How to Monitor Block Storage in Akamai Cloud

Site24x7 continuously monitors your Akamai Cloud Block Storage status and availability, alerting IT teams right away when volumes become unreachable, so they can act before it impacts access.

Use case

Storage availability: The Summary tab shows the status and availability of your block storage in real time, helping teams quickly spot when volumes become unavailable before applications are affected.

Downtime accountability: Tracking Downtime counts and duration provides teams with a clear timeline of storage outages, making it easier to review incidents and plan for improved redundancy or replication.

SLA compliance: Availability data over a selected period helps teams measure storage uptime against SLA targets, with clear insights for reporting and compliance.

Setup and configuration

Block Storage 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 Block Storage from the Service/Resource Types drop-down and click Save.
Go to Cloud > Akamai Cloud, select the created Akamai monitor, and then click Block Storage.

Note

Block Storage 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 Block Storage are collected and updated in the Site24x7 portal every five minutes by default.

Supported metrics

Summary

The Summary tab provides a real-time overview of the availability status for each Block Storage volume. It includes information such as the count and duration of downtime as well as whether service-level agreements (SLAs) are being met.

By monitoring these summary metrics, you can quickly identify any detachment of volumes or service outages, helping to prevent data access failures in dependent applications and ensuring that your storage resources remain consistently attached and accessible.