What's New in Conviva Applications

 

This section lists the release notes for the recent Conviva application releases.

 

Conviva VSI

 

Conviva VSI

 

Deprecated Executive Email 2.0 (May 22, 2025)

Deprecated Non-Dimension Custom Tags

Automatic Insights

Trends Enhancements

June 18, 2025

User Management: Bulk User Management

Feature Update:

Introduces a new User Management dashboard with options for admins to perform bulk user updates, such as inviting groups of new users, assigning and editing user roles, updating user profiles, setting access permissions, and monitoring user activities. Admins can also apply permissions to multiple users (up to 50) for DPI Activation Admin, Precision Policy Admin, Metadata Service, and Audience settings.

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Use Case:

Admins can easily select multiple users for admin actions, such as revoking user access, streamlining user management operations.

More Details: User Management.

AI Alerts: AI Alerts Diagnostics Summary Collapse View

Feature Update:

Updates the AI Alert Diagnostics summary section with a collapsible view that emphasizes key alert summary details, including Duration, Peak Value, Impacted Devices, Total Devices, and Root Cause (generated by the AI Alert systems based on the active AI cohort dimension group). Additionally, it includes a new Last 30 Days option to enhance visibility into alert trends and patterns for the past 30 days, alongside an interactive heat map. These enhancements offer focused insights for faster alert resolution.

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Use Case:

Using the AI Alert Diagnostics view, quickly assess alerts by highlighting key details such as Duration, Peak Value, and Root Cause, along with the impacted and total device data. The 30-day alerts list and heat map together help identify the recurring patterns and enable faster diagnosis.

More Details: AI Alert Diagnostics.

Dimensions: New Dimension -- ASN

Feature Update:

Introduces Autonomous System Numbers (ASN) as a dimension in Trends. An ASN is a unique numerical identifier for a group of IP prefixes under an autonomous network, which is crucial for making decisions on how to forward data across the Internet, ensuring efficient and reliable routing. An ASN might be associated with multiple ISPs and vice versa.

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Use Case:

Add ASN and ISP as dimensions in the dimension table. Select an ISP as a primary filter to see the associated ASNs. Check the associated metrics and other dimensions to detect any anomaly (if any).

More Details: Trends.

May 22, 2025

Automatic Insights: Broken Assets Email Notification

Feature Update:

Enhances Automatic Insights with an email notifications option for reported broken assets. Admins can set the notification timeframe to customize the range of notification:

  • All: All broken assets detected in the last 48 hours.

  • New: Only broken assets detected within the most recent hourly report.

This feature provides more focused operational efficiency for broken asset management.

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Use Case:

This enhancement enables the operations teams to monitor broken assets based on email notifications, eliminating the need for manual dashboard checks and enabling more focused analysis to detect and analyse only the most recent asset issues.

More Details: Automatic Insights.

April 30, 2025

Filter Management: List Precision Filters

Feature Update:

Includes Precision filters in the Filter Management list, enabling Precision admins to edit filters from this display. Conviva recommends reviewing the policies before making any changes, as Precision policy filter changes can affect the Precision traffic.

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Use Case:

During data analysis of a live event, Precision admins can modify existing Precision filter conditions from the Filter Management page, such as changing error sensitivity levels to optimize traffic from a high-impact to a lower-impact CDN.

More Details: Filter Management.

User Management: Bulk User Management (Beta)

Feature Update:

Introduces a new User Management dashboard with options for admins to perform bulk user updates, such as inviting groups of new users, assigning and editing user roles, updating user profiles, setting access permissions, and monitoring user activities. Admins can also apply permissions to multiple users for DPI Activation Admin, Precision Policy Admin, Metadata Service, and Audience settings.

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Use Case:

Admins can easily select multiple users for admin actions, such as revoking user access, streamlining user management operations.

More Details: Bulk User Management (Beta).

April 10, 2025

Trends Summary Widgets: New limit of 10 Widgets

Feature Update:

Includes a new widget counter on the Summary Widget screen that displays the total number of widgets added to the Summary tab. This feature tracks the widget usage against the ten-widget limit to help users monitor available slots in the tab.

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More Details: Summary Tab.

March 25, 2025

Filter Management: List Precision Filters (Beta)

Feature Update:

Includes the Precision filters in the Filter Management list, allowing precision admins to edit the filter. Updating a Precision policy filter might affect the precision traffic. So, review the policies before making any changes.

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Use Case:

During data analysis, precision admins can modify existing precision filter conditions on the filter management screen based on their requirements.

More Details: Filter Management.

March 6, 2025

Custom Dashboards Schedule : New Option Enable DoD

Feature Update:

Includes a new Enable DoD option in the Custom Dashboard Email Schedule to include comparison data of the selected dimensions and metrics based on the specified time range. This update improves the data analysis with the color-coded comparison value next to the metrics, providing a quick insight into the performance changes. Also, displays the high and low data for the selected metrics.

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Use Case:

After receiving a Custom Dashboard email with the DoD option enabled, analyze performance changes by reviewing the highlighted high and low values for the selected dimensions and metrics to quickly compare performance impacts.

More Details: Custom Dashboard.

User Management: New Precision Policy Admin Option

Feature Update:

Includes a new Precision Policy Admin option in the Change Role of User page of User Management. This role gives admins the ability to manage precision policies based on requirements. Only admins with this permission can edit precision policies, ensuring controlled access to policy modifications. Previously, customers had to contact Conviva Customer Support for permissions.

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More Details: Pulse Access Levels and User Roles.

February 20, 2025

AI Alerts: New Dedicated Dashboard for Video and Ads

Feature Update:

Enhances AI alert analysis with a separate dashboard dedicated to Video and Ads AI alerts, along with a new Peak Value column. This dedicated dashboard provides focused monitoring of video and ad-related alerts and streamlined reporting of alert data, improving root cause visibility and, with the Peak Value column, enhancing analysis of issue impacts.

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Use Case:

Use the AI Alerts dashboard to identify important anomalies and jump to a detailed anomaly analysis with the Root Cause Leads link. In this example, the Root Cause Leads link for the selected alert (Akamai (CDN)) opens the AI Alert Diagnostics page for quick access to the impacted dimensions in the dimension tables. Also, see the peak value details to know the highest value of the metric, helping in the analysis of the issue impacts.

More Details: AI Alerts.

February 6, 2025

Saved Dashboard: New Option Clone Dashboard

Feature Update:

Enhances Saved Dashboards with a new option to clone saved Trends, Real-Time, and MetricLens dashboards. This feature enables customization based on the original dashboard, simplifying the sharing and modifying saved dashboards.

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Use Case:

Use the clone feature to create a copy of a saved dashboard, customize the dashboard settings, for example, changing the interval from 1 day to the last 7 days, and share the dashboard with the expanded data for further collaboration with other users.

More Details: Public Saved Dashboard, My Dashboards and Trends.

Saved Dashboard: New Option to Convert Private Dashboards to Public

Feature Update:

Enhances the Saved Dashboards with a new option to change the private setting to public. This feature makes it easier to change shared dashboard viewing options from private to public enbaling easier collaboration.

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Use Case:

  • Select a dashboard under the My Dashboard list.

  • Click the Edit icon under the Actions column.

  • On the Update Dashboard screen, select the Make it Public checkbox.

  • Click Update to see the dashboard under the Public Dashboard tab list.

Share the dashboard to collaborate with other users.

More Details: My Dashboards and Trends.

