To monitor your website’s global performance is a considerable challenge, even when using a single CDN provider. Various tools are available for this purpose. Each CDN provides its statistics and dashboards, and additional services can offer insights into your website’s performance. However, the challenge intensifies when adopting a multi-CDN approach. In such cases, each CDN handles only a portion of the traffic, leading to variations in behavior, monitoring, and analytics capabilities. Comparing your traffic’s performance across different CDNs becomes complex. You’re left with dissimilar graphs that lack the ability to make meaningful comparisons. Performance analysis extends beyond end-user experience. It encompasses availability and functional metrics, error rates, and how your website behaves when traffic is distributed. There’s no universal number to represent the entire world; you must examine performance across different geographical regions. Monitoring and observing a multi-CDN environment can be challenging. IO River offers a holistic multi-CDN solution that provides unified observability regardless of the CDNs in use. It allows you to compare CDNs across various metrics with three dashboard types:
