Workflow Monitor for AWS Media Services

Overview

Live video workflows can be complex, spanning multiple AWS services. Monitoring these workflows can be challenging, requiring you to consult multiple user guides and manually configure alarms across different services. To simplify this process, AWS has introduced Workflow Monitor, a new tool that helps you discover, visualize, and monitor your live video workflows.

Introduction

Workflow Monitor is a new feature of AWS Media Services that helps you discover, visualize, and monitor your live video workflows. It can automatically discover the resources that are part of your workflow, create signal maps that show the flow of your video content across these resources, and create custom alarms to notify you of any issues in your workflow.

This signal map acts like a real-time control center, displaying all the interconnected elements across AWS Elemental services like AWS MediaConnect, AWS MediaLive, and AWS MediaPackage. It also integrates seamlessly with Amazon S3 buckets for storage and Amazon CloudFront distributions for delivery.

At a glance, you can see:

• All active resources: Every element involved in your workflow is identified.
• Real-time status: Each resource displays its current operational state, updating every second.
• Visualized connections: Forget switching between consoles! The map clearly shows how everything connects within your workflow.
• Live video previews (optional): For select resources like AWS MediaLive channels or MediaPackage endpoints, you can even get live thumbnail previews of the video stream (if available).

This intuitive visualization empowers you to quickly grasp the overall health and connectivity of your media workflows, saving you valuable time and effort.

How it's going to help

• Workflow Monitor can help you save time and effort by automating the monitoring of your live video workflows. It can also help you to:
• Identify and troubleshoot problems in your workflows more quickly
• Improve the reliability and performance of your workflows
• Gain a better understanding of how your workflows are working

Use Cases

• Workflow Monitor can be used for a variety of use cases, including:
• Monitoring live video streams for broadcast, OTT, and social media delivery
• Monitoring video encoding and transcoding jobs
• Monitoring video content processing workflows

Pricing

Workflow Monitor is a free feature of AWS Media Services. There is no additional charge for using a Workflow Monitor.

Conclusion

Workflow Monitor is a valuable tool that can help you simplify the monitoring of your live video workflows. It can save you time and effort and help you to improve the reliability and performance of your workflows.

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