# Keeping track of users playing live streams (HTTP streaming)

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/keeping-track-of-users-playing-live-streams-http-streaming/43645>\
**Category:** Wowza Developer Dojo\
**Tags:** wowza-streaming-server-java-api\
**Created:** [September 26, 2014, 8:23pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/keeping-track-of-users-playing-live-streams-http-streaming/43645 "2014-09-26T20:23:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![Gaurav\_Mishra1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@Gaurav\_Mishra1](https://community.wowza.com/u/Gaurav_Mishra1)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2014, 8:23pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/keeping-track-of-users-playing-live-streams-http-streaming/43645/1 "2014-09-26T20:23:42Z")

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Hi,

Is there a way to keep track of which (not just number but actual identity ) users are playing a live stream via HDS or HLS . I know these are not persistent connections to the wowza servers but i am hoping to put in some heuristics like ‘if no requests for data for 30 secs then consider a client disconnected’. Is there a module which gets called everytime when a client requests for next packet of data.

I want to do this to gain some inisights like which users stopped watching a stream before certain threshold of time.

-Gaurav

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**Author:** ![Paul\_Shields](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/paul_shields/32/390_2.png) [@Paul\_Shields](https://community.wowza.com/u/Paul_Shields)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2014, 6:14pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/keeping-track-of-users-playing-live-streams-http-streaming/43645/2 "2014-09-26T18:14:11Z")

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Hi,

If you’re playing your stream via an embedded web client such as JW Player or Flowplayer (and possibly others) through a content management system then [this custom code](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-track-streaming-by-users) may help. There is also [this example](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-log-client-count-and-metadata-for-a-stream-every-10-seconds-modulelogviewercounts) available in our [module collection](https://www.wowza.com/docs/utility-modules-for-wowza-streaming-engine-media-server-software) that may help or be used as a basis for more detailed tracking.

Kind regards,

Paul

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**Author:** ![system](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/system/32/447_2.png) [@system](https://community.wowza.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2014, 9:55pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/keeping-track-of-users-playing-live-streams-http-streaming/43645/3 "2014-09-26T21:55:24Z")

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Hi gauravmishra, there are client tracking solutions, please PM me as the forum rules don’t allow advertising outside of the Showcase topic if you are interested.