Telestream’s Live Look offers visual confirmation at scale

Telestream has announced the release of ARGUS v2.3, which introduces Live Look, a new feature that enables operators to visually and audibly inspect live and on-demand streams directly within the ARGUS monitoring environment. 

Designed for rapid validation of service health and quality, Live Look brings real-time video playback and audio confirmation to the ARGUS consolidated dashboard, allowing operators to see and hear exactly what viewers experience and take decisive action to resolve the issue without switching between tools or interfaces.

ARGUS, Telestream iQ’s powerful centralised video monitoring solution for video distribution networks, provides users with an end-to-end view of media health diagnostics through high-level dashboards and deep-dive analytics. With ARGUS Live Look, media operations teams can quickly isolate issues, reduce time to recovery, and improve confidence across the entire delivery workflow.

Ken Haren, Director of Product Management, Telestream, said, “ARGUS centralises correlated channel observability across the entire delivery chain and at scale. ARGUS helps operations teams focus on what matters by surfacing precise, timely, and actionable insights. 

“With the launch of ARGUS v2.3 and the new Live Look capability, teams can now view any monitored stream in real-time directly in the ARGUS dashboard, enhancing diagnostic confidence and speeding up escalation decisions.” 

Most monitoring systems require operators to pivot between dashboards and third-party tools for signal validation. With Live Look, ARGUS advances this workflow into a single, streamlined experience. Users can instantly verify impairment alarms, assess their actual impact, escalate with greater confidence, and reduce mean time to repair (MTTR) while improving operational efficiency.

Live Look directly addresses a long-standing need for visual confirmation at scale, especially valuable for organisations managing hundreds of linear or over-the-top (OTT) channels across distributed operations. From verifying audio presence to confirming editorial intent when silence or anomalies are detected, Live Look provides immediate “eyes on glass” insight without leaving the ARGUS environment. 

Beyond Live Look, ARGUS v2.3 delivers several significant updates that streamline management, improve security, and optimise monitoring performance. ARGUS simplifies authentication with integrated support for third-party Single Sign-On (SSO)/Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), reducing administrative overhead and ensuring consistent access policies across deployments.

Together, these features reinforce ARGUS as the most scalable, consolidated platform for multi-point, multi-format observability, helping operators focus on actionable insight rather than manual data correlation.