How to monitor Linode in Akamai Cloud
Monitor your Akamai Cloud Linodes to keep track of CPU usage, disk performance, and network traffic in real time across your infrastructure. This helps you catch performance issues early, before they impact your workloads or end users.
Use case
Here are some use cases for Linode monitoring:
Rapid scaling: During traffic spikes, teams can spin up additional Linode instances as needed to handle the extra load and keep applications running smoothly.
Resource optimization: By monitoring CPU and disk usage, teams can identify underused Linodes, resize them as needed, and shift resources to more critical workloads, helping reduce unnecessary costs.
Benefits of Linode in Akamai Cloud monitoring
- Performance assurance: Identify CPU saturation and I/O bottlenecks in real time with proactive monitoring, preventing them from degrading application performance.
- Network visibility: Analyse IPv4 and IPv6 traffic patterns to immediately detect abnormal spikes, bandwidth issues, or connectivity failures.
- Memory stability: Monitor swap usage to expose early memory stress and avert performance drops during demanding workloads.
- Faster response: Set threshold-based alerts for CPU, disk, and network data to inform teams instantly when metrics diverge from expected norms.
- Root-Cause analysis: Combine CPU, memory, and disk I/O data in a unified view to speed troubleshooting and minimise investigation time.
Setup and configuration
Linode 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 Linode from the Service/Resource Types drop-down and click Save.
- Go to Cloud > Akamai Cloud, select the created Akamai monitor, and then click Linode.
Linode 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 Linode are collected every two minutes and are updated in the Site24x7 portal at the same frequency by default.
Supported metrics
|
Metric name |
Description |
Statistics |
Units |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inbound IPv4 network traffic | Total data received by the instance over the public IPv4 interface | Average | Bits/second |
| Outbound IPv4 network traffic | Total data transmitted by the instance over the IPv4 network interface. | Average | Bits/second |
| Inbound IPv4 network traffic (private network) | Data received by the instance over the private IPv4 network interface. | Average | Bits/second |
| Outbound IPv4 network traffic (private network) | Data transmitted by the instance over the private IPv4 network interface. | Average | Bits/second |
| Inbound IPv6 network traffic | Total data received by the instance over the public IPv6 interface. | Average | Bits/second |
| Outbound IPv6 network traffic | Total data transmitted by the instance over the public IPv6 interface. | Average | Bits/second |
| Inbound IPv6 network traffic (private network) | Data received by the instance over the private IPv6 network interface. | Average | Bits/second |
| Outbound IPv6 network traffic (private network) | Data transmitted by the instance over the private IPv6 network interface. | Average | Bits/second |
| CPU | Percentage of total CPU capacity currently used by the Linode instance across all virtual cores. | Average | Percentage |
| I/O Operations (IOPS) | Rate of disk read and write operations performed by the instance storage. | Average | Bytes/second |
| I/O Swap | Rate of data being swapped between RAM and swap disk space. | Average | Bytes/second |
Threshold configuration
You can configure thresholds and alerts for all Linode metrics to detect performance degradation proactively or connection issues.
- Go to Admin > Configuration Profiles > Threshold and Availability.
- Create or edit your Threshold Profile for Linode.
- Assign the profile to the respective monitors to trigger alerts.
For monitor-level configuration, navigate to Cloud > Akamai Cloud > Linode
- Choose a resource for which you would like to set a threshold, then click the hamburger icon
. - Select Edit, which directs you to the Edit Akamai Linode Monitor page.
- You can set the threshold values for the metrics by clicking the pencil icon
next to the Threshold and Availability.
IT Automation
Use Site24x7's IT Automation to resolve common issues with Linode performance:
- Go to Admin > IT Automation Templates. Then, click Add Automation Templates.
- Create an automation rule by selecting the automation Type (e.g., Server reboot, clear queue).
- Map the created rules to the Linode, for automatic execution during alerts.
Configuration rules
Use Configuration Rules to simplify bulk setup across Linode instances. Automatically assign Threshold Profiles, Notification Profiles, Tags, and Monitor Groups when new monitors are discovered.