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Announcing full data exports

Published on November 1, 2017 (over 7 years ago)

Announcing full data exports

Jon Dahl
By Jon Dahl2 min readProduct

A quality of experience analytics platform like Mux does three things. Accurately measure what happens when someone watches a video, across different platforms and devices. Collect those measurements...

Real-time CDN switching with Mux and Cedexis

Published on August 31, 2017 (over 7 years ago)

Real-time CDN switching with Mux and Cedexis

Jon Dahl
By Jon Dahl3 min readProduct

Video publishing sometimes feels like a Rube Goldberg machine. To get a single video to play back successfully, a dozen different systems need to play nicely together: websites, players, browsers, ISPs...

Video View Page Revisited

Published on August 25, 2017 (over 7 years ago)

Video View Page Revisited

Jacqui Manzi
By Jacqui Manzi4 min readProduct

We recently redesigned our aggregate metric charts and decided to take another look at how we help customers make sense of individual video views. Previously, the top portion of our video view page br...

Published on August 21, 2017 (over 7 years ago)

Improvements to Error-Rate Alerting

Scott Kidder
By Scott Kidder2 min readProduct

In January 2017 Mux announced support for error-rate alerts in our analytics service. Learn about improvements to alert actionability and visibility.

It's your data, build things with it: Announcing public beta access to our API

Published on July 26, 2017 (over 7 years ago)

It's your data, build things with it: Announcing public beta access to our API

Matthew McClure
By Matthew McClure3 min readProduct

We're proud to call ourselves a developer-focused company. We want developers to want to use our products and actually enjoy it when they do. When we build new features or tools, we want the person tha...

So we redid our charts... (Part II: Graphing, React-ing, and maybe a little crying)

Published on June 30, 2017 (over 7 years ago)

So we redid our charts... (Part II: Graphing, React-ing, and maybe a little crying)

Matthew McClure
By Matthew McClure13 min readProduct

Part 2/2 in a series on how we revamped the charts in our video analytics product. We'll explore a few charting libraries and talk about how we picked ours.

So we redid our charts... (Part I: designs and such)

Published on June 22, 2017 (over 7 years ago)

So we redid our charts... (Part I: designs and such)

Steven Striegel
By Steven Striegel10 min readProduct

Part one in a two part series about how we revamped the charts in our video analytics product. Part two covers the technical implementation.

Announcing Self-serve Pricing & Signup

Published on April 6, 2017 (almost 8 years ago)

Announcing Self-serve Pricing & Signup

Steve Heffernan
By Steve Heffernan2 min readProductPricing

We started Mux because we saw what the most advanced video companies had built to monitor their viewer experience, and we wanted to bring it to everyone.

Recover from Rebuffering: Mux Metrics Explained

Published on March 30, 2017 (almost 8 years ago)

Recover from Rebuffering: Mux Metrics Explained

Eliot Miller
By Eliot Miller7 min readProduct

Rebuffering can be the most frustrating part of online video for viewers. In this Article we're going to troubleshoot buffering issues with Mux metrics

The Video Startup Time metric explained

Published on March 14, 2017 (almost 8 years ago)

The Video Startup Time metric explained

Eliot Miller
By Eliot Miller7 min readProduct

Although Video Startup Time sounds like a simple metric it is vital to understand, but elusive to measure. Here at Mux we know our metrics.