The CSS console provides configurations for you to quickly implement basic features such as CSS domain name management, CSS stream management, transcoding and recording. In addition, it enables you to perform various operations such as web push, acceleration configuration, resource monitoring and log management.

Prerequisites

• You have activated the CSS service.
• You have logged in to the CSS console.

Overview

Click Overview on the left sidebar, and you can view the relevant data such as yesterday's traffic fees, real-time data of live streaming, number of concurrent connections, and the trends in billable bandwidth and traffic in the last few days, switch the billing mode, or change the time granularity. You can click Beginner's Guide in the top-right corner to view the directions for getting started with CSS.

Billing overview

Switch the billing mode
If the current billing mode is daily billing, you can click Switch in the Yesterday's Traffic Usage statistical item to view the billing mode switch reminder. Click OK to switch the billing mode. For more information on billing mode switch, please see Changing Billing Mode.

For more information, see CSS Pricing.

Today's data

It displays the downstream peak bandwidth, downstream traffic usage, and number of concurrent connections in CSS for today.

Usage trend

It mainly displays the CSS usage trends for today, yesterday, last 7 days, and last 30 days, including the "bandwidth trend" and "traffic trend".

Change time granularity

The CSS console allows you to change the time granularity used when viewing the trends in billable bandwidth or traffic by clicking Time Granularity and selecting the desired option on the right.