January 23, 2025

Trends: New Option to Perform Advanced Compare with Saved Filters

Feature Update:

Enhances the Advanced Compare Filter Builder in Trends with a new option to directly add saved filters to the compare filter builder, making it easier to use saved filters in comparisons.

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Use Case:

Build comparisons based on saved filter settings, such as combining filter settings for US Akamai Roku and US Akamai iOS to quickly evaluate device performance.

More Details: Compare.

Trends: Listed Ads Metric Selection

Feature Update:

Enhances Ad Metric selection in Trends by adding more Ad metrics to the list, enabling easier and faster selection.

More Details: Trends.

January 8, 2025

Trends: New Dimension Management Feature Setting

Feature Update:

Introduces Dimension Management in Settings, enabling users to convert custom tags into custom dimensions for use in VSI or DPI, adhering to the tag conversion limit specified in their company contract.

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Use Case:

In this example, the DMA custom tag is transformed into a dimension, enabled for video performance analysis using Trends and filters.

More Details: Dimension Management, Trends, and Filters.

 

 

2024 Releases

For a list of Conviva VSI 2024 release updates, see Video Releases 2024.

2023 Releases

For a list of Conviva VSI 2023 release updates, see Video Releases 2023.

2022 Releases

For a list of Conviva VSI 2022 release updates, see Video Releases 2022.

 

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2025 Releases

April 30, 2025

User Management: Bulk User Management (Beta)

Feature Update:

Introduces a new User Management dashboard with options for admins to perform bulk user updates, such as inviting groups of new users, assigning and editing user roles, updating user profiles, setting access permissions, and monitoring user activities. Admins can also apply permissions to multiple users for DPI Activation Admin, Precision Policy Admin, Metadata Service, and Audience settings.

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Use Case:

Admins can easily select multiple users for admin actions, such as revoking user access, streamlining user management operations.

More Details: Bulk User Management (Beta).

February 20, 2025

Dedicated AI Alerts Dashboard for Video and Ads

Feature Update:

Enhances AI alert analysis with a separate dashboard dedicated to Video and Ads AI alerts, along with a new Peak Value column. This dedicated dashboard provides focused monitoring of video and ad-related alerts and streamlined reporting of alert data, improving root cause visibility and, with the Peak Value column, enhancing analysis of issue impacts.

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Use Case:

Use the AI Alerts dashboard to identify important anomalies and jump to a detailed anomaly analysis with the Root Cause Leads link. In this example, the Root Cause Leads link for the selected alert (Akamai (CDN)) opens the AI Alert Diagnostics page for quick access to the impacted dimensions in the dimension tables. Also, see the peak value details to know the highest value of the metric, helping in the analysis of the issue impacts.

More Details: AI Alerts.

Februrary 6, 2025

Clone Saved Dashboards

Feature Update:

Enhances Saved Dashboards with a new option to clone saved Trends, Real-Time, and MetricLens dashboards. This feature enables customization based on the original dashboard, simplifying the sharing and modifying saved dashboards.

Use Case:

Use the clone feature to create a copy of a saved dashboard, customize the dashboard settings, for example changing the interval from 1 day to the last 7 days, and share the dashboard with the expanded data for further collaboration the with other users.

More Details: Trends.

Convert Private Dashboards to Public -- Saved Dashboards

Feature Update:

Enhances the Saved Dashboards with a new option to change the private setting to public. This feature makes it easier to change shared dashboard viewing options from private to public.

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Use Case:

  • Select a dashboard under the My Dashboard list.

  • Click the Edit icon under the Actions column.

  • On the Update Dashboard screen, select the Make it Public checkbox.

  • Click Update to see the dashboard under the Public Dashboard tab list.

Share the dashboard to collaborate with other users.

More Details: Trends.

 

Precision

2024 Releases

August 22, 2024

Schedule Reordered PrecisiFilter builderon Policies

Feature Update:

Enhances the Precision Policies reordering with schedule. This allows you schedule the reordered policy based on the requirement.

Use Case:

This feature allows you to easily schedule the reordered policies based on the requirement.

More Details: Policies Dashboard.

Resiliency Tracking Dashboard - UI Update

Feature Update:

Enhances the Resiliency dashboard with

  • New UI providing a section for filters, widgets, and dimension data for a better user experience.

  • Introduction of the Export option.

This dashboard summarizes the Impact Avoidance Events triggered by Precision due to deviation in CDN performance.

Use Case:

Use this dashboard to identify the CDN-ISP combinations with most issues. This information helps you adjust percentage allocations during important events and address concerns with specific CDNs to improve network performance with certain ISPs in specific regions.

More Details: Resiliency Dashboard.

July 3, 2024

Precision Policies Reorder in Collapsed Mode

Feature Update:

Enhances the Precision Policies dashboard with,

  • An Expanded View toggle allows you to switch between the collapsed mode and expanded mode.

  • The collapsed mode allows you to seamlessly drag and drop policies while viewing the new and previous sequence numbers.

    Additionally, you can use the collapsed view outside the reorder workflow to expand specific rows to read the details.

Use Case:

This feature allows you to easily reorder the policies while seeing the new and earlier sequence numbers. This enables you to prioritise the unconstrained and constrained policies correctly or ensure that the overlapping/conflicting filters are applied in the right order.

More Details: Policies Dashboard.

 

2021 Releases

September 23, 2021 Front End Release

This release includes feature updates for Precision.

  • Users can now schedule Precision distribution policies to be activated at a scheduled time. In addition to activating Precision distribution policies immediately, selected administrators can activate single or multiple policies at a scheduled time. For more information, see Policies Dashboard.

 

Conviva DPI

 

Conviva DPI

 

Automatic Insights

Events and Metrics

Trends Updates

Custom Dashboards

June 18, 2025

User Management: Bulk User Management

Feature Update:

Introduces a new User Management dashboard with options for admins to perform bulk user updates, such as inviting groups of new users, assigning and editing user roles, updating user profiles, setting access permissions, and monitoring user activities. Admins can also apply permissions to multiple users (up to 50) for DPI Activation Admin, Precision Policy Admin, Metadata Service, and Audience settings.

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Use Case:

Admins can easily select multiple users for admin actions, such as revoking user access, streamlining user management operations.

More Details: User Management.

AI Alerts: AI Alerts Diagnostics Summary Collapse View

Feature Update:

Updates the AI Alert Diagnostics summary section with a collapsible view that emphasizes key alert summary details, including Duration, Peak Value, Impacted Devices, Total Devices, and Root Cause (generated by the AI Alert systems based on the active AI cohort dimension group). Additionally, it includes a new Last 30 Days option to enhance visibility into alert trends and patterns for the past 30 days, alongside an interactive heat map. These enhancements offer focused insights for faster alert resolution.

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Use Case:

Using the AI Alert Diagnostics view, quickly assess alerts by highlighting key details such as Duration, Peak Value, and Root Cause, along with the impacted and total device data. The 30-day alerts list and heat map together help identify the recurring patterns and enable faster diagnosis.

More Details: AI Alerts.

Dimensions: New Dimension -- ASN

Feature Update:

Introduces Autonomous System Numbers (ASN) as a dimension in Trends. An ASN is a unique numerical identifier for a group of IP prefixes under an autonomous network, which is crucial for making decisions on how to forward data across the Internet, ensuring efficient and reliable routing. An ASN might be associated with multiple ISPs and vice versa.

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Use Case:

Add ASN and ISP as dimensions in the dimension table. Select an ISP as a primary filter to see the associated ASNs. Check the associated metrics and other dimensions to detect any anomaly (if any).

