Canary Monitor for HLS and DASH Streams

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Synthetic probe that periodically fetches HLS/DASH manifests and ad-tracking beacons, detecting stale segments, manifest regressions, DASH period-set changes and missing availabilityStartTime.

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Category path: General Tools›Performance & Monitoring Tools
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Canary Monitor for HLS and DASH Streams is cataloged in General Tools and Performance & Monitoring Tools.

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