How to monitor Images in Akamai Cloud

Site24x7 monitors the status of your Akamai Cloud's Images resources in real time, tracking availability and downtime. This allows IT teams to detect disruptions in image accessibility before they obstruct provisioning workflows.

Use case

Image accessibility: The Summary tab shows the status and availability of your cloud images in real time, helping teams quickly spot when an image becomes unavailable and avoid deployment delays.

Downtime awareness: Tracking Downtime counts and duration over time helps you understand how often image issues occur and their impact, making it easier to plan for redundancy or to use alternative regions.

Operational compliance: Availability data across selected periods helps teams assess whether image uptime meets internal standards, supporting audits and operational reporting.

Setup and configuration

Images resources are auto-discovered and monitored during 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 Image from the Service/Resource Types drop-down and click Save.
Go to Cloud > Akamai Cloud, select the created Akamai monitor, and then click Image.

Note

Images 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 Cloud Images are collected every five minutes and are updated in the Site24x7 portal every five minutes by default.

Supported metrics

Summary

The Summary tab provides real-time visibility into the availability state of each cloud image, including uptime history, downtime incidents, and SLA compliance, so you can quickly confirm whether an image is accessible and ready to back instance deployments.

These summary metrics are critical for teams that rely on custom images for automated provisioning, as an unavailable or deleted image can silently block the creation of new instances.