More Details: Trends.

June 5, 2025

Trends: Last Bucket in Average Duration Metrics

Feature Update:

Enhances distribution analysis for both Flow Average Duration and custom metrics with a last data bucket for all values greater than the user-defined maximum range. This new data bucket helps display outlier cohorts with unusually long durations and evaluate the coverage of the specified data range.

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Use Case:

Use the last bucket to identify and analyze problematic cohorts. For example, apply the last bucket as a secondary filter to explore issues like errors or network delays in users with unusually long durations.

More Details: ECO Trends

Metrics: Introduces ANR To Exit and Crash To Exit

Feature Update:

Introduces new metrics for deeper insights into user behaviours and app recovery patterns related to app stability issues:

  • ANR -> Exit (ANR To Exit)

  • Crash -> Exit (Crash To Exit)

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Use Case:

Use these new metrics to discover the impacts of app thread processing issues and the causes of app crashes, including data on how often users exit the app after crashes or ANRs.

More Details: DPI Metrics

May 22, 2025

AI Alerts: Simplifies Sensitivity Controls

Feature Update:

Simplifies the sensitivity controls for non-network request metrics, replacing Impacted Uniques device sensitivity with improved RCA and issue detection. With this update, AI alerts intelligently detects impact levels and raises the alert for non-network request metrics with appropriate severity, ensuring more accurate and actionable notifications. The AI Alerts page no longer displays the Impacted Uniques column, along with the Total Impacted Devices and % Impacted Devices settings for non-network request metrics.

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Use Case:

Use AI alerts notifications for proactive issue resolution and anomaly detection. Create an alert based on issue persistence, and the AI-based detection system intelligently evaluates the potential impacts for non-network request metrics and assigns the alert impacts accordingly, enabling more accurate and actionable AI alert notifications.

More Details: AI Alerts Senstivity

Metric Builder: New Data Retention Option for Custom Metrics

Feature Update:

Adds a Keep historical data checkbox when editing the custom metric, enabling control over historical data persistence when custom metric settings change. This enhancement enables complete data refresh for major metric changes and data retention for minor updates.

Note: By default, the Keep historical data checkbox is selected to retain historical data.

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Use Case:

Maintains historical data during metric updates, enabling long-term data analysis along with metric on-going adjustments. Also, enables historical data refreshes to restart metric analysis based for major metric changes. This setting is especially beneficial during the initial metric setup phase when major setting changes are required to optimize settings with performance analysis.

More Details: Custom Metrics

Trends: New Info Icon for Custom Metrics

Feature Update:

Updates Trends with access to custom metric details, making it easy to check custom metric details while viewing Trends data.

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Use Case:

To quickly confirm the event composition of a custom metric in a Custom Metric Widget in Trends, click the information icon to verify the initial and complete event selections. For additional metric information, click the metric name to open the Activation metric detail page, which displays the metric details, such as the duration distribution range.

More Details: Trends

Activation: Deprecates Conviva Metric Template and Preview Functions

Feature Update:

Deprecates these functions from the Metric Builder in Activation:

  • Conviva Metric Templates

  • Preview function

Metrics: New App Startup Analysis Metrics and Associated Dimensions (Beta)

Introduction:

Conviva introduces a new set of flow metrics designed to measure stateful user experiences to better analyze critical user experience impacts, such as users trying to restart an app after app crashes and non-responsive pauses.

These metrics enable drill-downs based on the user experience impacts to quickly determine the related root causes of performance issues, such as a network request, mishandling thread allocation or background processing.

Feature Update:

Adds new metrics and it's associated dimensions for deeper insights into user behaviors and app recovery patterns related to app stability issues:

  • Mins with ANR To App Startup

  • Mins with Crash To App Startup

  • ANR To App Startup

  • Crash To App Startup

The dimensions associated with,

  • Mins with ANR To App Startup metric is ANR Reason

  • ANR To App Startup metric is ANR Reason

  • Crash to App Startup metric are Stack Trace, and Error Message

  • Mins with Crash To App Startup metric are Stack Trace, and Error Message

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Use Case:

Use these new metrics to discover the impacts of app thread processing issues and causes of app crashes with data on how often users relaunched the app after crashes or ANRs, and the amount of time users were impacted.

More Details: DPI Metrics

May 8, 2025

User Timeline: Adds Contains Labels for Matched Sessions

Feature Update:

Adds a Contains label to user sessions in the User Timeline dashboard to quickly identify sessions with events and global filters passed from Funnels and Paths. This enhancement provides analysis context and makes it easier to identify relevant sessions with events and filters related to sequences in Funnel and Path event progressions.

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Use Case:

To perform deeper analysis of a sequence of events highlighted in Funnels and Paths, such as a path that ends with a login error to see what events lead to the error. Open the Users Dashboard by drilling into a User ID or Client ID to view sessions that contain the error and check user behavior before and after the error occurs.

More Details: User Dashboard

Custom Metric Builder: Adds Currency Unit for Event Aggregation Metrics

Feature Update:

Adds support to select a currency unit when creating event aggregation metrics. This setting is especially useful for metrics related to monetary values, such as those tracking payments.

Note: The unit is for display purposes only and does not impact how the data is processed.

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Use Case:

To create a metric for tracking payment transactions, choose the Event Aggregation metric type, and identify the specific event and tag needed to extract the desired values. Decide whether to aggregate the data using sum or average, based on your analysis needs. Set the metric unit to ensure a clear and consistent display for easy interpretation.

More Details: Custom Metrics

AI Alerts: Simplifies Sensitivity Controls (Beta)

Feature Update:

Simplifies the sensitivity controls for non-network request metrics, replacing Impacted Uniques device sensitivity with improved RCA and issue detection. With this update, AI alerts intelligently detect impact levels and raise the alert for non-network request metrics with appropriate severity, ensuring more accurate and actionable notifications. The AI Alerts page no longer displays the Impacted Uniques column, and the Total Impacted Devices and % Impacted Devices settings for non-network request metrics are no longer displayed.

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Use Case:

Use AI alerts notifications for proactive issue resolution and anomaly detection. The AI-based detection system intelligently evaluates the potential impacts for non-network request metrics and assigns the alert impacts accordingly.

More Details: AI Alerts Senstivity

April 30, 2025

User Management: Bulk User Management (Beta)

Feature Update:

Introduces a new User Management dashboard with options for admins to perform bulk user updates, such as inviting groups of new users, assigning and editing user roles, updating user profiles, setting access permissions, and monitoring user activities. Admins can also apply permissions to multiple users for ECO Activation Admin, Precision Policy Admin, Metadata Service, and Audience settings.

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Use Case:

Admins can easily select multiple users for admin actions, such as revoking user access, streamlining user management operations.

More Details: Bulk User Management (Beta).

April 24, 2025

Flow and Metric Builder: Improved Activation Workflows for Flows and Metrics

Feature Update:

Introduces redesigned UIs and workflows for building and activating Flows and Custom Metrics. The update streamlines event mapping, improves rule visibility, and enables more efficient creation and modification of flows and metrics.

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Use Case:

When creating flow and custom metrics, map events not only from Event Looker using event metadata, but also from LiveLens by selecting events and their metadata directly from the timeline view.

