Get Current Total Connections

Indicates the total new connections per second on the specified platform. For the purposes of this endpoint, a connection is initiated when a user agent (e.g., web browser) requests content through the CDN. After which, the user agent determines whether future requests within that session will reuse that connection or whether new connections will be established.

How is this statistic calculated?

This statistic is calculated using the following two steps:

1. The average number of new connections per second on each edge server is calculated.
2. This data is collected from all edge servers and then summed.

Request

A request to find out the total number of new connections per second is described below.

HTTP Method	Request URI
GET	https://api.edgecast.com/v2/realtimestats/customers/AccountNumber/media/Platform/connections

Define the following variables when submitting the above request.

VariableA variable represents a value that must be replaced. A variable consists of either a URL segment (e.g., "0001" in /0001/) or a query string value (e.g., "3" in mediaTypes=3).	Description
AccountNumber Required	Replace this variable with a customer account number. This account number may be found in the upper right-hand corner of the MCC.
Platform Required	Replace this variable with an integer that indicates the platform for which a report will be generated. Valid values are: 3: HTTP Large 8: HTTP Small 14: Application Delivery Network (ADN)

Request Headers

This endpointIdentifies a request's connection point to our REST API service. only takes advantage of common request headers.

Request Body

Request body parameters are not required by this endpoint.

Response

The response to the above request includes an HTTP status code, response headers, and a response body.

Status Code

A status code indicates whether the request was successfully performed.

Response Headers

The response for this endpoint only includes standard HTTP response headers.

View common response headers.

Response Body

The response body for a successful request contains the following response parameter:

Name	Data Type	Description
Result	Number floating-point	Indicates the total number of new connections per second on the specified platform.

Errors

The response body for an unsuccessful request may contain an error parameter that provides additional information.

View common error messages.

Sample Request and Response (JSON)

A sample JSON request is provided below.

A sample JSON response is provided below.

{
	"Result" : 21099.000994
}

Sample Request and Response (XML)

A sample XML request is provided below.

A sample XML response is provided below.

<Connection xmlns="http://www.whitecdn.com/schemas/apiservices/" xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
	<Result>21099.000994</Result>
</Connection>