How to monitor Managed Database in Akamai Cloud

Site24x7 monitors the availability of your Akamai Cloud's Managed Databases in real time, continuously tracking its status and outages so IT teams can respond before application failures cause service disruptions.

Use case

Database uptime: The Summary tab shows your database status and availability in real time, helping administrators quickly detect outages and initiate recovery before they affect dependent services.

Outage history: Tracking downtime count and duration gives you a clear record of database outages over time, making it easier to spot recurring issues and decide when to fix or escalate them.

SLA Validation: Availability data over a selected period helps teams verify that databases are meeting uptime commitments, providing clear insights for reporting and performance tracking.

Setup and configuration

The Managed databases resources are auto-discovered and monitored during the Akamai integration. To enable monitoring, follow the steps below:

Navigate to Cloud > Akamai > Add Akamai Cloud Monitor. Follow the steps to add an Akamai monitor.
While adding or editing an Akamai monitor, select Managed Database from the Service/Resource Types drop-down and click Save.
Go to Cloud > Akamai Cloud, select the created Akamai monitor, and then click Managed Database.

Note

Managed databases 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 Managed Databases are collected and updated in the Site24x7 portal every five minutes by default.

Supported metrics

Summary

The Summary tab provides a quick overview of each database instance's operational status. It includes information on availability, the number of downtime incidents, total downtime duration, and SLA achievement. This allows you to verify that your managed databases are online and meeting reliability standards.

Such visibility is particularly important for production workloads, as even brief periods of database unavailability can lead to significant application failures.