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
An accelerated domain name is added. For more information, see Add a service domain name.
Features
By default, operations reports provide statistics on user access data, such as PV/UV, Regions and ISPs, Domain Names, Popular Referer Headers, Popular 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.
Report content | Description |
PV/UV | Query PV and UV for domain names by time. |
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. |
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. |
Popular Referer Headers | 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. |
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 DCDN 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.
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.
The data generation intervals for different metrics are as follows:
Popular URL (sort by number of requests or traffic): 6 hours
Popular Referer (sort by number of requests or traffic): 1 hour
Popular Origin-Fetch URL (sort by number of requests or traffic): 1 hour
Top Client IP (sort by number of requests or traffic): 6 hours
Domain Name Rank (sorted by traffic only): 1
PV/UV: 1 hour
Access Region Distribution: 1 hour
ISP Distribution: 1 hour
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 DCDN console.
In the left navigation pane, choose Operations Reports.
On the Operations Reports tab, click Customize Operations Report.
In the Customize Operations Report dialog box, you can configure the domain names and report content.
Parameter
Description
Domain Names
Select the accelerated domain names for which you want to customize operations reports. You can select multiple domain names.
Report Content
Select the report content that you want to customize. You can select multiple types of content.
Click OK to customize the report.
NoteIf you remove a domain name or a report type from the Customize Operations Report settings, the corresponding subscription task stops generating data. You must also update the Tracking Tasks to remove the item from the subscription. For more information, see Step 6.
Optional: You can modify the Customize Operations Report.
Repeat the preceding steps to add or remove report content.
Subscribe to operations reports
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.
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.
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 DCDN console.
In the left navigation pane, choose Operations Reports.
On the Operations Reports page, click the Tracking Tasks tab.
Click Tracking Tasks and configure the subscription settings.
Parameter
Description
Task Name
Enter a name for the subscription task.
Report Type
Daily, weekly, and monthly reports are supported.
Daily report: Sent to your mailbox after the log data from the previous day is fully collected and calculated.
Weekly report: Calculated by calendar week. Sent to your mailbox after the log data for a week is fully collected and calculated. The report for the previous week is usually sent on Monday morning of the next week.
Monthly report: Calculated by calendar month. Sent to your mailbox after the log data for a month is fully collected and calculated.
Email Address
The email addresses to receive the operations reports. You can enter multiple email addresses separated by commas (,).
Domain Names
Select the accelerated domain names for which you want to subscribe to operations reports.
Report Content
Select the report content to which you want to subscribe.
Click OK. A message is displayed, indicating that the The tracking task is created..
NoteAfter you subscribe to a report, an error occurs if you delete a content type in the customization settings and then click Edit to view the subscription task. The deleted content is displayed as a report ID, which indicates that this content is no longer part of the customized report. You can no longer subscribe to this report content. For more information about the mappings between report IDs and report names, see Report mappings.
The traffic data in the reports is measured in bytes.
Optional: You can modify the Tracking Tasks.
Select the subscription task to modify, click Edit, modify the settings as described in step 4, and then click OK.
Report mappings
The following table describes the mappings between report IDs and report names.
Report ID | English Name | Chinese Name | Calculation Method |
2 | TopUrlByAcc | Popular URL (sort by number of requests or traffic) | Counted by the number of URLs. |
4 | TopUrlByTraf | Sorted by traffic. The traffic value includes the TCP packet header coefficient. For more information, see Why do the traffic statistics from monitoring, usage reports, and log analysis differ?. | |
6 | TopReferByAcc | Popular Referer (sort by number of requests or traffic) | Counted by the number of requests. |
8 | TopReferByTraf | Sorted by traffic. The traffic value includes the TCP packet header coefficient. For more information, see Why do the traffic statistics from monitoring, usage reports, and log analysis differ?. | |
10 | OriginTopUrlByAcc | Popular Origin-Fetch URL (sort by number of requests or traffic) | Counted by the number of URLs. |
12 | OriginTopUrlByTraf | Sorted by traffic. The traffic value includes the TCP packet header coefficient. For more information, see Why do the traffic statistics from monitoring, usage reports, and log analysis differ?. | |
14 | TopIpByAcc | Top Client IP (sort by number of requests or traffic) | Sorted by the number of requests from each client IP address. |
16 | TopIpByTraf | Sorted by traffic. The traffic value includes the TCP packet header coefficient. For more information, see Why do the traffic statistics from monitoring, usage reports, and log analysis differ?. | |
18 | DomainByTraf | Domain Name Ranking (sort by traffic) | Sorted by domain name traffic. |
20 | DomainPvUv | PV/UV |
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22 | AreaTrafStat | Access Region Distribution | Statistics on the distribution of a domain name in a specific region. |
24 | IspTrafStat | ISP Distribution | Statistics on the distribution of a domain name with a specific ISP. |
Disable a customized operations report
Disabling Customize Operations Report stops data generation for all tracking tasks, but the Tracking Tasks are not deleted. 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 DCDN console.
In the left navigation pane, choose Operations Reports.
On the Operations Reports page, click Disable Operations Report.
Click OK to disable the custom operations report.
Delete a subscription task
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Log on to the DCDN console.
In the left navigation pane, choose Operations Reports.
On the Tracking Tasks page, you can select the subscription task to delete and click Delete.
Click OK to delete the subscription task.