The operations report feature lets you query batch analytics data for accelerated domain names over different time periods. This data helps you understand the operational status of your domain names and analyze your business performance.
Prerequisites
You have added an accelerated domain name. If you have not, see Add an accelerated domain name.
Features
By default, operations reports provide statistics on user access data, such as PV/UV, Regions and ISPs, Domain Names, Popular Referer, Popular URLs, Popular Back-to-origin URLs, and Top Client IPs. You can customize and subscribe to reports as needed. After you subscribe, the system sends the reports to your specified mailbox. You can analyze the reports to understand the operational status of your accelerated domain names.
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Report content |
Description |
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PV/UV |
Query PV and UV for domain names by time. |
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Regions and ISPs |
View user access distribution by region and ISP for a specified time range. Regions include the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong (China), Macao (China), Taiwan (China), and regions outside China. |
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Domain Names |
Displays the access ranking of accelerated domain names. The ranking includes percentage, traffic or peak bandwidth, time of peak, and number of requests. Note
The minimum granularity for querying domain name rankings is one day. For example, after you select a date to query, the system displays the top 200 records for that date. |
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Popular Referer |
Displays the traffic, traffic percentage, number of requests, and request percentage for popular Referers used in hotlink protection. Note
When the operations report feature analyzes user logs, it collects statistics on the http_referer source table columns in user request logs. The statistical results include the following two cases:
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Popular URLs |
Query popular URLs for a specified domain name, status code, and date. The query results include traffic, traffic percentage, number of requests, and request percentage. Note
The minimum granularity for querying popular URLs is one day. For example, after you select a date to query, the system displays the top 3,000 records for that date. |
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Popular Back-to-origin URLs |
Query popular origin-fetch URLs for a specified domain name, status code, and date. The query results include traffic, traffic percentage, number of requests, and request percentage. Note
The minimum granularity for querying popular origin-fetch URLs is one day. For example, after you select a date to query, the system displays the top 100 records for that date. |
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Top Client IPs |
Query the top client IPs for a specified domain name, region, and date. You can rank the IPs by traffic or number of requests. Note
The minimum granularity for top client IPs is one day. After you select a date to query, the system displays the top 200 records for that date if you query all regions. If you query a single region, the system displays the top 20 records for that date. |
After you subscribe to operations reports, Alibaba Cloud CDN periodically sends reports to your mailbox. The traffic data in these reports is measured in bytes.
Customize an operations report
Before you use the operations report feature, you must customize a report to generate data statistics. Data generation takes a long time because of delays in log integrity. Customized reports are typically available around 06:00 on Day T+1. For example, a report customized on July 16, 2025 is available around 06:00 on July 17, 2025.
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If you create an operations report on Day T, you can obtain report data for Day T+1 and later. Report data for Day T and earlier cannot be obtained. Operations report data has a latency of more than 6 hours. The data generation interval varies based on the metric and ranges from 1 to 6 hours. Therefore, you can view the report data for Day T+1 only after 06:00 on Day T+1.
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The data generation intervals for different metrics are as follows:
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Popular URL (sort by number of requests or traffic): 6 hours
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Popular Referer (sort by number of requests or traffic): 1 hour
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Popular Origin-Fetch URL (sort by number of requests or traffic): 1 hour
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Top Client IP (sort by number of requests or traffic): 6 hours
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Domain Name Rank (sorted by traffic only): 1
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PV/UV: 1 hour
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Access Region Distribution: 1 hour
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ISP Distribution: 1 hour
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Other report data is not displayed in the console by default. You can subscribe to reports and have them sent to a specified mailbox to view the data.
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Log on to the CDN console.
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In the left-side navigation pane, choose Statistics > Operations Reports.
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On the Operations Reports tab, turn on the Customize Operations Report switch.
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You can view detailed information for PV/UV, Regions and ISPs, Domain Name Ranking, Popular Referer Headers, Popular URLs, Popular Origin URLs, and Top Client IPs for your account.
Subscribe to an operations report
Before you subscribe to an operations report, ensure that you have customized it. Otherwise, the subscription fails. After you subscribe, the system sends the report to your specified mailbox.
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This subscription feature is in beta. Each Alibaba Cloud account, including its Resource Access Management (RAM) users, can create a maximum of five subscription tasks.
