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title: "Realtime analytics"
slug: "analytics-interface-realtime"
updated: 2025-01-31T12:40:53Z
published: 2025-01-31T12:40:53Z
canonical: "support.iono.fm/analytics-interface-realtime"
---

> ## Documentation Index
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# Realtime analytics

The realtime section of analytics is intended to provide quick visibility into the current listener activity on a stream or podcasts.

          
          

Realtime data is mainly intended for visibility purposes, and does not perform the same extensive filtering included in Historic analytics data views.

- How many sessions are "currently" connected
- A sample of live session activity
- Details of most recently connected sessions
- Breakdown of live sessions by region, application and ISP
- New sessions over the past 3 hours

![realtime.dashboard.example.light 1.png](https://cdn.document360.io/020e2e09-46eb-4899-95e8-482c4a354f61/Images/Documentation/realtime.dashboard.example.light%20%281%29.png)

## Data & metrics

Realtime data is displayed from a sliding window of 24 hours. It is measured by a single metric, "Live sessions" which is defined as:

### Streams

Any session that started less than 24 hours ago and either:

- (a) has not ended yet or
- (b) ended within the past 10 minutes.

### Podcast

- Any podcast access within the past hour.

Sessions detected as "Bot" traffic is also excluded form realtime results.

          
          

Live sessions are tracked regardless of duration, which means even 1 second long listens are be included in realtime data. For this reasons realtime data will never fully correspond to more accurate historic data.

### Timeseries charts

Timeseries charts showing "Started" or "Ended" values indicates the number of sessions that either started or ended at each time interval.

### Sampled data

Sampled data represents new sessions starting almost in realtime, but to ensure consistent behaviour for high volume content, this data takes is limited to 60 samples per minute - additional session starts are discarded.

## User interface

The main user interface for realtime differs from historical reports in several ways:

- Realtime contents are automatically reloaded every 60 seconds.
- (Except for sampled data which is updated continuously)
- The page refresh functionality can be paused and resume.
- Realtime data cannot be filtered.

Realtime data consist of 3 sections.

### Overview

A global overview of the most relevant details, along with sampled data showing realtime activity.

![realtime.dashboard.example.light.png](https://cdn.document360.io/020e2e09-46eb-4899-95e8-482c4a354f61/Images/Documentation/realtime.dashboard.example.light.png)

### Live sessions

The most recent live sessions.

![realtime.dashboard.example.livesessions.png](https://cdn.document360.io/020e2e09-46eb-4899-95e8-482c4a354f61/Images/Documentation/realtime.dashboard.example.livesessions.png)

### ISPs

A breakdown of live sessions by ISP.

![realtime.dashboard.example.isp.light.png](https://cdn.document360.io/020e2e09-46eb-4899-95e8-482c4a354f61/Images/Documentation/realtime.dashboard.example.isp.light.png)