How to monitor Domains in Akamai Cloud

Site24x7 continuously monitors Domains in Akamai Cloud by tracking operational status and downtime in real time so IT teams can detect DNS or domain-level disruptions before they affect user access across services.

Use cases

Here are some use cases for Domains monitoring:

Domain status: The Summary tab provides a quick overview of your domain's availability and status, helping teams quickly detect outages and avoid extended service disruptions.
SLA reporting: Availability data over selected periods helps teams measure domain uptime against SLA targets, supporting reporting, compliance, and reliability checks.

Benefits of Domains in Akamai Cloud monitoring

Service availability: Detect DNS zone outages before they impact application accessibility and user traffic routing.
Issue identification: Track downtime trends to distinguish isolated incidents from recurring DNS reliability problems.
Early warning: Receive alerts when domains become unavailable, enabling rapid remediation before users are affected.

Setup and configuration

Domain resources are auto-discovered and monitored during the 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 Domain from the Service/Resource Types drop-down and click Save.
Navigate to Cloud > Akamai Cloud, select the created Akamai monitor, and then click Domain.

Note

Domain 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, performance metrics of your Akamai Domain are collected and updated in the Site24x7 portal every five minutes by default.

Monitor data

Summary

The Summary tab displays the availability status, downtime history, and SLA metrics for each domain resource, providing a clear, continuous record of whether your DNS zones are active and serving correctly.

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 Domains 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 Domains monitor, supporting alert history review, severity analysis, and threshold validation.