To understand this API's various URL resources and the data it exchanges, familiarize yourself with these concepts:

  • Metrics: Metrics contain telemetry collected from Akamai networks or your flow-based monitoring (FBM) netflow exports.

  • Metric types: Metric types encapsulate the available types of data from the metrics endpoint.

  • Attack reports: Attack reports created by the SOCC regarding attack events of interest that occur within your traffic.

  • Events: A list of security events with information on the location of the event and additional attack information.

  • Critical events: A list of security events marked with the highest level severity.

  • Time series: Time series usage and attack data for individual destination IP addresses.