More Details: Metric Builder

Trends: Extend Secondary Filters option to Duration Custom Metrics and Flow Metrics

Feature Update:

Applies secondary filter functionality to the duration custom metrics and average duration flow metrics. Use the selected distribution range as a page-level filter across the dashboard. Overlay a purple line on the time series view and insert two additional columns in the dimension table view. The dashboard shows primary filter details in blue, while the secondary filter appears as a pink overlay on the time series. An additional column shows the details of the secondary filter.

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Use Case:

To analyze the average login flow duration for the EE TV Amazon Fire Tablet app, set it as the primary filter. Then, click the distribution icon next to the Flow Avg Duration metric and choose a range from the distribution view to apply a secondary filter. In this example, selecting a duration greater than 12 seconds applies a secondary filter, allowing a comparison of the success rate between the overall app and the subset with the selected duration. The secondary filter enables precise analysis of the impact of flow durations on flow outcome metrics, such as 'success'.

More Details: Applying Metric Filters for Deeper Analysis in the Basics and Tasks tab.

April 17, 2025

Flow Analysis: Associate Network Request with Flows

Feature Update:

Enables network requests associated with Flows based on a list of rules defined by Host and Path, allowing you to pinpoint services or APIs that impact flow conversion.

Use Case:

To pinpoint services or APIs that impact Flows' conversion, analyze the network request durations and network request failures after enabling network requests associated with Flows.

More Details: Metric Builder

Trends Flow Widgets: New Business Metrics

Feature Update:

Adds two business metrics, which are independent of any flow constraints, to the Flow Widget. These metrics simply count how many times the event occurred and how many users completed the event.

Use Case:

To better understand how many complete events occur independently, for example, how many times a payment occurs, regardless of the initial event in the flow or the conversion time, check the Complete Events metric from the Flow Widget.

More Details: Flow Widget

Flow Builder: New Checkbox to Keep or Remove Historical Data When Updating Flows

Feature Update:

Adds a Keep historical data checkbox when editing the flow, enabling control over historical data persistence when flow settings change. This enhancement controls whether historical data is maintained across flow setting changes, allowing complete data refresh for major changes and persistent data for minor updates.

Note: By default, the Keep historical data checkbox is selected.

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Use Case:

Preserves historical flow data for most setting updates, enabling flow adjustments based on trend analysis and performance tracking over time. The setting is especially beneficial during the initial flow setup phase as iterations with different settings can help refine flow definitions.

More Details: Metric Builder

Flow Specific Dashboard: Break Down Flow Errors by Custom Error and Event Dimensions

Feature Update:

Enables the flow errors analysis drill-downs with both custom error dimensions and flow event dimensions. This enhancement allows deeper and more actionable insights into where and why flow errors occurred.

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Use Case:

Better understand the context of flow errors by using custom error dimensions and flow event dimensions for the Flow Specific Dashboard. For example, when errors occur, identify which product ID is most impacted.

More Details: Flow Widget

April 10, 2025

Trends Summary Widgets: New limit of 10 Widgets

Feature Update:

Includes a new widget counter on the Summary Widget screen that displays the total number of widgets added to the Summary tab. This feature tracks the widget usage against the ten-widget limit to help users monitor available slots in the tab.

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More Details: Summary Tab

Trends Flow Widget: New Info Icon for Flow Details

Feature Update:

Updates the Trends Flow Widget with access to flow details, making it easy to check flow details within Trends.

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Use Case:

To quickly confirm the event composition of a flow in a Flow Widget in Trends, click the information icon to verify the initial and complete event selections. For additional flow information, click the flow name to open the Activation flow detail page, which displays the flow details, such as the duration distribution range.

More Details: Flow Widget

Trends: New Metrics Categories

Feature Update:

Enhances the metrics in Trends and Real-Time by introducing new categories: Audience, Web User Experience, Mobile User Experience, and Service Performance metrics. This categorization presents the ECO values in a more structured format and simplifies user selection to quickly focus performance analysis on specific audiences, user platforms, and service impacts.

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More Details: ECO Metrics

Metric Creation: New Option in Pairing Logic

Feature Update:

Enables the creation of conversion metrics that count a conversion as successful when the last initial event pairs with the first follow-up event within the specified time frame.

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Use Case:

The Tracking conversion from Payment Submit to Payment Success uses the First-First model to count conversions from the initial payment attempt, assuming the first attempt ideally results in a successful payment. At the same time, tracking conversion from Search Submit to Video Play uses the Last-First model to count conversions from the last search, which provides a satisfactory result and leads to a video play.

More Details:Metric Builder

March 2025

For Conviva ECO 2025 March release, see ECO Mar 2025 Release.

Feb 2025

For Conviva ECO 2025 Feb release, see ECO Feb 2025 Release.

Jan 2025

For Conviva ECO 2025 Jan release, see ECO Jan 2025 Release.

2024 Releases

For Conviva ECO 2024 releases, see ECO 2024 Releases.

2023 Releases

For Conviva ECO 2023 releases, see ECO 2023 Releases.

 

 

VSI and DPI Integration

 

VSI Integration Tool

This section lists the release notes for the recent Conviva VSI Integration releases.

January 23, 2025

Introduces a note at the top of the report and the PDF/Excel exports if at least one testcase is failed.

More Details: Apps dashboard.

January 09, 2025

Enhances the metric names in the Apps and Report tabs depending on the customer type.

For example,

  • Video-only customers see the metrics labeled as "VSF" (Video Start Failure), "VST" (Video Start Time), "VPF" (Video Playback Failure), and so on.

  • Stream-only customers see the same metrics labeled as "SSF" (Stream Start Failure), "SST" (Stream Start Time), and "SPF" (Stream Playback Failure).

More Details: Reports dashboard.

November 21, 2024

Introduces the Content and Ad tags to display custom metadata types in the Apps, Metadata, and Reports dashboards of video integration.

More Details:Custom metadata in Apps dashboard.

September 27, 2024

Introduces the Share Report option for copying the dashboard link to clipboard and sharing the test results with other users.

More Details:Share Apps Dashboard.

April 11, 2024

  • Introduces a new hierarchical menu structure for Integration Tools. As part of this improvement, the existing App Manager is renamed to Video Integration, and Sensor Integration is replaced with DPI Integration.

    Before

    After


  • Introduces a new tab in Video Integration for accessing Touchstone 2.0 (Beta) version. This tab appears for only selected Touchstone 2.0 customers, allowing them to experience seamless self-validation of VSI sensor integration within Pulse without switching environments.

    More Details:Touchstone 2.0 Help.

 

June 29, 2023

New Feature: Reports Dashboard - App Statistics and Integration Overview Reports

New Features

The Reports dashboard displays validation test results of metrics and metadata for all of your device applications.
You can choose to see the validation results for either metrics or metadata for all or selected apps.

Using the Reports dashboard, view reports for:

  • App Statistics

    Use App Statistics report to learn about:

    • The performance of metrics and metadata for all or specific apps

    • Apps that need the most attention (appearing first on the list)
    • Last validation date of the apps
    • Newest build or SDK version if available

  • Integration Overview

    Integration overview reports help to analyze the integration details and the validation improvement progress for each app for a selected time period of 3 months, 6 months, 9 months, or 12 months. These reports use graphical representations to show the impact or improvement of metrics and metadata.

Feature Impact

  • App Statistics report

    • Provides action items to fix the under-performing metrics and metadata

    • Improves integration health

    • Supports downloading the app status report

    • Allows to compare integration health across all the platforms, and to prioritize fixing the apps in the priority order

  • Integration Overview report

    • Provides build submission ratio for each app, and sets KPI to improve integration and data on pulse

    • Enables mapping the Validated - Not In Production builds against the Not validated - In production builds

    • Saves time and efforts required from Conviva customer service team

More Details: Viewing and Downloading Reports

December 20, 2022

New Feature: Conviva Integration Plugin for Android

New Features

Introduces the Conviva Integration Assistant Plugin for Android that helps you integrate the Android players with only a few clicks.

While creating a new app, when you click the View Integration Details button for Android SDKs on Integrate SDK/Library page, you are redirected to the Learning Center Android Integration Assistant plugin page. You can download the plugin from here and follow the instructions to install and use it.

To access the plugin or integration details while you're on the existing app details page, click the "Simplified SDK: Android Player Name" link.

Feature Impact

  • To simplify the integration, the plugin automatically adds the SDK dependencies to your Android project.

  • It generates the ConvivaHelper.java file with all the code that is required to invoke the integration.

  • It also lists the Advanced Use Cases for Android integration.

More Details: Android Integration Assistant Plugin

August 28, 2022

  • Enhances the tool to open the tabs (Overview, Apps, Metadata, and Reports) and the apps in a new tab or a new window.

  • When the Touchstone Reference URL expires, the Notes field on the test results page shows as Link expired.

 

July 28, 2022

This release enhances the features on the test pass report page of the VSI Integration:

  • Email the test pass report to the person who submitted the build.

  • Add numbering to the test case execution and test pass report pages.

 

June 29, 2022

This release enhances the test results page in the Apps tab with the Unexpected Metadata Generated section. This new section displays the metadata that isn't configured in the metadata engine during the app setup. You can review this unexpected metadata and configure it in the engine based on your need. You can choose to discard this information on the test results page. However, it's available on the Metadata tab.

 

May 26, 2022

  • Introduces the Status Report Download option in the Reports tab, where you can download either All Metrics and Metadata (the default option), Metrics Only, or Metadata Only data in an Excel file. You can choose a single app, several apps, or all apps to generate the report.

  • The Hide Apps option enables you to customize the reporting view. You can choose apps to hide them from reporting.

  • The Test Pass email notification contains an attachment of the test results in PDF format.

  • The test results page displays the count of failed test cases.

April 28, 2022

  • Enhances the email notifications to send to the configured users when:

    • An app is created or archived.

    • Builds are submitted or archived.

    • Builds are blocked by the QE team and awaiting input from the customer.

    • Builds are unblocked by providing the required comments.

    • Build validation is complete.

  • Usability Enhancements

    • The Validate Integration tab has additional instructions.

    • View All Metrics toggle is available on the test results page to view all or limited content metrics and metadata. By default, the toggle is enabled and you can view all the metrics.

April 18, 2022

We are excited to announce the launch of Application Manager 2.0, a self-service portal with a guided workflow to set up your applications.

Your current Application Manager data will be maintained and also migrated to Application Manager 2.0 soon. Your Conviva representative will reach out to you when the 2.0 migration is done to address any queries you might have about the migration and your transition to the 2.0 application.

For more details, see the Application Manager 2.0 Help topics in the Learning Center.

 

 

Touchstone 2.0

 

This section lists the release notes for the Touchstone.

June 06, 2025

Deprecates the older version of Touchstone. Use the improved Touchstone 2.0 in Pulse for seamless debugging and self-validation of Conviva's VSI.

For more details, see the Self-Validation Using Touchstone topic in the Learning Center.

April 10, 2025

Enhances all Required Metadata (except Device Model, Browser Name, and other device-related metadata) and Custom Metadata to:

  • Show the metadata values as collected directly from the heartbeat.

  • Support mutability, that is, any changes in the metadata during an ongoing session.

For more details, see the Session Summary topic in the Learning Center.

March 25, 2025

  • Introduces a new Avg. Bitrate metric to show the latest average bitrate as collected from the heartbeat.

  • Enhances the Device Category metadata to show its value as collected from the heartbeat.

For more details, see the Session Summary topic in the Learning Center.

January 23, 2025

  • Displays Module Version in the header section, if available in the heartbeat.

  • Displays CDN changes in the session timeline.

  • Simplifies the statements for player state change and event change in the session timeline.

  • Introduces two new icons for exporting the session summary in the PDF and Excel formats.

For more details about exporting session summary in the PDF format, see the Session Summary topic in the Learning Center.

January 09, 2025

  • Enhances the metric names in the Session details page depending on the customer type.

    For example,

    • Video-only customers see the metrics labeled as "Video Start Time", "Video Restart Time", and "Video Restart Count".

    • Stream-only customers see the same metrics labeled as "Stream Start Time", "Stream Restart Time", "Stream Restart Count".

  • Shows the Default Resource in the Required Metadata section. It is collected from the raw heartbeat.

  • Introduces a new icon to export session summary in the PDF format by clicking the Export to PDF icon at the top-right corner.

For more details about exporting session summary in the PDF format, see the Session Summary topic in the Learning Center.

October 24, 2024

Introduces date picker in the Available Devices page to filter the list of available devices based on a date range.

For more details using the date picker to filter the available devices, see the Available Devices topic in the Learning Center.

September 27, 2024

We are excited to announce the launch of Touchstone, designed to streamline the self-validation process for video sensor integration. Now integrated with Pulse, Touchstone enables in-depth monitoring of session timeline data, accessible within the app and across Pulse’s Overview, Trends, and Viewers dashboards. This new version also resolves previous inconsistencies in metric values between Pulse and the standalone Touchstone 1.0, ensuring more accurate data tracking.

Note: Please contact your account team (Project Manager/Integration Engineer) or Conviva Support (support@conviva.com) to start using Touchstone 2.0 before Touchstone 1.0 is phased out.

For more details about Touchstone features and enhancements, see the Self Validation Using Touchstone 2.0 topic in the Learning Center.

 

 

DPI Integration Tool

This section lists the release notes for the recent Conviva Digital Product Insights (DPI) Integration release.

September 27, 2024

Introduces the Share menu option for copying the dashboard link to clipboard and sharing the validation report with other users.

More Details: Share Validation Reports

June 20, 2024

Introduces the Last Seen column in the Available User Timeline panel to view the occurrence time of the latest event associated to the corresponding application, device, user ID, and client ID.

More Details: Executing Test Cases

 

April 25, 2024

The DPI Integration feature, which is available in Pulse, enables developers to experience a seamless self-validation and debugging process of sensor integration.

For more details about DPI Integration features, see the Integration Help topics in the Learning Center.

Conviva Sensor Modules

Android | iOS | Browser (script tag install) | Browser (npm install) | REACT-Native (npm install) | C SDK (Contact Conviva) | | Roku (Contact Conviva)

Android Video Players

Core SDK, Exoplayer, NexStreaming, Brightcove

Android Ad Managers
Google IMA/DAI

iOS/tvOS Video Players

Core SDK, AVPlayer/AVQueuePlayer, Brightcove

iOS/tvOS Ad Managers
Google IMA

 

JavaScript Video Players

HTML5VideoElement, Video.js, Chromecast CAF,

Samsung TV Tizen AVplay, Playstation Trilithium, Playstation WebMAF

JavaScript Ad Managers
Google IMA, Google IMA DAI Module

 

Roku SceneGraph Video Players
Conviva_Roku_Download

C Video Players: C SDK Download

Rust Video Players: Rust SDK Download

Web Brightcove Video Players
JS Core SDK, JS Brightcove

XBox One/Windows 10:

Media Player/MediaElement
Conviva UWP

XBox One/Windows 10:

WinJS
Conviva UWP JS

Web thePlatform
JS Core SDK, JS thePlatform

DPI Sensor Module Releases

This section lists the release notes for the recent Conviva DPI sensor module releases.

 

May 2025

Conviva iOS version 1.1.3

Supports the traceparent header generation and collection.

More Details: iOS Sensor Integration Help

GitHub Document

Conviva JavaScript version 1.1.8

  • Supports limiting the burst in reporting errors.

  • Fixes the issue in collecting link clicks in multi-page applications.

  • Supports setting a proxy for the Gateway URL.

More Details: JavaScript Sensor Integration Help

GitHub Document

April 2025

Conviva C SDK version 2.185.0.0

  • Revamps the JSON library to accommodate a wider range of custom event inputs.

  • Improves SDK to address potential EBAS workflow issues.

More Details: (Contact Conviva)

 

March 2025

Conviva Android version 1.2.0

  • Enhanced Network Request Collection: Supports automatic collection of network requests in Flutter for Dart’s core HTTP client, as well as popular libraries like Dio, Retrofit, and Chopper.

  • Controlled Ingestion Feature: Now disabled by default. Upgrading to this version will not alter collection behavior unless explicitly enabled. To activate this feature, please contact the Conviva support team.

  • Bug Fix: Target URL Query Parameters: Resolves an issue where the TargetURL in network requests was not reported along with query parameters.

  • Bug Fix: Case Insensitivity: Fixes an issue where network request collection was failing when the TargetURL had case-insensitive variations.

More Details: Android Sensor Integration Help

GitHub Document

Conviva Roku version 3.5.11

  • Fixes an issue where Player State was incorrectly reported as NOT_MONITORED at the start of a session.

  • Fixes an exception caused in the older version (3.5.9 ) that prevented the first video session from being created.

More Details: (Contact Conviva)

Conviva iOS version 1.0.3

  • SDK, by default, controls event collection until the remote config is downloaded. Once available, the remote config takes over the event collection control.

  • Internal improvements.

 

February 2025

Conviva Android version 1.2.0

  • Provides flexibility with control of the click event collection, based on any element tag names, element types, element IDs, etc. To enable the controlled collection of click events (Android), contact Conviva Support.

  • Enhances the EditText elements to restrict text collection for protecting the sensitive data.

  • Limits the elementText tag key to support at most 1024 characters.

More Details: Conviva Android Integration

Code Access: Download Package

Conviva iOS AppAnalytics version 1.0.2

Provides flexibility with control of the click event collection, based on any element title, element type, element name, etc.

To enable controlled collection of click events (iOS), contact Conviva Support.

More Details: Conviva iOS/tvOS Sensor Integration

Code Access: Download Package

Conviva Roku version 3.5.9

Fixes an issue where EBVS was over-reported due to mishandling of the time between video monitoring and ECO event reporting, causing inconsistencies in tracking the first video session.

More Details: (Contact Conviva)

Conviva JavaScript AppAnalytics version 1.1.2

  • Enhances the auto-collection of click events for a broader range of elements, not limiting to buttons and links. This update ensures more comprehensive click tracking with support for all standard HTML elements (link, button, checkbox, radio button, etc.) and elements of other frameworks, such as REACT, Angular, and Vue.

  • Provides flexibility with control of the click event collection, based on any element tag names, element types, element IDs, etc.

Contact Conviva Support to enable nonstandard/unsupported frameworks or control the collection of click events (JavaScript).

While migrating from Conviva JavaScript AppAnalytics version 1.1.1 (or older) to the latest version 1.1.2, update the event/metric mappings in Pulse by replacing the old tag keys for the click events with the new tag keys:

Old Tag Keys New Tag Keys
elementText text
elementValue value
elementId id
elementClasses class

For more information on event/metric mapping using the Semantic Mapper in Pulse, see Semantic Mapper.

Conviva C SDK version 2.184.0.4

  • Fixes the issue with custom events having escape characters.

More Details: (Contact Conviva)

Conviva iOS AppAnalytics version 1.0.1

  • Introduces intelligent collection of network requests that optimizes the collection of network request volume while ensuring flexibility and actionable insights using:

    • Activation rules (Collect or Block), which override previous URL-based blocklists.

    • URL-based filtering using hostname, path, scheme, and filtering based on duration and response status code.

    Contact Conviva Support to enable network request optimizations (iOS).

Conviva Network Request Optimization and ClientId APIs

  • Introduces optimization of data collection with more intelligent collection of network requests while ensuring flexibility and actionable insights by controlling the network request volume using:

    • Activation rules (Collect or Block), which override previous URL-based blocklists.

    • URL-based filtering using hostname, path, scheme, and filtering based on duration and response status code.

    Contact Conviva Support to enable network request optimizations. (Android and JavaScript)

  • Introduces two new APIs, getClientId and setClientId, to share Conviva's clientId across different sensor instances. (JavaScript)

    More Details: Conviva Web (JavaScript) Sensor - GitHub repository

 

January 2025

Conviva C SDK version 2.184.0.3

  • Fixes the issue related to handling large content in metadata tags.

More Details: (Contact Conviva)

December 2024

Conviva C SDK version 2.184.0.2

  • Supports Pause and Resume ECO Tracker.

More Details: (Contact Conviva)

October 2024

Conviva C SDK version 2.184.0.1

  • Supports Network Request Tracking.

  • Supports ECO Device Metadata.

  • Supports Remote Config.

More Details: (Contact Conviva)

September 2024

Conviva Roku version 3.5.6

  • Supports Conviva ECO Version 0.2.12

  • Introduces the following in Conviva ECO Sensor for Roku:

    • enableEco and appId fields in the settings to initialize Conviva Client.

    • setUserId() API to set the viewerId for ECO data.

    • setChannelInfo() API to set the report channel/app load time.

    • trackScreenView() API to report the screen view and changes with load times.

    • trackCustomEvent() API to report custom events.

    • trackClick() API to report button clicks.

    • trackAppError() API to report runtime errors/exceptions.

    • trackNetworkRequest() API to report network request/response data.

    • setCustomTags() API to report custom tags for building custom dimensions.

  • Fixed an issue where reportAdError API always sends severity as FATAL instead of accepting the input severity.

More Details: (Contact Conviva)

Conviva C SDK version 2.184.0.0

  • Supports Video to ECO Events.

  • Fixed multiple saves issues with respect to the App Tracker context.

  • Introduces API for getting and setting the Conviva identifier.

More Details: (Contact Conviva)

August 2024

Conviva iOS AppAnalytics version 0.2.29

  • Enables tracking of screen views in SwiftUI by using the `View` extension function .convivaAnalyticsScreenView(name: "Screen Name"). It sends a custom event, conviva_custom_screenview(cv_csv), that needs to be mapped per customer account.

  • Enables tracking of button clicks in SwiftUI by using the `Button` extension function .convivaAnalyticsButtonClick(title: "Button Title").

  • Enables tracking of Picker (Segment Control) interactions in SwiftUI.

More Details: Conviva iOS/tvOS Sensor Integration

Code Access: Download Package

 

Conviva Android ECO version 0.9.4

Enables and disables the auto detection of the compose and fragment navigation dynamically based on the remote config.

More Details: Conviva Android Integration

Code Access: Download Package

 

July 2024

Conviva Android ECO version 0.9.3

  • Supports the auto detection of the compose navigation with event name conviva_compose_view which needs to be mapped per customer account until Conviva Activation supports to map automatically and compose click tracking with event name conviva_button_click.

