Whether it's receiving detailed cache statistics reports, monitoring your CloudFront usage, getting a list of your most popular objects or setting near real-time alarms on operational metrics, Amazon CloudFront offers a variety of solutions for your reporting needs. You can access all our reporting options by visiting the Amazon CloudFront Reporting & Analytics dashboard in the AWS Management Console.
You can also choose to receive even more information about the traffic delivered by your Amazon CloudFront distribution by enabling CloudFront access logs.
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Track Trends in Requests & Data Transfer
You can view your Amazon CloudFront usage with CloudFront Usage Charts, six charts in the AWS Management Console. You can use the charts to track trends in data transfer and requests (both HTTP and HTTPS) for each of your active CloudFront Web distributions. The charts show your usage from each CloudFront region at daily or hourly granularity, going back up to 60 days, and they also include totals, average, and peak usage during the time interval selected.
These charts include: Number of HTTP/S Requests, Data Transferred over HTTP/S, Data Transferred from CloudFront Edge Locations to Your Users, and Data Transferred from CloudFront to Your Origin.
There are no additional charges for CloudFront Usage Charts. To view the reports, simply navigate to the AWS Management Console, navigate to Amazon CloudFront and select Usage Charts under the Reports and Analytics link in the navigation pane
Monitor, Alarm and Receive Notifications in Near Real-Time
You can monitor, alarm and receive notifications on the operational performance of your Amazon CloudFront distributions within a few minutes of viewer requests using Amazon CloudWatch, giving you more visibility into the overall health of your web application. CloudFront automatically publishes six operational metrics, each at 1-minute granularity, into Amazon CloudWatch. You can then use CloudWatch to set alarms on any abnormal patterns in your CloudFront traffic.
These metrics include: Requests, Bytes Downloaded, Bytes Uploaded, 4xx Error Rate, 5xx Error Rate and Total Error Rate. These are automatically provided to all CloudFront customers at no additional costs. Alarming is billed at standard CloudWatch rates.
Detailed Cache Statistics About Your Content
The cache statistics charts show your usage from each viewer continent at daily or hourly granularity, going back up to 60 days, and also include totals, average, and peak usage during the time interval selected.
The Cache Statistics charts include: Total Requests, Percentage of Viewer Requests by Result Type, Bytes Transferred to Viewers, HTTP Status Codes, and Percentage of GET Requests that Didn't Finish Downloading.
There are no additional charges for the Cache Statistics reports. To view the reports, simply navigate to the AWS Management Console, navigate to Amazon CloudFront and select Cache Statistics under the Reports and Analytics link in the navigation pane.
Track Your Most Popular Objects
The Popular Objects Report shows request count, cache hit and cache miss counts, as well as error rates for the 50 most popular objects during the specified period. This helps you understand which content is most popular among your viewers, or identify any issues (such as high error rates) with your most requested objects.
There are no additional charges for the Popular Objects Report. To view the reports, simply navigate to the AWS Management Console, navigate to Amazon CloudFront and select Popular Objects under the Reports and Analytics link in the navigation pane.
Learn more about your end users
The Viewers Report shows the countries where your end users are located as well as the browsers, devices, and operating systems they use. For all these reports you can also display the trend over time. The Viewer Reports include the following:
- Locations: shows the top 50 countries where your end users are accessing the content that you are distributing using Amazon CloudFront. You can also use the report to see the states and territories for end users in the United States.
- Browsers: shows the top 10 browsers that your end users are using to access your content. The report shows the top 10 browsers by name, or by name and version.
- Operating system: shows the top 10 operating system that your end users are accessing your content from. The report shows the top 10 version by name, or by name and version.
- Devices: shows you how many requests come from mobile, tablets, desktops, and smart TVs during a specified time period.
The Browsers, Devices, and Operating Systems reports are available as bar charts or pie charts, and you can display trends over time for all four reports. You can display all four reports for any date range in the previous 60 days. For the Locations report, you can also display the report with hourly data points for date ranges spanning up to 14 days.
There are no additional charges for the Viewers Report. To display the reports, simply navigate to the AWS Management Console, navigate to Amazon CloudFront, and click the Viewers link under the Reports and Analytics section in the navigation pane.
See which domains referred end users to your website
The Top Referrers report shows you the top 25 domains that referred viewers to your website. These top referrers can be search engines, other websites that link directly to your objects, or your own website. You can display the Top Referrers report for any date range in the previous 60 days.
There are no additional charges for the Top Referrers report. To view the reports, simply navigate to the AWS Management Console, navigate to Amazon CloudFront, and click the Top Referrers link under the Reports and Analytics section in the navigation pane.
Enable CloudFront Acces Logs to Learn More About Your Traffic
You can choose to receive more information about the traffic delivered or streamed by your Amazon CloudFront distribution by enabling access logs. Access logs are activity records that show you detailed information about each request made for your content. CloudFront access are automatically delivered multiple times per hour and the logs within those files will typically be available within an hour of your viewers requesting that object.
To use this feature, you must be signed up for Amazon S3 – you can do so here. You simply create or specify an Amazon S3 bucket you would like to use to store access logs. There are no additional Amazon CloudFront charges for this feature, though normal Amazon S3 charges apply to write, store and retrieve access logs using that service.
