Tracking Usage

The Usage dashboard provides you with a useful visualization of your subscription's consumption information.

The top half of the pane summarizes the total hourly usage of the subscription and a chart displaying the hourly usage for each date of the selected cycle, organized by bandwidth tiers.
The bottom half of the pane contains a detailed usage breakdown by Zones and Tiers.

Tip

The following definitions are useful for understanding usage data:

Regions: Geographical areas that cloud hosting providers use to house computing infrastructure.
Zones: Larger geographical groupings of Regions used for purposes of billing for data transfer between regions.
Tiers: A level or grouping of similar items to organize them. For example, bandwidth tiers, rate tiers, etc.
Total Usage: shows a sum of time usage reported by every processing and output Hublet in the route. For example, if a route has 1xRTT Hublet, and 2x output Hublets, and is set to run for 1 hour, the usage will be shown as 3 Hours: 1h (RTT Hublet) + 2h (output Hublets)
Please note:
- If an Agile Hublet , a Hublet that can be added to a running route, is added/removed; the usage time will not match the route time, as both agile Hublet and route would have had a different life cycle.
- If there is no content streaming but the route is started, Idle time charges will apply.

Viewing the Usage Dashboard

To view the Usage Dashboard:

Click
Admin Area tab.
Select the desired Subscription.
From the Admin Area section tabs, click the Usage tab
.
Choose between the sub-tabs
to learn more about your
- Routes – and usage of Hublets, tiers, and datacenter regions.
- Appliances – the number of paired appliances available to your subscription.

Routes Usage

To filter data and dynamically change the chart visualization:

Choose from the following options:
- Click the Billing cycle drop-down
  to select the date range you wish to view.
- Click the Hublet type drop-down
  to view usage for All or Regular Hublets.
- Chart type
  allows you to view Daily or Accumulated usage totals.
- Total Usage per input/output zones
  shows the sum of time usage reported by every processing and output Hublet in the route.
- Use Filter by bandwidth tiers
  to display usage data for the selected tier(s) only:
  - Idle – 0 Mb/s; ON but no streams.
  - Low – Up to 4 Mb/s streams.
  - Standard – Up to 12 Mb/s streams.
  - High – Up to 25 Mb/s streams.
  - Ultra – Greater than 25 Mb/s streams.
- Usage Chart
- Consumption Progress Bar
- Usage Breakdown Table
If desired, click the Download CSV button
to generate a file containing consumption data for the selected billing cycle (date range).

Note

Hover your cursor over a bar in the chart to view the breakdown (tier, region, and usage) for a given day.

Appliances Usage

Usage Tab

Appliances Sub-Tab

Billing Cycle (Date Range)

Number of Paired Appliances by Date

Download CSV Button

Viewing Paired Appliances

To view paired appliances:

In the Admin Area, click the Usage tab
.
Click the Appliances sub-tab
.
Use the Billing Cycle dropdown menu to specify the date range in which you are interested.

Note

Hover your cursor over a bar in the chart to view the number of appliances paired for a given day.