Icecast 2 Server Statistics

Overview

This section contains information about the server statistics available from icecast. An example stats XML tree will be shown and each element will be described. The following example stats tree will be used:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<icestats>
	<client_connections>13</client_connections>
	<connections>14</connections>
	<source_connections>1</source_connections>
	<sources>1</sources>
	<source mount="/test.ogg">
		<artist></artist>
		<audio_info>ice-samplerate=32000;ice-bitrate=Quality -1;ice-channels=1</audio_info>
		<ice-bitrate>Quality -1</ice-bitrate>
		<ice-channels>1</ice-channels>
		<ice-samplerate>32000</ice-samplerate>
		<listeners>0</listeners>
		<public>0</public>
		<title></title>
		<type>Ogg Vorbis</type>
	</source>
</icestats>

General Statistics

client-connections

Client connections are basically anything that is not a source connection. These include listeners (not concurrent, but cumulative), any admin function accesses, and any static content (file serving) accesses.

source-connections

Source connections are the number of times (cumulative not currently connected) a source has connected to icecast.

connections

The total of client + source connections.

sources

The total of currently connected sources (mountpoints).

Source-specific Statistics

artist

Artist of the current song (metadata set by source client).

title

Title of the current song (metadata set by source client).

audio-info

Information about the bitrate/samplerate/quality of the stream (set by source client). Also used for YP entries.

ice-bitrate

ice-samplerate

ice-channels

Information about the bitrate/samplerate/quality of the stream (set by source client).

listeners

The number of currently connected listeners.

public

Flag that indicates whether this mount is being listed on a YP (sey by source client).

type

Media type of the stream.