Media Streaming Access Insights

This Application orchestrates the AWS cloud to enable media streaming access insights by introspecting the give cloudfront logs. In addition, this application auto creates all necessary dashboard (Kibana) views for the media access insights. Following Info Graphs Shall be generated automatically for analysis and enhancements

• Access Count across Geolocation (Country, City)
• Heat Map on media access
• Media type Access classification (Video / Audio)
• Bitrate access (Average, Max and Min) across Geolocation
• Latency across (Average, Max and Min) Geolocation
• CDN Edge node level access and latency tracking
• Customer Experience Index (Overall & Geo specific)
• Access classified against Device Type and OS Name
• Unique Framerate , Codec, etc. Usage
• CDN cache Hit & Miss Ratio
• Bitrate Ladder view across countries (0-1Mbps, 1-3Mbps, 3-6Mbps, 6-8Mbps)
• Streaming Errors

Screen Snapshots

High level System View

Prerequisite

• AWS Cloud Account
• IAM access for Elastic Search, Cloudfront Logs S3 [ Read Access ] & EC2 Access
• Docker
• Git

Understanding the configuration

AWS region that we are going to operate on ..!

aws_region = "<>"

Cloudfront Access Bucket Configuration

Bucket Name that holds cloudfront access logs

cf_access_bucket = "<>"

CloudFront Bucket prefix for cloud front logs

cf_prefix = "<>"

If some Cloudfront logs need to be excluded from processing, add the pattern here.

cf_access_exclude = "(E1WPESNRTPW3LO.201[7,8]-[0-9]{2})|(E1WPESNRTPW3LO.2019-[0-10]{2}-[0-28]{2})"

If the cloudfront logs are available in a different AWS account, add the access key for that account; Optional if the logs are available on the same account

cf_access_key_id = ""

If the cloudfront logs are available in a different AWS account, add the secret key for that account; Optional if the logs are available on the same account

cf_access_secret = ""

Logstash EC2 configuration

Configure SSH Keys that might need access to the Logstash EC2 instance

addition_auth_keys = ["ssh_key_1","ssh_key_2",...]

AWS AMI instance ID

logstash_ami = "ami-*********"

AWS Subnet ID

logstash_subnet_id = "subnet-XXXXXXXXX"

AWS Security groups ID

logstash_security_group_ids = ["sg-******","sg-&&&&&&&&&"...]

AWS EC2 instance type

logstash_instance_type = "t2.****"

Logstash deployer keys

SSH public key of the deployer

deployer_key = "ssh-rsa ******"

SSH private key for the corresponding deployer key, This will get mounted on the Docker, align the Docker run command appropriately.

ssh_private_key_path = "/root/.ssh/id_rsa"

Steps

1. Create a Directory "app" and move to the created directory

$ mkdir ~/app
$ cd ~/app

2. Clone the repository

$ git clone https://github.com/cloudaffair/mediaaccessinsights.git
$ cd mediaaccessinsights

3. Build Docker Image for mediaaccessinsights

$ docker build -t mediaaccessinsights .

#Once the build is complete; check image created
$ docker images

4. Make configuration changes in file deploy/cfanalysis.auto.tfvars (use understanding configuration information to configure)

5. Run Docker using the image created #3.

$ docker run -v ~/repos/mediaaccessinsights/deploy/:/mnt/mediaaccessinsights/deploy/ -v ~/.ssh/:/root/.ssh/ -it mediaaccesssinsights:latest /bin/bash 

# Configure AWS Key , AWS Secret and AWS region
$ aws configure

# Terraform initialisation
$ terraform init

# Below prompting appears
# Initializing the backend...
# bucket
#  The name of the S3 bucket
#
#  Enter a value: <<Bucket Name>>

# key
#  The path to the state file inside the bucket

#  Enter a value: <<Prefix>>

# region
#  The region of the S3 bucket.

#  Enter a value: <<Region>>

$ terraform plan

$ terraform apply

$ terraform output

# This will output the Kibana Url that shall be used to view the access insights Kibana Dashboard

Steps to De-provision the application

1. terraform destroy