Hi, I see two statistics on the admin web page. On my system "listeners" is usually 0. Sometimes I will actually catch it at 1 or 2, but it is 0 99% of the time. On the other hand "listener_connections" is always going up. If I refresh the screen it goes up by a few. If I wait an hour and refresh it goes up by tens. Over a few days it goes up by hundreds. What is this telling me? In pursuit of this question I started looking at the logs a little bit. I see a lot of connections happening, particular from a Bose Streaming Service (something like that) which can show 5-6 log entries in one second. What's up with that? Thanks for your help Chris Howard Classic Book Radio wmfh-lp.org
Hello, On 15-04-17 15:19, Chris Howard wrote:> Hi, > > I see two statistics on the admin web page. > > On my system "listeners" is usually 0. Sometimes I will > actually catch it at 1 or 2, but it is 0 99% of the time.That is the current number of listeners.> On the other hand "listener_connections" is always > going up. If I refresh the screen it goes up by a few. > If I wait an hour and refresh it goes up by tens. > Over a few days it goes up by hundreds. > > What is this telling me?That is the total number of times somebody connected to your stream. If your restart your icecast server you will see that the number drops back to zero. In itself it is not a very useful number, IMO.> In pursuit of this question I started looking at the > logs a little bit. I see a lot of connections > happening, particular from a Bose Streaming Service > (something like that) which can show 5-6 log entries > in one second. What's up with that?Is your station listed in a directory of online radio stations? It could be someone is trying to connect to your stream with their home system or internet radio, but failing to stream it (perhaps it doesn't understand your encoding format). Regards, Jeroen van Oosten -- Bankai Software bv Jeroen van Oosten Telefoon: 088-2344999 E-mail: jvoosten at bankai.nl KvK inschrijving: 67066267 "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." --Red Adair
Thanks for the insight. I'm keeping an eye on my logs and I think I'm getting a better feel for my traffic. I still see "listener_connection" going up for some unknown reason. And the "Bose..." thing seems to connect every hour at around the half-hour mark (x:30) and listen for 10 minutes and then drop off. The IP addresses change but they are all Amazon Web Services in Virginia. I wish I knew what that was about. The regularity of it feels more like a robot of some sort than a real listener. And our programming pattern at the half-hour mark is not anything predictable. Chris Howard wmfh-lp.org On 4/15/2017 2:56 PM, Jeroen van Oosten wrote:> Hello, > > On 15-04-17 15:19, Chris Howard wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I see two statistics on the admin web page. >> >> On my system "listeners" is usually 0. Sometimes I will >> actually catch it at 1 or 2, but it is 0 99% of the time. > > That is the current number of listeners. > >> On the other hand "listener_connections" is always >> going up. If I refresh the screen it goes up by a few. >> If I wait an hour and refresh it goes up by tens. >> Over a few days it goes up by hundreds. >> >> What is this telling me? > That is the total number of times somebody connected to your stream. If > your restart your icecast server you will see that the number drops back > to zero. In itself it is not a very useful number, IMO. > >> In pursuit of this question I started looking at the >> logs a little bit. I see a lot of connections >> happening, particular from a Bose Streaming Service >> (something like that) which can show 5-6 log entries >> in one second. What's up with that? > Is your station listed in a directory of online radio stations? It could > be someone is trying to connect to your stream with their home system or > internet radio, but failing to stream it (perhaps it doesn't understand > your encoding format). > > Regards, > > Jeroen van Oosten > >