Understanding how cloud services behave in real time is essential for maintaining performance, reliability, and security. Akamai Cloud Pulse provides a unified way to observe activity, analyze trends, and respond to issues across Akamai Cloud services.

Akamai's monitoring features allow you to collect and act on operational data without additional tooling or complex setup. Whether you're troubleshooting an issue, tracking usage patterns, or setting up proactive monitoring, these features give you the visibility you need.

What's included

Akamai Cloud Pulse is built on three core capabilities:

• Logs. Audit events for control plane operations are automatically captured for supported services. To access and analyze this data, you'll configure a stream to deliver logs to a destination, such as an Object Storage bucket or a custom HTTPS endpoint. Audit logs provide an authoritative historical record that supports troubleshooting, monitoring, and security analysis.
• Metrics. Metrics are automatically collected and stored for Managed Databases. Metrics provide insight into performance, usage, and overall behavior. You can explore metrics in dashboards in Cloud Manager, retrieve them using the Linode API, or export them to external tools for analysis.
• Alerts. Alerts help you monitor key metrics and detect unusual or important behavior early, so you can investigate and resolve issues before they impact users or other parts of your system. Akamai Cloud Pulse includes predefined system alerts that notify you of critical events. You can also configure custom user alerts to send notifications when metrics thresholds or conditions are met.

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Feature availability

Metrics and Alerts are currently in limited availability for Managed Databases. Logs are not currently available, but will become available in the near future.

For a broader introduction to monitoring concepts and capabilities, see Monitor cloud services . For concepts and terminology, see Monitoring concepts and terminology.

Service-specific details

While the underlying capabilities are consistent across services, the specific data available—such as metrics types, logs contents, and supported dimensions—vary by service.

See the following topics for monitoring details specific to Managed Databases:

• Managed Databases metrics
• Managed Databases audit logs
• System alert settings