Monitoring usage

MinistraPRO allows administrators to monitor the use of the MinistraPRO end-user application and the content that subscribers access.

Account activity

The Accounts > Logs page allows administrators to view all activities performed by accounts, including device logins and media streamed to devices.

IPTV usage

The Statistics pages provide administrators with access to a selection of statistics related to TV content that is managed by MinistraPRO. The default statistics collected are:

Information

The default streaming time after which the viewing statistics are logged can be changed in the statistics.ini configuration file.

Learn more: Configuration reference

  • Statistics > TV statistics shows the viewing statistics for a selected time range across all channels that have been streamed to a device for more than 30 minutes. These statistics include the channel title, the number of views, the last date the channel was viewed, and the average viewing

  • Statistics > TV archive statistics shows the viewing statistics for a selected time range across all archive channels that have been streamed to a device for more than 30 minutes. These statistics include the channel title, the number of views, and the sum of time that the channel has been streamed.

  • Statistics > TimeShift statistics shows the viewing statistics for a selected time range across all channels that have been streamed to a device for more than one minute in TimeShift. These statistics include the channel title, the number of views, and the sum of time that the channel has been streamed.

Tip

You can configure additional statistics in the statistics.ini configuration file.

Learn more: Configuration reference

VOD content status

You can view a list of status changes for VOD Video on demand content. Whenever VOD Video on demand content is edited, published, or scheduled, the VOD > Activity log displays a new entry.

VOD statistics

MinistraPRO collects VOD Video on demand playback statistics but does not natively display that data. You can view and visualize the statistics in a third-party observability system, for example, Grafana. To access the statistics, you must transfer the collected data to the Prometheus monitoring system using an SQL exporter. Contact Infomir to obtain the exporter and a dashboard template for Grafana.

The dashboard template displays VOD Video on demand statistics in the following categories:

  • Device platform

  • Title

  • Account

  • Genre

For more information about configuring Grafana, refer to Grafana documentation at https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/.