  • Supports the fragments navigation with event name conviva_fragment_view which needs to be mapped per customer account until Conviva Activation supports to map automatically.

  • Supports the traceparent header generation and collection.

  • Requires unified Conviva Gradle Plugin version >= 0.3.5 to support auto detection of compose navigation, click and fragments navigation. Please refer to compatibility table.

More Details: Conviva Android Integration

Code Access: Download Package

 

 

Video Sensor Module Releases

This section lists the release notes for the recent Conviva Video sensor module releases.

November 2024

Conviva Roku 3.5.7 Module Upgrade

  • Fixes a crash issue in video sensor SDK for scenarios where duration is being updated along with “play” state.

More Details: Roku SceneGraph Sensor Integration

Code Access: Downloads: Roku: SceneGraph

July 2024

Conviva Android Core SDK version 4.0.39

  • Supports playback tracking in the background.

  • Set the ConvivaSdkConstants.ALLOW_BACKGROUND_PLAYBACK key to true, to continue playback tracking in the background.

More Details: Conviva Android Integration

Code Access: Download Package

April 2024

JavaScript Core SDK 4.7.5 Upgrade

  • Fixes application crash in the non-browser environment.

More Details: Conviva JavaScript Integration

Code Access: Download Package

 

March 2024

Conviva Roku 3.5.4 Module Upgrade

  • Added auto collection for Average FrameRate.

  • Fixed crash issue in processing gateway response due to invalid response.

More Details: Roku SceneGraph Sensor Integration

Code Access: Downloads: Roku: SceneGraph

February 2024

JavaScript Brightcove 4.5.1 Module Upgrade

• Supports Brightcove Player 7.13.4 version

More Details: Brightcove Sensor Integration

Code Access: Download Package

Conviva iOS 4.047 (without Advertising Identifier Support)

More Details: Conviva iOS Integration

Code Access: Download iOS Core SDK 

JavaScript VideoJS 4.3.2 Module Upgrade

  • Includes code stability changes.

More Details: JavaScript Video.js

Code Access: Download Package

January 2024

Removed autocollection of Conviva.Constants.Playback.CDN_IP for several JavaScript players:

  • ChromecastCAF, ChromecastV2, Custom Integration, HTML5VideoElement, PlayStationWebMAF, SamsungTV and VideoJS

More Details: JavaScript Integrate Video Players

Code Access: Download JavaScript Packages

JavaScript Core SDK 4.7.4 Upgrade

  • Includes code stability changes.

  • Fixes an issue that causes multiple console errors while publishing of Video attempt event and session end event.

More Details: Conviva JavaScript Integration

Code Access: Download Package

 

Sensor Releases 2023

December 2023

Conviva Video.js 8.6.1

  • Supports Video.js version 8.6.1

  • Fixes an issue in is_live auto-collection for Live stream

More Details: JavaScript Video.js

Code Access: Download Package

November 2023

Conviva JavaScript Tizen 4.0.2 Module Upgrade

  • Supports Samsung TV Tizen 7.0 SDK

More Details: JavaScript Samsung Tizen Integration

Code Access: Download Package

Conviva C SDK Upgrade

  • Supports Conviva App Experience

More Details: C Sensor Integration

Code Access: Download Package

October 2023

Conviva iOS IMA 4.0.5 Module Upgrade

  • Supports iOS/tvOS 17

  • Supports Google IMA SDK iOS version 3.19.1 & tvOS version 4.9.1

  • Supports iOS Core SDK 4.0.40

More Details: Conviva iOS Integration

Code Access: Download Package

Conviva Roku 3.5.3 Module Upgrade

  • Supports IMA 3.62.0

More Details: Roku SceneGraph Sensor Integration

Code Access: Downloads: Roku: SceneGraph

Conviva Android Core SDK version 4.0.35

  • Supports Android version 14

More Details: Conviva Android Integration

Code Access: Download Package

Conviva Android Exoplayer SDK Version 4.1.1

  • Supports Android version 14

  • Compatible with Exoplayer 2.19.1

  • Supports AndroidX Media3 1.1.1 release

More Details: Conviva Android Integration

Code Access: Download Package

Conviva Android Brightcove SDK Version 4.0.10

  • Supports Android version 14

  • Supports Brightcove version 8.2.3

More Details: Conviva Android Integration

Code Access: Download Package

Support for iOS 17, AVPlayer, and Brightcove Player Modules Upgrade

  • Supports iOS version 17

More Details: Conviva iOS Integration

Code Access: Download iOS Core SDK  | Download iOS AVPlayer Module | Download iOS Brightcove Module

August 2023

Conviva Roku 3.5.2 Upgrade (22/AUG/2023)

  • Supports Roku OS 12

  • Fixes the issue of reporting Ad duration in the main content session.

Conviva Rust SDK version 1.0.3 (18/AUG/2023)

  • Initial version of Rust SDK to integrate Rust based platform players with Conviva stream sensor.

July 2023

C SDK 2.182.0.5 Upgrade

  • Supports App Experience integration

More Details: C Sensor Integration

Code Access: Download Package

JavaScript Core SDK 4.7.2 Upgrade

  • Fixes the issue of reporting the ad duration in the content session when same player instance is used for both ad and content sessions.

More Details: Conviva JavaScript Integration

Code Access: Download Package

Android Core SDK 4.0.33 Upgrade

  • Supports Media3 Exoplayer module

More Details: Conviva Android Integration

Code Access: Download Package

Android Exoplayer 4.1.0 Module Upgrade

  • Supports Exoplayer 2.18.7

  • Supports Media3 Exoplayer 1.0.2

  • This version is not compatible with 4.0.32 and below versions of Conviva Android Core SDK.

More Details: Conviva Android Integration

Code Access: Download Package

June 2023

JavaScript Brightcove 4.5.0 Module Upgrade

  • Supports Brightcove Player 7.7.0 version

  • Fixes the issue in reporting custom error events using the trigger() API

More Details: Brightcove Sensor Integration

Code Access: Download Package

JavaScript VideoJS 4.3.0 Module Upgrade

  • Supports Video.js player version 8.3.0

More Details:Conviva JavaScript Integration

Code Access: Download Package

May 2023

Roku 3.5.1 Module Upgrade

  • Fixes the application crash issue that occurred with the endMonitoring() API call.

  • Code refactoring

More Details: Roku SceneGraph Sensor Integration

Code Access: Downloads: Roku: SceneGraph

April 2023

Support for Reporting Audio, Subtitle, or Closed Caption Languages

All major Conviva platforms such as Android, iOS, JS, Roku, Web Brightcove, XBox, and C SDK now support reporting the audio, subtitle, or closed captions language values. These language event details enable customers to analyze scenarios like the impact of subtitle change on VPF and VRT.

Most of the Conviva modules auto-collect the language details during session start, and upon a change event. In case of custom integrations, use the new APIs to report the language details. To know more about the new APIs, refer to the video players integration section of the platform integration pages on the Learning Center:

More Details: Android, JavaScript, iOS/tvOS, Roku, Web Brightcove, C SDK, Windows XBox

Code Access: Download Package:

Android

ExoPlayer 4.0.18

Brightcove 4.0.8

iOS

AVPlayer 4.0.43

Brightcove 4.0.25

JavaScript

VideoJS 4.2.1

Roku

Roku 3.5.0

C SDK

C SDK v2.180.0.4

Web Brightcove

JS SDK 4.7.0

JS Brightcove 4.4.1

XBox/Windows

Conviva UWP 2.180.0.3

 

  


February 2023

API Support for Average Bitrate for Core SDK 4.6.1 and Above

  • JavaScript

    • Added a new constant AVG_BITRATE to report the average bitrate.

