How to monitor Images in Akamai Cloud

Site24x7 monitors the status of your Akamai Cloud's Images resources in real time, tracking availability and downtime. This allows IT teams to detect disruptions in image accessibility before they obstruct provisioning workflows.

Use cases

Here are some use cases for Images monitoring:

Image accessibility: The Summary tab shows the status and availability of your cloud images in real time, helping teams quickly spot when an image becomes unavailable and avoid deployment delays.
Downtime awareness: Tracking Downtime counts and duration over time helps you understand how often image issues occur and their impact, making it easier to plan for redundancy or to use alternative regions.

Benefits of Images in Akamai Cloud monitoring

Trend visibility: Use downtime data to support proactive redundancy and inform audit records, leveraging real-time alerts to monitor recurring issues.
Audit readiness: Maintain historical records of image availability, built from trend tracking and downtime alerts, to support reviews and compliance.
Immediate awareness: Receive alerts when images become unavailable, triggering actions that strengthen deployment reliability and inform overall monitoring.

Setup and configuration

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

Note

Images 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 Images is collected every five minutes and are updated in the Site24x7 portal every five minutes by default.

Monitor data

Summary

The Summary tab provides real-time visibility into the availability state of each cloud image, including uptime history, downtime incidents, and SLA compliance, so you can quickly confirm whether an image is accessible and ready to back instance deployments.

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