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Byteful Network Observability The Network Observability Panel provides real-time and historical insights into your proxy infrastructure. This panel is designed to give you comprehensive visibility across all usage dimensions—hostnames, proxy users, networks, and Smartpath® performance metrics—without needing third-party analytics tools.

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Why use Observability?

Whether you are debugging traffic anomalies, optimizing performance, or planning capacity, the Observability Panel helps you make data-driven decisions quickly and confidently. All key metrics and breakdowns are accessible in a single interface with intuitive filtering and real-time updates.

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Key Features

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Real-Time Metrics and Historical Data

  • Monitor live traffic as it happens with minimal delay
  • Access up to 90 days of historical data to identify long-term trends and anomalies
  • View data usage charts and request volume over time

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Advanced Filtering Options

The panel allows for precise filtering across multiple dimensions:
  • Hostname
  • Proxy User
  • Network Type (Residential, Mobile, ISP, Datacenter)
  • Time Span (Custom ranges with support for hourly to 90-day windows)
Filters support advanced operators such as equals, not equals, contains, and greater than.

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Top-Level Metrics

The top summary section includes:
  • Requests: Total number of proxy requests
  • Bytes Usage: Data consumption in gigabytes
  • Error Rate: Percentage of failed or errored requests
These metrics update in near real-time and reflect the currently selected date range and filters.

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Hostnames, Users, and Networks

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Top Hostnames

Understand where your traffic is going. The panel lists the top 100 hostnames by:
  • Request count
  • Data usage
  • Error rates
This helps in diagnosing domain-specific issues or validating traffic targets.
We may summarise hostnames in the format *.hostname.TLD when we detect high cardinality between a large number of hostnames.

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Top Proxy Users

Gain visibility into your heaviest users:
  • Track request volume and data consumption per user
  • Identify abnormal usage patterns
  • Pinpoint users causing elevated error rates

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Network Distribution

View traffic split by:
  • Residential
  • Mobile
  • ISP
  • Datacenter
Percentages and total volume are displayed clearly to assess distribution across your available network types.

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Smartpath® Metrics

If Smartpath is enabled for your account, the observability panel includes the following metrics: These metrics are filterable and help measure Smartpath’s impact across specific users, domains, and time periods. Byteful Smartpath Analytics

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Network Activity Table

At the bottom of the observability panel, a detailed activity table logs all traffic events by the hour, grouped by:
  • Timestamp
  • Proxy User
  • Hostname
  • Network Type
  • Request Count
  • Bytes Usage
  • Smartpath Savings
  • Billed Bytes