Major Stream Alerts Upgrade

On August 16th, I will be upgrading the Stream Alerts service to include a complete overhaul of the alerting system and add some new features that customers have been asking for. The update includes detailed alert emails, new recovery emails, the ability to run traceroutes and call URLS on stream failure or recovery. Details follow the jump.  > More

Flash Payload – Now in HD!

Our Flash Payload Monitor beta now supports high-definition codecs such as AAC and H.264 / MP4! With more people consuming media over the Internet, its important that your content look and sound it’s best. Our Payload Monitoring will let you know about audio or video problems before you get complaints from customers! Contact us today for a demonstration of the beta service.

Content Delivery Summit

The Streaming Media East conference is hosting a Content Delivery Summit this year that should be full of great information regarding the state of the industry. While Stream Alerts won’t have a booth in the exhibitors hall, Chris will be attending the Summit. See you there on May 11th!

Flash Payload Beta Returns!

We are proud to announce the return of the Flash Payload monitoring Beta. It’s almost ready to go, we just need some more input from users. You get the same great quality metrics as our normal Payload offering with bitrates, playback time, audio levels and video deviation. Contact us for details!

Payload Monitoring Upgrade with Quality Metrics

We are please to roll out a big upgrade to our Payload Monitoring system that provides much more information to help you diagnose audio and video problems. We’re able to decode many more streams including Real, Quicktime, AAC and OGG feeds. You can view the current bitrate, buffer and playback times as well as current audio levels or video deviation. And we have graphs!
Read on for details.

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Control Panel Update

We’ve made a few small changes to the Control Panel to accomodate the new Payload upgrades. You can now see your stream’s Availability as percent of up-time and wer’e starting to use graphs. Follow the jump to find out what’s new.

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New Payload Monitoring Beta

Ogg Vorbis now on Stream Alerts!To improve the range and quality of our Payload monitoring, we are testing out a new system that provides greater detail about your streams including the average audio level, video deviation and streamint bitrates. The new system can also decode Ogg Vorbis along with RTSP streams! Contact us for a trial of the new service.

Happy New Year from the UK

Tomorrow begins 2009 and Stream Alerts continues to grow! We have added a new monitoring node in the United Kingdom so login to your Advanced account to use the new location or sign up for monitoring. Have a wonderful and prosperous new year!

About Time…

As one customer said, "it’s time to get global!" Timezones are now implemented in the Control Panel so that alerts will show your local time and the website will be synchronized. Click the link for more information.

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Payload Monitoring Available Now!

We are now proud to offer Content Payload Monitoring, notifying you if your audio goes silent or your video freezes for the ultimate confidence monitoring. Currently only Windows Media audio and/or video streams or Shoutcast MP3 streams are supported. Each Payload monitored stream includes Availability monitoring as well. Flash monitoring is coming soon! Contact us today for a trial account to see how it works.

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