Akamai status
Akamai uptime & performance at a glance
- Current status
- Operational
- Uptime · 24h
- 100%
- Uptime · 7 days
- 100%
- Uptime · since Aug 5, 2026
- 100%
- Response time
- 16 ms
- Tracked incidents
- 0
- SSL certificate
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Is Akamai down everywhere, or just for you?
Our probes reached Akamai successfully from every monitoring region in the last check round.
| Monitoring region | Last check | Success rate (24h) | Avg response |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asia Pacific | Reachable | 100% | 358 ms |
| Europe | Reachable | 100% | 320 ms |
| North America (East) | Reachable | 100% | 212 ms |
| North America (West) | Reachable | 100% | 244 ms |
Based on 212 automated checks in the last 24 hours. A region only appears here once we have real measurements from it.
What to check when Akamai misbehaves
Akamai is a hosting and CDN provider in our hosting & cdn catalog. Services like this rarely fail as one block — these pieces can break on their own, so identifying which one is affected usually explains what you are seeing.
- Edge networkContent delivery from nearby POPs
- OriginRequests reaching the backend
- DNSName resolution
- TLS certificatesCertificate issuance and renewal
- DashboardControl panel access
Our automated checks measure reachability and response time of Akamai's public endpoint. Component level detail above reflects what users of this kind of service typically report, not a vendor status feed.
Incident timeline
No incidents reported. Everything is green.
Akamai appears stable across all monitored regions. Community reports in the last hour are within normal noise levels.
Monitoring live signals…
No disruptions detected
No regional issues yet
About Akamai
Akamai provides global content delivery network services, edge computing, and web security solutions that keep websites and applications fast and secure. Organizations deploy Akamai to offload traffic, mitigate DDoS attacks, and deliver media assets via its distributed network of edge servers. When the service experiences issues, users might encounter DNS resolution failures, high latency in asset delivery, or errors in the Akamai Control Center. Companies relying on these edge services visit Rimetry to see if the problem is localized or widespread. Rimetry maintains a persistent watch over these infrastructure components to document any significant drops in global performance.
Akamai (akamai.com) is a hosting & cdn service monitored continuously by rimetry from multiple global regions. We probe its public endpoints every 60 seconds to detect outages, latency spikes, and regional degradations the moment they happen.
Right now Akamai is reporting as operational across our probes, with an average response time of 16 ms and 100.00% uptime over the last 24 hours. Most users connecting to akamai.com are seeing it work normally.
Common causes of disruption for services like Akamai include backend API failures, region-specific routing problems at the CDN or ISP layer, expired TLS certificates, DNS misconfigurations, and capacity spikes during major events. rimetry combines automated probes, vendor status feeds, and verified community reports to give you a single high-confidence answer instead of guessing.
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What is Akamai?
Global CDN, security and edge platform.
Akamai is part of our Hosting & CDN category. You can also review current trending outages across the internet.
Common issues
- · 5xx errors served from the edge
- · Slow asset delivery in specific regions
- · DNS resolution failures
- · Certificate warnings
Similar patterns often surface across other hosting & cdn providers — cross-check against the global outage map.
Troubleshooting
- · Compare a cached asset with an uncached one to isolate edge vs origin
- · Check DNS resolution from more than one resolver
- · Look at HTTP status codes: 5xx from the edge points at the provider
- · Purge cache only after confirming the origin is healthy
- · Test from another network — CDN issues are frequently regional
- · Check Akamai's official social channels
Not sure whether it's you or the service? Run a live speed test, check what your IP looks like from the edge, or watch for regional trouble on the worldwide outage map. For the wider picture, browse recent incidents or filter down to hosting & cdn.
FAQ
- Is Akamai down for everyone?
Use the live status above — green means it's likely just you. - How often is the status updated?
Every minute from four global regions. - Where can I see past Akamai incidents?
Every event we've recorded lives in the live incident feed, and older ones are grouped in the monthly incident archive. - What else is broken right now?
See the trending outages page or narrow it to hosting & cdn.