Is Akamai Down?

No — Akamai is up

Akamai's status page: Operational · security notice open, nothing marked down
FlareWarden checks: Website reachable · 8 of 8 regions · 551 ms

Right now

The verdict is the worse of these two. How we decide

Akamai's status page

akamaistatus.com · read 2 minutes ago · checked every 3 minutes

Operational

Unrated investigating since Oct 30, 6:03 PM UTC

Customer Security Advisory: CVE-2026-98432

We are continuing to investigate this issue. Customers and partners can find more details on the Akamai Community: https://community.akamai.com/customers/s/feed/0D5a700001cIGoWCAW. We will provide an update as we progress.

Latest update 3 days ago

Akamai's components, as its status page reports them
Component	Status
Akamai Control Center	Operational
Akamai Customer Community	Operational
Akamai Partner Community	Operational
Akamai Techdocs	Operational
Case Ticketing	Operational
Chat	Operational
Diagnostic Tools	Operational
Email	Operational
Telephony	Operational
Cloudlets	Operational
Edge Delivery	Operational
Global Traffic Management	Operational

30 more, all operational · show all 42

All of Akamai's components
Component	Status
Customer Service, Documentation and Community
Akamai Control Center	Operational
Akamai Customer Community	Operational
Akamai Partner Community	Operational
Akamai Techdocs	Operational
Case Ticketing	Operational
Chat	Operational
Diagnostic Tools	Operational
Email	Operational
Telephony	Operational
Content Delivery
Cloudlets	Operational
Edge Delivery	Operational
Global Traffic Management	Operational
Image Management	Operational
NetStorage	Operational
Data Services
Log Delivery	Operational
mPulse	Operational
Reporting	Operational
SIEM Data feeds	Operational
TrafficPeak	Operational
Web Security Analytics	Operational
Configuration
Configuration Deployment	Operational
Content Purge	Operational
TLS Provisioning (Certificates, CPS)	Operational
Enterprise Security
Akamai MFA	Operational
Enterprise Application Access	Operational
Enterprise Application Access: API Service	Operational
Enterprise Application Access: Configuration	Operational
Enterprise Application Access: Reporting	Operational
ETP/SIA: Client	Operational
ETP/SIA: Configuration	Operational
ETP/SIA: Connectors	Operational
ETP/SIA: Name Servers	Operational
ETP/SIA: Reporting	Operational
ETP/SIA: Web Proxy	Operational
App & Network Security
Account Protector	Operational
Akamai Identity Cloud	Operational
Bot Management	Operational
Client-Side Protection & Compliance (formerly Page Integrity Manager)	Operational
DNS Posture Management	Operational
Edge DNS	Operational
Prolexic	Operational
Web Application Firewall	Operational

Open their status page

FlareWarden checks

control.akamai.com from 8 regions · when you open this page (at most every 30 minutes), otherwise every 6 hours

Reachable

Regions up: 8 of 8
Response: 551 ms
Checked: 2 hours ago

By region

Amsterdam reachable, 1885 ms
Chicago reachable, 201 ms
San Jose reachable, 742 ms
Singapore reachable, 227 ms
Stockholm reachable, 98 ms
Sydney reachable, 689 ms
Tokyo reachable, 241 ms
Toronto reachable, 332 ms

Timing by region

Connection timing for each region that loaded the page
Region	TCP	TLS	TTFB
Amsterdam	100 ms	202 ms	1885 ms
Chicago	1 ms	3 ms	201 ms
San Jose	45 ms	92 ms	742 ms
Singapore	3 ms	4 ms	226 ms
Stockholm	0 ms	2 ms	97 ms
Sydney	0 ms	2 ms	689 ms
Tokyo	0 ms	3 ms	241 ms
Toronto	13 ms	27 ms	332 ms

We check that control.akamai.com loads, not every feature behind it. Test it yourself

