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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:
MetricDescription
AI Optimized RequestsNumber of requests routed intelligently via Smartpath
AI Optimized BytesData optimized through Smartpath routing decisions
Money SavedEstimated cost savings achieved with Smartpath
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