Akamai Cloud Pulse provides real-time insight into the performance, availability, and reliability of workloads running across your cloud environment. It brings together metrics, alerts, and logs to help you understand system behavior, detect issues early, and maintain the health of your applications and infrastructure.

Metrics are the first monitoring capability delivered for NodeBalancers. Alerts and logs are planned for future releases.

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Limited availability

Akamai Cloud Pulse metrics for NodeBalancers are currently in limited availability and may not be accessible from your account. To gain access, please open a support ticket and request to join the limited availability program for this feature.

Metrics (Limited availability)

Metrics provide time-series data about the service's usage, performance, and operational behavior. Metrics are automatically collected by Akamai Cloud Pulse and can be viewed in dashboards, queried, exported, accessed through the Linode API, or used to define alerting thresholds.

Key features include:

• Automatic metrics collection. Akamai Cloud Pulse automatically collects and stores metrics for NodeBalancers
• Visualization and analysis. Explore performance using metrics dashboards that present key indicators and trends.
• Programmatic access. Retrieve metrics using the Linode API.
• Metrics export. Export metrics for analysis using external observability tools. The Akamai Distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector for Akamai Cloud Pulse exposes metrics for ingestion by your chosen visualization and analysis tools.

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Data retention period

For NodeBalancers, Akamai stores 93 days of historical metrics data. If you would like to use data outside of the 93 day window, you must export your metrics data to another storage location. See Export metrics to external tools for details on how to export data to alternative storage locations.

More Information

To learn more about Akamai Cloud Pulse monitoring capabilities, see Monitor Cloud Services.

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Differences between NodeBalancer's summary stats and Cloud Pulse Metrics

The summary stats in the NodeBalancer application and the Cloud Pulse Metrics dashboard present different types of data. The NodeBalancer summary provides traffic, connection, and backend health statistics based on network interface activity. In contrast, the Cloud Pulse Metrics dashboard offers detailed monitoring data that you can filter and export.

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Billing

Metrics do not include all billable items on your account. For consistent and reliable reconciliation, use the Billing API.