    • The existing bitrate is considered as Peak Bitrate.

    • Fixes a crash issue in playlist scenarios when switching to next video.

    More Details: Conviva JavaScript Integration

    Code Access: VideoJS 4.1.13 , JS Core SDK 4.6.1

  • Android

    • Added a new constant AVG_BITRATE to report the average bitrate.

    • The existing bitrate is considered as Peak Bitrate.

    More Details: Conviva Android Integration

    Code Access: Download Package

  • iOS

    • Added a new constant AVG_BITRATE to report the average bitrate.

    • The existing bitrate is considered as Peak Bitrate.

    More Details: Conviva iOS Integration

    Code Access: Download Package

  • Web Brightcove 4.3.6

    • Supports auto collection of Average Bitrate.

    • The existing bitrate is now considered as the Peak Bitrate.

    More Details: Conviva Web Brightcove Integration

    Code Access: Download Package

  • Windows

    • Introduces the setAverageBitrate() API to support setting the average bitrate.

    • Modifies the existing bitrate to peak bitrate.

    More Details: Conviva Windows Sensor Integration

    Code Access: Download Package

  • C SDK 2.179.0.4

    • Introduces the set_average_bitrate() API to support setting the average bitrate.

    • Modifies the set_stream() API documentation for Peak Bitrate.

    More Details: C Sensor Integration

    Code Access: Download Package

Windows SDK Update

Conviva Windows SDK 2.178.1.0 fixes the ad.csid tag issue for Ad session.

More Details: Conviva Windows Sensor Integration

Code Access: Download Package

Brightcove Support for tvOS

Conviva Brightcove 4.0.22/4.0.23 module now supports Brightcove iOS/tvOS SDK 6.12.0.

More Details: iOS/tvOS Sensor Integration
Code Access: Download Package

January 2023

JavaScript Brightcove Module Upgrade

Conviva-js-brightcove 4.3.5 fixes an issue where Ad metadata was not being reported as Conviva predefined constant.

More Details: Brightcove Sensor Integration

Code Access: Download Package

JavaScript Brightcove Module Upgrade

  • The JavaScript Brightcove module library, 4.3.4, supports Brightcove Player 6.66.8, VideoJs 7.20.4, and Google IMA3 V3.

  • It fixes the issue of reporting Conviva pre-defined content metadata using convivatags.

More Details: Brightcove Sensor Integration

Code Access: Download Package

iOS Brightcove Module Upgrade

The latest iOS Brightcove library, 4.0.21, supports the Brightcove iOS SDK 6.11.2.

More Details: iOS/tvOS Sensor Integration

Code Access: Download Package

 

 

Sensor Releases 2022

December 2022

Roku Module Upgrade

Roku 3.4.8 library fixes an issue where buffering was not reported during content underrun.

More Details: Roku SceneGraph Sensor Integration

Code Access: Downloads: Roku: SceneGraph

Android Brightcove Module Upgrade

The Android Brightcove 4.0.7 library now supports Brightcove Player 7.1.4.

More Details: Android Sensor Integration

Code Access: Download Package

Conviva Integration Assistant Plugin for Android Players

This release introduces the Conviva Integration Assistant Plugin for Android, which helps you integrate Android players with only a few clicks. You can download this plugin from the Android Integration Assistant plugin page and follow the instructions to install and use it.

  • To simplify integration, the plugin automatically adds the SDK dependencies to your Android project.

  • It generates the ConvivaHelper.java file with all the code that is required to invoke the integration.

  • It also lists the Advanced Use Cases for Android integration.

More Details: Android Integration Assistant Plugin

Roku Module Upgrade

With Roku 3.4.7 library, the endMonitoring API call removes any stopped ConvivaPlayerMonitor task nodes from videoNode.

More Details:Roku SceneGraph Sensor Integration

Code Access:Downloads: Roku: SceneGraph

November 2022

Roku Module Upgrade

Roku 3.4.6 library now supports Google DAI 3.60.0.

More Details: Roku SceneGraph Sensor Integration

Code Access: Downloads: Roku: SceneGraph

September 2022

Brightcove Module Upgrade

The updated Conviva_SDK_JavaScript_BrightcovePlugin_4.3.3 module now supports:

  • Brightcove Player 6.66.4

  • Video.js 7.20.1

  • Google IMA3 V3

More Details: Brightcove Player Plugin Integration

Code Access: Download Package

Video.js Upgrade

Updates the Conviva_SDK_JavaScript_video.js_4.1.11 SDK.

  • It now supports Video.js 7.20.1

  • It fixes an issue where bitrate wasn't reported for streams without textTracks.

More Details: JavaScript Video.js

Code Access: Download Package

Roku Module Upgrade

Roku 3.4.5 integration now supports:

  • Roku OS 11.5

  • YoSpace 3.4.2

  • Roku ID for Advertising (RIDA) collection

    The module fixes issues with:

    • YoSpace module not auto collecting the bitrate.

    • Server-side ad sessions not copying metrics from content sessions.

    • The collection of c3.app.version when custom tags aren't set.

More Details: Roku SceneGraph Sensor Integration

Code Access: Download Package

Support for iOS 16 & Brightcove Player upgrade

Brightcove SDK now supports:

  • iOS 16

  • Brightcove iOS SDK 6.10.6

More Details: iOS/tvOS

Code Access: Download Package

Support for Ad Integration in XBox Player for Windows

The XBox Ad integration (v2.178.0.0) includes:

  • Support for Ad Experience
  • New API for creation of Ad Session
  • New API to report Ad Break Start or Ad Break End on the Main Session

More Details: XBox Player for Windows

Code Access: Download Package

 

 

Conviva APIs

 

Conviva APIs

 

Metrics V3 API

Retrieves historical and real-time metrics for building custom dashboards or applications.

March 27, 2024

Session V3 API

Retrieves viewer experience by combining statuses, metrics, and dimensional metadata.

May 23, 2024

March 27, 2024

Bulk Filters API

Manages saved filter settings via API, allowing retrieval, modification, creation, and deletion of filters.

AI Alerts API

Determines the impact of impact of the alert condition based on the given severity level.

Precision Policy API

Manages Precision filters and policies, activating one or more and rearranging filters.

 

PII Opt-Out API

Removes Personally Identifiable Information (PII) data using viewer IDs,and view PII request status.

 

 

2024 Releases

May 23, 2024

  • Sessions V3 API:

    • Allows ?Limit={N} in the query parameter to control the number of sessions in the response.

    • Displays IP and IPv6 information in the network_info section of the API response.

    More Details: Sessions V3 API

March 31, 2024

  • Conviva's Metrics V2 API, Sessions V2 API, and Viewers Module API:

    • The V2 APIs are deprecated. Use the V3 version of these APIs to take advantage of the new capabilities. The AI Alerts API, Precision Policy API, and PII Opt-Out API are not part of this migration.

    More Details: Metrics V3 API and Sessions V3 API

March 27, 2024

  • Metrics V3 API and Sessions V3 API:

    • Improves to retrieve metrics and viewer sessions based on a given time range. The default time range will no more be effective for retrieving the historical metrics and session data.

    More Details: Metrics V3 API and Sessions V3 API