Hydrolix wins Gold Globee Award for CDN observability

Hydrolix won a Gold Globee Award in media and entertainment technology for its CDN Insights platform, which handled real-time observability during Super Bowl 2025. The win adds to a six-month streak of nine industry awards and recognitions as the company expands its profile in data observability and AI bot management.

Why it matters: - Live streaming operators need to spot CDN problems before viewers see them. - Hydrolix says CDN Insights lets teams query petabytes of log data in real time and cut incident response to minutes. - The award adds validation in a market where observability, retention and speed are tied directly to viewer experience and revenue.

What happened: - Hydrolix won a Gold Globee Award in the 21st Annual 2026 Globee Awards for Technology. - The company received Best of Category recognition in Media and Entertainment Technology. - CDN Insights was recognized for delivering real-time CDN observability during Super Bowl 2025. - Hydrolix also landed on CRN’s 2026 Big Data 100 list in the Data Observability category. - The announcement came from Portland, Oregon, on July 1, 2026.

The details: - The Gold Globee Award is the program’s top tier. - Entries must score 8.50 or above out of 10.0. - More than 180 independent judges reviewed the nominations. - The 2026 program received more than 875 nominations. - Only entries meeting the merit threshold earned recognition. - Hydrolix said the Gold Best of Category result reflected the highest overall score in its category. - CDN Insights is an out-of-the-box observability tool for content delivery infrastructure. - The platform gives streaming teams visibility across single- and multi-CDN environments without custom engineering. - Pre-built integrations cover 80% of major CDN providers, including Akamai, Fastly, Cloudflare, Tencent and Amazon CloudFront. - The system normalizes telemetry into a unified model and turns raw logs into actionable insights in seconds. - During Super Bowl 2025, CDN Insights enabled real-time queries across petabytes of CDN log data. - The platform helped teams find root causes faster and protect the viewing experience for millions of concurrent viewers. - Hydrolix customers have resolved CDN incidents in as little as nine minutes. - The company ties that benchmark to sub-second query performance and full-fidelity data retention. - CDN Insights supports apples-to-apples comparisons across multiple CDNs and rapid root cause analysis during incidents. - Bot Insights is Hydrolix’s separate product for AI bot visibility and management. - Bot Insights gives CISOs, CTOs and executive teams historical data for strategic bot policy management. - Bot Insights categorizes traffic by user agent and tracks AI bot trends by vendor, request volume and crawl frequency. - Hydrolix said the company has earned at least nine industry awards and recognitions in six months. - That run includes growth rankings, analyst inclusion, trade show honors and product category leadership. - The list includes a third consecutive Data Breakthrough Award win for Data Observability Solution Provider of the Year. - Other recognitions include Best of Show at NAB 2026 for CDN Insights, Akamai ISV North America Partner of the Year 2025, and rankings in Inc. 2026 Regionals: Pacific and the Portland Business Journal’s fastest-growing private companies list. - Hydrolix was also named a sample vendor in Gartner Hype Cycle reports for SRE and Security Operations. - TechRound ranked Hydrolix No. 4 on its AI45 2026 list.

Between the lines: - The mix of awards suggests Hydrolix is trying to position itself as infrastructure, not just a point solution. - The company is emphasizing two adjacent pain points: streaming observability and AI bot visibility. - The repeated focus on speed, retention and scale signals a pitch to customers who cannot afford to sample or discard data. - Sean McCarthy, head of OTT live engineering at YouTube, said the ability to query petabytes in real time without pre-aggregating or losing history is a genuine operational advantage.

What's next: - Hydrolix is likely to keep using awards, analyst mentions and customer use cases to expand market visibility. - The company’s next growth story appears tied to broader adoption of CDN Insights and Bot Insights across large-scale streaming and security teams. - Hydrolix says it now serves more than 650 customers globally and will continue targeting enterprises that need real-time analytics at internet scale.

The bottom line: - Hydrolix is turning product performance into market credibility, and the latest Globee win strengthens its pitch to streaming and security teams that need answers in seconds, not minutes.