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title: "CDN control panel"
description: "A CDN control panel allows teams to make the most of the valuable data behind the traffic that goes through the CDN’s servers. Customers using our CDN solution can leverage a powerful control panel to..."
url: https://www.stackscale.com/blog/cdn-control-panel/
date: 2022-06-29
modified: 2024-01-24
author: "Marketing Stackscale"
image: https://www.stackscale.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/cdn-control-panel-stackscale-1.jpg
categories: ["Solutions"]
tags: ["Monitoring", "Servers"]
type: post
lang: en
---

# CDN control panel

A CDN control panel allows teams to make the most of the valuable data behind the traffic that goes through the CDN’s servers. Customers using our [CDN solution](https://www.stackscale.com/solutions/cdn/) can leverage **a powerful control panel to monitor their site’s traffic and consumption**. The dashboard has an user-friendly interface where customers can easily view aggregate and real-time data. Besides, customers can also collect all data via an API.

Here is **an overview of the main sections within the CDN dashboard**.

## CDN dashboard’s homepage

The dashboard’s homepage offers an overview of the contracted services. It collects the main metrics of the Content Delivery Network:

- **Hit Miss**. It displays the percentage of requests which access a content from the closest CDN server, instead of accessing the original content. 
- **Traffic**. It displays monthly traffic data.
- **Request per second**. It displays the number of requests per second in real time.
- **Transcoding data**. If the transcoding service is active, it displays the minutes of transcoding during the past month.
- **Storage data**. If the storage service is active, it displays the storage space used during the past month.
- **Attacks per second**. It displays the number of attacks per second in real time.
- **Tickets**. It is connected to the tickets manager in order to display the tickets assigned to the user.
- **State of the service**. It displays a record of issues, scheduled maintenance tasks, etc. Customers can subscribe to receive notifications by email. 

![Stackscale](https://www.stackscale.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/homepage-CDN-control-panel-stackscale-1.jpg)

## History

The history folder collects data related to content delivery, WAF and I3. Besides, customers can download raw data in CSV format.

### Delivery

The delivery tab displays graphs related to:

- Requests per second.
- Bandwidth usage.
- Requests per site.
- Transfer per site.
- Monthly usage.

![Stackscale](https://www.stackscale.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/history-delivery-CDN-control-panel-stackscale-736x1024.jpg)

### WAF

The WAF tab displays graphs related to:

- Requests per second.
- Bandwidth usage.
- Attacks per site.
- Monthly usage.

![Stackscale](https://www.stackscale.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/history-WAF-CDN-control-panel-stackscale.jpg)

### I3

The I3 tab displays graphs related to:

- Requests per second.
- Bandwidth usage.
- Monthly usage.

![Stackscale](https://www.stackscale.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/history-I3-CDN-control-panel-stackscale.jpg)

## Analytics

The analytics folder collects real-time data about traffic:

- Requests.
- Bandwidth usage.
- Hit Ratio.
- Response time.
- Status code.
- Country requests.
- Protocol.
- User agent.
- URLs.
- Purges.
- Content type.
- Referrer.
- IP address.

Customers can filter the graphs they wish to include in the dashboard, as well as filter traffic by website, IP address, content type, etc. 

![Stackscale](https://www.stackscale.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/analytics-CDN-control-panel-stackscale-395x1024.jpg)

## Provisioning

The provisioning folder allows to manage:

- **Backends**: the customer’s origins where the CDN has to fetch the content.
- **Sites**: the URLs of the sites.
- **VCL setups**: basic and advanced options to set up the CDN.
- **Certificates**.

![Stackscale](https://www.stackscale.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/provisioning-CDN-control-panel-stackscale-1.jpg)

## Refetch

The refetch folder allows customers to manage invalidations in real time. Customers can purge content by URL or using Tags.

![Stackscale](https://www.stackscale.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/invalidations-url-CDN-control-panel-stackscale.jpg)

## Secure layer

The secure layer folder collects real-time data from the Web Application Firewall (WAF):

- Attacks per site.
- Bandwidth usage.
- Attacks’ location.
- Number of attacks per country.
- Payload rule.
- URI.
- Site attack.
- IP attack.
- Rule message.
- Rule ID.

Customers can filter the graphs they wish to include in the dashboard, as well as filter traffic by URI, date, country, etc.

![Stackscale](https://www.stackscale.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/secure-layer-CDN-control-panel-stackscale-525x1024.jpg)

The CDN’s logs offer **a valuable record of information to better understand the service performance, malicious requests and user behavior**. For instance, they enable monitoring specific requests to identify high-traffic web pages and to learn where users abandon the website. Moreover, as mentioned at the beginning of the article, **data can also be collected via an API to integrate and join data from different sources** into a dashboard.