date to query, the system displays the top 200 results for that date if you query all regions. If you query a single region, the system displays the top 20 results for that date. |
After you subscribe to operations reports, Alibaba Cloud CDN periodically sends reports to your mailbox. The traffic data in these reports is measured in bytes.
Create a custom operations report
Before you use the operations report feature, you must customize a report to start data collection. Data generation can be slow because of delays from log integrity checks. Customized reports are usually generated at 6 pm of the next day.
After you customize the following reports, you can query the data directly in the console by the next day. You can also subscribe to the reports to have them sent to a specified email address, and items take different time to generate:
Popular URLs (sort by number of requests or traffic): 6 hours
Popular Referers (sort by number of requests or traffic): 1 hour
Popular Origin Fetch URLs (sort by number of requests or traffic): 1 hour
Top Client IPs (sort by number of requests or traffic): 6 hours
Domain Name Ranking (sort by traffic only): 1 hour
PV/UV: 1 hour
Access Region Distribution: 1 hour
Carrier Distribution: 1 hour
Data for other reports is not displayed in the console by default. You can subscribe to these reports to have them sent to a specified email address.
Log on to the CDN console.
In the left navigation pane, choose Analytics > Operations Reports.
On the Operations Reports tab, turn on Customize Operations Report.
You can view specific information about PV/UV, Region and ISPs, Domain Name Ranking, Popular Referer Headers, Popular URLs, Popular Origin URLs, and Top Client IP for your account.
Subscribe to operations reports
Before you subscribe to an operations report, you must customize it. Otherwise, the subscription fails. After you subscribe to an operations report, the system sends the report to your specified email address.
This subscription feature is in a trial phase. An Alibaba Cloud account, including its Resource Access Management (RAM) users, can create a maximum of five subscription tasks.
Because of delays from log integrity checks, data generation takes a long time. The system sends the report only after all data is collected.
Log on to the CDN console.
In the left navigation pane, choose Analytics > Operations Reports.
On the Operations Reports page, click the Tracking Tasks tab.
Configure the subscription information.
Parameter
Description
Task Name
Enter a name for the tracking task.
Report Type
Daily, weekly, and monthly reports are supported. However, you can select only one type at a time.
Daily Report: After the log data of the previous day is collected, the system sends the operations report to the email address that you specified.
Weekly Report: After the log data of the previous calendar week is collected, the system sends the operations report to the email address that you specified. Typically, when you create a weekly report, the report is sent on Monday morning of the following week.
Monthly Report: After the log data of the previous calendar month is collected, the system sends the operations report to the email address that you specified.
Email Address
Enter one or more email addresses to receive the operations report. Separate multiple email addresses with commas (,).
Domain Names
Select one or more accelerated domain names whose operations reports to which you want to subscribe.
Report Metrics
Select the report metrics to which you want to subscribe.
Click OK to finish the creation of the tracking task.
NoteIf you delete a metric from the report content of the custom operations report after you create a tracking task, only the ID of the deleted metric is displayed when you click Modify to view the tracking task. In this case, the operations report is not created and cannot be tracked. For information about the mapping between IDs and metrics of an operations report, see Mapping between IDs and metrics of an operations report.
The unit of traffic in an operations report is byte.
Optional.Modify the Tracking Task.
Find the tracking task that you want to modify and click Modify. In the dialog box that appears, configure the parameters that are described in Step 4 and click OK.
Mapping between IDs and metrics of an operations report
The following table describes the mapping between IDs and metrics of an operations report.
Report ID | English Name | Name | Calculation method |
1 | TopUrlByAcc | Popular URLs by Request | Sorted by the number of URLs. |
3 | TopUrlByTraf | Popular URLs by Traffic | Sorted by network traffic. An increase in traffic increases the coefficient of the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) packet header. For more information, see Why is the traffic amount found by using the monitoring and usage analytics feature or the usage statistics feature different from the traffic amount that is logged? |
5 | TopReferByAcc | Popular Referers by Request | Sorted by the number of visits. |
7 | TopReferByTraf | Popular Referers by Traffic | Sorted by network traffic. An increase in traffic increases the coefficient of the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) packet header. For more information, see Why is the traffic amount found by using the monitoring and usage analytics feature or the usage statistics feature different from the traffic amount that is logged? |
9 | OriginTopUrlByAcc | Popular Origin URLs by Request | Sorted by the number of URLs. |
11 | OriginTopUrlByTraf | Popular Origin URLs by Traffic | Sorted by network traffic. An increase in traffic increases the coefficient of the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) packet header. For more information, see Why is the traffic amount found by using the monitoring and usage analytics feature or the usage statistics feature different from the traffic amount that is logged? |
13 | TopIpByAcc | Top Client IPs by Request | Sorted by the number of visits initiated from client IP addresses. |
15 | TopIpByTraf | Top Client IPs by Traffic | Sorted by network traffic. An increase in traffic increases the coefficient of the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) packet header. For more information, see Why is the traffic amount found by using the monitoring and usage analytics feature or the usage statistics feature different from the traffic amount that is logged? |
17 | DomainByTraf | Popular Domain Names by Traffic | Sorted by network traffic of domain names. |
19 | DomainPvUv | PV/UV | |
21 | AreaTrafStat | Visitor Distribution by Region | Collects statistics about the distribution of requests to a specific domain name within a region. |
23 | IspTrafStat | Distribution of ISPs | Collects statistics about ISPs that the clients use. |
Disable operations report
If you disable the Operations Report feature, all tracking tasks stop generating data, but the Tracking Tasks exist. If you no longer need a tracking task, you can delete the tracking task on the Tracking Tasks tab. For more information, see Delete a tracking task.
Log on to the CDN console.
In the left navigation pane, choose Analytics > Operations Reports.
On the Operations Reports page, turn off Customize Operations Report.
Click OK.
Delete a tracking task
Log on to the CDN console.
In the left navigation pane, choose Analytics > Operations Reports.
On the Tracking Tasks tab, select the tracking task that you want to delete and click Delete.
Click OK.
FAQ
Why am I unable to view the custom operations report that I created?
How many report jobs can I subscribe to?
Reference
For information about related API operations, see Operations reports.