{"id":"4179a236-1f7b-4601-9836-5a8cf65f7578","task":"Monitor live stream health metrics and set alarms for frame drop and ingest bitrate","domain":"docs.aws.amazon.com","steps":["For AWS-based pipelines (MediaLive, MediaPackage, IVS), navigate to CloudWatch Metrics and explore the relevant service namespace (e.g., AWS/IVS or AWS/MediaLive) to find stream health metrics such as IngestVideoBitrate, IngestAudioBitrate, and DroppedFrames.","Create CloudWatch Alarms on the DroppedFrames metric with a threshold of > 0 over a short evaluation period (e.g., 1 minute) to alert on any frame loss during the stream.","Set an alarm on IngestVideoBitrate falling below a minimum expected value to detect encoder issues or network degradation on the contribution path.","For platform-agnostic monitoring, configure the encoder to push stats to a time-series database (e.g., InfluxDB or Prometheus) via encoder status APIs or OBS websocket; build dashboards showing bitrate, FPS, and RTT.","Use Mux Data or a video observability platform to correlate ingest health with viewer-side rebuffering rate and stream error events from the player SDK.","Set up SNS notifications on critical alarms to page on-call engineers when stream health degrades below acceptable thresholds."],"gotchas":["DroppedFrames in CloudWatch for IVS measures frames dropped at the ingest point, not at the player; player buffering issues require separate monitoring via the player SDK.","Metric granularity varies by service; some MediaLive metrics are only available at 1-minute granularity, which may be too coarse for rapid fault detection on live events.","High-velocity metrics (multiple streams) can generate significant CloudWatch costs; scope alarms to active streams only and use metric math to avoid unnecessary alarm evaluations."],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-06-12T18:24:15.304Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":{"status":"sampled","method":"legacy-file-sample","at":"2026-06-13T18:43:30.487Z"},"url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/4179a236-1f7b-4601-9836-5a8cf65f7578"}