Getting Started with Concurrency Monitoring getting-started-overview
Welcome to Concurrency Monitoring! This guide will help you understand the fundamentals and get your integration up and running quickly.
The Problem Concurrency Monitoring Solves problem-solved
In today’s streaming landscape, subscribers expect to access content across multiple devices and applications. However, this creates challenges for content providers:
- Content licensing agreements often limit the number of simultaneous streams
- Bandwidth costs increase with excessive concurrent usage
- User experience suffers when too many streams degrade performance
- Revenue protection requires preventing account sharing abuse
Concurrency Monitoring provides a centralized solution to these challenges.
How Concurrency Monitoring Works
Core Functionality
Concurrency Monitoring operates as a session management service that:
- Tracks active streaming sessions in real-time across all your applications
- Evaluates business policies against current usage patterns
- Enforces limits when policies are violated
- Provides resolution options when conflicts occur
Benefits for Different Stakeholders
Content Providers (Programmers)
- Protect content rights and comply with licensing agreements
- Optimize bandwidth costs by preventing excessive usage
- Improve user experience with clear feedback on limits
- Gain usage insights through detailed reporting
Identity Providers (MVPDs)
- Enforce subscriber agreements across all content partners
- Centralized policy management for multiple applications
- Real-time monitoring of usage patterns
- Scalable architecture handling millions of sessions
End Users
- Clear understanding of their usage limits
- Consistent experience across all applications
- Options to resolve conflicts when limits are reached
- Transparent feedback on why access is restricted
Quick Start Path quick-start-path
- Review key concepts - Learn about sessions, policies, and metadata
- Choose your strategy - Review LIFO vs FIFO strategies
- Start implementing - Follow the API Reference
Ready to Integrate? ready-to-integrate
Service Registration service-registration
To get started with Concurrency Monitoring, contact our Support Team with the following information:
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Company name and contact details
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Applications you want to integrate with Concurrency Monitoring. For each application, please provide:
- Application name
- Application platform(s)
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Integration partner (in case you are subscribing to Concurrency Monitoring on the request of another party, programmer or MVPD)
Need Help? need-help
- API Explorer - Test APIs interactively at Swagger UI
- Key terms and definitions - Glossary
- How to get help? - Support Procedures
- Support - Contact tve-support@adobe.com