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Because of delays in log integrity, data generation takes a long time. The system sends reports only after all data is collected.
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Log on to the CDN console.
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In the left-side navigation pane, choose Statistics > Operations Reports.
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On the Operations Reports page, click the Tracking Tasks tab.
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Click Tracking Tasks and configure the subscription settings.
Parameter
Description
Task Name
Enter a name for the tracking task.
Report Type
The report frequency. Valid values: Daily, Weekly, and Monthly.
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Daily: After the log data from the previous day is fully collected and processed, the system sends the report to your email address.
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Weekly: The report is calculated by calendar week. After a week of log data is fully collected and processed, the system sends the report to your email address. The report for the previous week is typically sent on the following Monday morning.
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Monthly: The report is calculated by calendar month. After a month of log data is fully collected and processed, the system sends the report to your email address.
Email Address
The recipient's email address. To add multiple addresses, separate them with commas (,).
Domain Names
Select the accelerated domain names for which you want to subscribe to operations reports.
Report Metrics
Select the report metrics to which you want to subscribe.
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Click OK. A "The tracking task is created." message appears.
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After you create a tracking task, if you delete a report metric from a customized operations report, the deleted metric is displayed with an error (as its report ID) when you click Modify for the task. This indicates that the metric is no longer customized and you cannot track it. For the mapping between report IDs and report names, see Report Mappings.
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In the reports, traffic data is measured in bytes.
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Optional: Modify a Tracking Tasks.
To modify a tracking task, select it, click Modify, update the settings as described in Step 4, and then click OK.
Report ID to metric mapping
This table maps report IDs to their corresponding metric names.
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Report ID |
English name |
Metric name |
Calculation method |
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TopUrlByAcc |
popular URLs (ranked by number of requests) |
Ranked by the number of requests for each URL. |
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TopUrlByTraf |
popular URLs (ranked by traffic) |
Ranked by traffic. The traffic value includes the TCP packet header overhead. For more information, see Why do traffic values differ among monitoring, usage query, and log statistics?. |
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TopReferByAcc |
popular referers (ranked by number of requests) |
Based on the number of requests. |
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TopReferByTraf |
popular referers (ranked by traffic) |
Ranked by traffic. The traffic value includes the TCP packet header overhead. For more information, see Why do traffic values differ among monitoring, usage query, and log statistics?. |
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OriginTopUrlByAcc |
popular origin URLs (ranked by number of requests) |
Based on the number of requests for each URL. |
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OriginTopUrlByTraf |
popular origin URLs (ranked by traffic) |
Ranked by traffic. The traffic value includes the TCP packet header overhead. For more information, see Why do traffic values differ among monitoring, usage query, and log statistics?. |
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TopIpByAcc |
top client IPs (ranked by number of requests) |
Ranked by the number of requests from each client IP. |
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TopIpByTraf |
top client IPs (ranked by traffic) |
Ranked by traffic. The traffic value includes the TCP packet header overhead. For more information, see Why do traffic values differ among monitoring, usage query, and log statistics?. |
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DomainByTraf |
domain name ranking (ranked by traffic) |
Ranked by the traffic of each domain name. |
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DomainPvUv |
PV/UV |
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AreaTrafStat |
Visitor distribution by region |
Calculates the distribution of requests for a domain name across different regions. |
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IspTrafStat |
Distribution by ISP |
Calculates the distribution of requests for a domain name across different ISPs. |
Disable a customized operations report
When you disable Customize Operations Report, all tracking tasks stop generating data, but the Tracking Tasks remain. If you no longer need a tracking task, you can manually delete it on the Tracking Tasks tab. For more information, see Delete a tracking task.
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Log on to the CDN console.
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In the left navigation pane, choose Operations Reports.
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On the Operations Reports page, turn off the Disable Operations Report switch.
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Click OK to disable the customized operations report.
Delete a tracking task
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Log on to the CDN console.
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In the left navigation pane, choose Operations Reports.
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On the Tracking Tasks tab, find the task that you want to delete and click Delete in the Actions column.
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Click OK to delete the tracking task.
FAQ
No data in customized reports
Tracking task limit
Viewing real-time data
Related documents
For API operations related to operations reports, see Operations reports.