Akamai insights

AWS Network Load Balancer fails to route traffic to App & API Protector EC2 instances, resulting in no protection coverage for applications.

EC2 instances running App & API Protector Hybrid fail to appear in the Akamai Control Center Instances list, preventing management and monitoring of the protection layer.

Unpredictable audience behavior or regional traffic spikes cause some edge caches to be overrun while others are underused, resulting in increased origin load and user-facing stalls.

Systems handle normal load but buckle during synchronized traffic surges (millions of concurrent users) during live events, flash sales, or payroll runs, requiring load testing and observability to identify failure points.

EdgeWorkers deployed at edge fail or behave incorrectly, but lack of logging prevents debugging, anomaly detection, and root cause identification, forcing reliance on manual header inspection.

Akamai Managed Database instances experience CPU, memory, or disk exhaustion impacting application performance, but lack of observability prevents early detection and proactive response.

Enterprise Application Access connector cannot reach application origin server, causing 'App is down' status despite connector being healthy.

Kerberized applications are inaccessible through EAA connector due to incorrect SPN configuration, KDC unreachability, or clock synchronization issues.

EAA connectors experience CPU, memory, or network issues that degrade application access, but lack of metrics streaming to SIEM prevents proactive monitoring, investigation, and visualization.

Real-world user experience degrades as measured by Largest Contentful Paint, Interaction to Next Paint, and Time to First Byte, but lack of observability prevents identifying root causes and measuring improvement impact.