



Traffic Monitor provides a view into CDN health using several RESTful JSON endpoints, which are consumed by other Traffic Monitors and downstream components such as Traffic Router. Health Protocol governs the cache server and Delivery Service availability. Traffic Monitors operate independently, but use the state of other Traffic Monitors in conjunction with their own state to provide a consistent view of CDN cache server health to downstream applications such as Traffic Router. A given CDN can operate a number of Traffic Monitors, from a number of geographically diverse locations, to prevent false positives caused by network problems at a given site. These metrics are for use in determining the overall “health” of a given cache server and the related Delivery Services. Traffic Monitor is an HTTP service that monitors the cache servers in a CDN for a variety of metrics.
