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 Object Storage. 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 Object Storage. 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. You can configure custom user alerts to send notifications when metrics thresholds or conditions are met.

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—varies by service.

See the following topics for monitoring details specific to Object Storage: