Introducing Akamai Cloud Pulse: Observability for Your Cloud Infrastructure – Now in Open Beta

Special thanks to Abhay Kapoor, Senior Manager of Product Management at Akamai, for his expertise and guidance in shaping this blog and ensuring its technical accuracy.

We are excited to announce that Akamai Cloud Pulse is now entering Open Beta for all Akamai Managed Database customers. Following successful closed beta testing, we are ready to provide you with real-time insights into your database performance and resource utilization.

In today’s application-driven world, cloud infrastructure is the backbone of every digital experience. Cloud architectures encompass multiple services, regions, and resource types like virtual machines, databases, Kubernetes clusters, storage, and networking. Infrastructure downtime can cost enterprises thousands of dollars per minute while inefficient resource usage leads to unnecessary cloud spending. Teams spend countless hours solving issues across compute, storage, and networking that could have been prevented with early detection. Performance bottlenecks in any layer, whether it’s CPU constraints, storage I/O limits, or network latency, directly impact application performance, leading to poor user experiences and potential customer churn. As businesses scale, understanding infrastructure performance patterns becomes critical for capacity planning and cost optimization. You need real-time visibility into resource utilization across all services, predictive alerting for potential issues before they impact customers, and the ability to correlate performance across compute, storage, networking, database, and Kubernetes layers.

Akamai Cloud Pulse is our comprehensive observability platform designed to deliver real-time visibility and intelligent monitoring across your entire Akamai Cloud environment. Cloud Pulse provides centralized metrics, proactive alerting, and actionable insights that keep your applications running smoothly. It serves as your single source of truth for infrastructure health, combining real-time metrics collection with analytics capabilities. Monitor critical performance indicators, set intelligent alerts, analyze historical trends, and troubleshoot issues faster, all from one platform.

Starting with Database, Expanding to Everything

We are launching Cloud Pulse in open beta with Akamai Managed Database monitoring, providing visibility into database performance, query analytics, connection metrics, and resource utilization. Track CPU usage, memory consumption, disk I/O, network activity, and database-specific metrics like connection counts, query performance, and storage utilization

Akamai Cloud Pulse delivers real-time insights into key performance indicators such as CPU, memory, storage utilization, and network I/O across your Database instances. This visibility helps you ensure efficient resource usage and detect issues before they impact application performance.

Get instant visibility with pre-built dashboards tailored for Database resource metrics. These dashboards provide a streamlined, easy-to-navigate overview of your. You have these dashboards available in centralized as well as contextual environments.

Stay ahead of potential issues with system alerts that provide notifications if the key metrics go beyond a system-defined threshold. These alerts require no configuration, and all users having access to the resources are notified on time.