How to Monitor Block Storage in Akamai Cloud

Site24x7 continuously monitors your Akamai Cloud Block Storage status and availability, alerting IT teams right away when volumes become unreachable, so they can act before it impacts access.

Use cases

Here are some use cases for Block Storage monitoring:

Storage availability: The Summary tab shows the status and availability of your block storage in real time, helping teams quickly spot when volumes become unavailable before applications are affected.
Downtime accountability: Tracking Downtime counts and duration provides teams with a clear timeline of storage outages, making it easier to review incidents and plan for improved redundancy or replication.

Benefits of Block Storage in Akamai Cloud monitoring

Application continuity: Detect volume outages before they cause read/write failures or application disruptions, enabling timely alerts and supporting outage tracking.
Faster recovery: Get alerted when volumes become unreachable via application continuity detection, reducing remediation time and feeding data to outage tracking and SLA reporting.

Setup and configuration

Block Storage resources are auto-discovered and monitored during Akamai integration. To enable monitoring, follow the steps below:

Log in to Site24x7.
Navigate to Cloud > Akamai > Add Akamai Cloud Monitor. Follow the steps to add an Akamai monitor.
While adding or editing an Akamai monitor, select Block Storage from the Service/Resource Types drop-down and click Save.
Go to Cloud > Akamai Cloud, select the created Akamai monitor, and then click Block Storage.

Note

Block Storage will be discovered during the next discovery cycle as per the discovery frequency you selected during Akamai monitor creation.

Data collection frequency

Based on the configured poll interval, the status of your Akamai Block Storage are collected and updated in the Site24x7 portal every five minutes by default.

Monitor data

Summary

The Summary tab provides a real-time overview of the availability status for each Block Storage volume. It includes information such as the count and duration of downtime as well as whether service-level agreements (SLAs) are being met.

Outages

The Outages tab displays outage details, including start time, end time, duration, and related comments, to facilitate tracking and reviewing downtime events.

Notes

The Notes tab allows you to record descriptions, operational context, runbook steps, recent changes, or reference links to keep your team informed. Format content using Markdown syntax.

Log Reports

The Log Reports tab provides a unified view of the Block Storage monitor's log status and enables CSV report downloads for analysis and auditing.

Alert Logs

The Alert Logs tab presents a chronological list of alerts triggered by the Block Storage monitor, supporting alert history review, severity analysis, and threshold validation.