CDN collectors

Amazon CloudFront CDN Collector

The Amazon CloudFront CDN Collector by Datazoom makes the following data points automatically collectable in real time and correlatable to data collected from Datazoom application collectors configured with a media player extension.

Prerequisites

Kinesis Data Streams configuration.
An existing Amazon CloudFront distribution configured to send logs to the Kinesis Data Streams setup above. See the Amazon documentation, Creating and using real-time log configurations to configure/enable real-time logging for your Amazon CloudFront distribution. Please be sure to select all available log fields in the configuration options.

Create a Datazoom CloudFront Collector

Review How to add a CDN Collector to start the process.

Give your Collector a name, save it then re-open it. Click the “REVEAL API KEY” and copy your key. You’ll need it in the CloudFront configuration steps below.

Configuring the Kinesis Firehose HTTP endpoint

Follow the steps provided by Amazon to setup a Kinesis Data Firehose Delivery Stream.

Give the configuration a name.
Select “Kinesis Data Stream” as the source and select the Kinesis stream from the popup that you have available from the Prerequisites section above.
Leave the default items selected on the “Process Records” screen
Select “HTTP Endpoint” as the destination
Set the following items:
HTTP Endpoint URL: https://streaming.datazoom.io/cdn/v1/logs
Access key: API key copied from the Collector setup above
Set an S3 bucket as a destination for Failed Data
Leave the remaining items at their default settings
Review your settings