How to Monitor Cloud Firewall in Akamai Cloud

An offline firewall is an open door. Site24x7 monitors your Akamai Cloud Firewall status and availability in real time, ensuring IT and security teams receive immediate alerts when firewall protection becomes unavailable, so they can act quickly and reduce the window of exposure.

Use cases

Here are some use cases for Cloud Firewall monitoring:

Protection continuity: The Summary tab shows the firewall's status and availability in real time, helping security teams quickly spot disruptions to protection and take action before the risk increases.
Availability adherence: Tracking Availability over time helps teams understand if firewall uptime meets internal policies and regulatory standards, with clear data to back it up.

Benefits of Cloud Firewall in Akamai Cloud monitoring

Security protection: Detect firewall outages in real time to minimize exposure risks during service disruptions and support enhanced compliance and reporting.
Compliance reporting: Building on real-time outage detection, tracking downtime incidents and durations supports security audits and governance requirements.
Instant response: Receive immediate notifications when firewall status changes. As a result, monitoring and reporting enable faster remediation of security gaps.

Setup and configuration

Firewall 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 Firewall from the Service/Resource Types drop-down and click Save.
Go to Cloud > Akamai Cloud, select the created Akamai monitor, and then click Firewall.

Note

Cloud Firewall 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 Cloud Firewall are collected and updated in the Site24x7 portal every five minutes by default.

Monitor data

The monitored data for Cloud Firewall monitor is given below.

Summary

The Summary tab surfaces the real-time operational status of each Cloud Firewall resource, including its availability state, total downtime duration, number of downtime incidents, and SLA achievement, providing an immediate, at-a-glance view of whether your firewall is active and protecting your network as expected.

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