History

Incidents Akamai reported

Since Oct 22, 15 days · from akamaistatus.com

Incidents: 10
Major or critical: 0
Median to resolve: 1d 16h

Customer Security Advisory: CVE-2026-98432
Unrated · Oct 30
Ongoing
Performance Degradation for Customers in Mumbai and Chennai
Unrated · Oct 27
Ongoing
Enterprise Application Access (EAA) Connector Issues
minor · Oct 27
lasted 5h 53m
Edge Delivery issues between Indonesia and Singapore
minor · Oct 25
Ongoing
Customer Security Advisory: Brotli Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities
Unrated · Oct 23
lasted 11d 5h
Customer Security Advisory: Critical F5/NGINX Out-of-Band Vulnerabilities
Unrated · Oct 22
Ongoing
Edge Delivery Secure CDN platform at Risk of Capacity Issues
Unrated · Oct 21
lasted 1d 23h
Web Security Analytics, Reporting and Configuration Deployment Issues
minor · Oct 21
lasted 1d 8h

And 2 more in this window. Full history on their status page

Akamai website availability

Measured by FlareWarden · control.akamai.com

Last 7 days: 100%
Last 30 days: 100%
Last 90 days: 100%
Avg response, 30 days: 524ms

Last 30 days

65-day clean streak

Oct 7 Today

No downtime Partial Downtime Not measurable No data

Measured by FlareWarden's own checks of control.akamai.com from multiple regions every 6 hours. Akamai's status page sets the verdict above when it reports trouble, but never these figures. Percentages count only checks that returned an availability answer — 65 days measured so far. A dash means that window does not yet hold enough measured days to publish a figure.

What Akamai does

Akamai runs one of the largest content delivery and edge security networks, serving websites, APIs, video and software downloads from servers close to the user. Its platform also covers DNS, web application firewalling, DDoS mitigation through Prolexic, bot management and enterprise access. Banks, retailers, media companies and software vendors put it in front of their origins, so an Akamai fault surfaces as their own site failing.

What an outage looks like

Sites and APIs behind Akamai return errors or time out while origin servers stay healthy, and DNS lookups can fail for domains on Edge DNS. Akamai reports dozens of components separately, so the affected piece is often narrow: Content Purge or Configuration Deployment can fail while Edge Delivery is normal, meaning traffic flows but changes cannot be pushed.

What to do about it

Read www.akamaistatus.com and match the failing component to what you depend on rather than reading the headline. If Content Purge or Configuration Deployment is affected, stale content stays cached and an emergency fix will not take, so plan around the delay instead of retrying. Enterprise Application Access has its own page at eaa-status.akamai.com, which the main page does not cover.

Is it down for everyone, or just you?

If this page says Akamai is up but it is not loading for you, the problem is between you and them. Run a check against any URL from up to 17 cities across three regions to find out where it breaks.

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Akamai outage FAQ

Akamai says everything is operational but my purge is not working. Why?

Content Purge is its own component, separate from Edge Delivery. Traffic can be served normally while purge requests queue or fail, so the version visitors see stays stale even though nothing is technically down. Check the Content Purge and Configuration Deployment rows specifically, and expect an emergency content fix to be delayed rather than applied.

Does an Akamai outage affect my DNS?

Only if you use Akamai for DNS. Edge DNS is reported as a component separate from delivery, so name resolution can fail for domains on Akamai's nameservers while content delivery is healthy, or the reverse. If lookups are failing, that is a wider failure than a slow site, because every service on the domain is affected including mail.

Can I open a support case during an Akamai incident?

Not necessarily. Akamai reports Case Ticketing, Chat, Email and Telephony as components on the same page, so the channels you would use to report a problem can be affected by the same event. If those rows are degraded, rely on the status page and its updates rather than waiting on a ticket that may not have been created.

Is Enterprise Application Access covered by the main Akamai status page?

It has its own maintenance status page at eaa-status.akamai.com in addition to the Enterprise Application Access rows on the main page. If your users reach internal applications through Akamai rather than a VPN, check both, because a green main page is not evidence that the access layer your staff depend on is healthy.

How we measure this

We request Akamai's public endpoint every 6 hours from Fly.io regions across six continents — the most recent check ran from 8 of them. When you open this page and our last check is more than 30 minutes old, we check again on the spot; those checks update the verdict, never the availability figures.
A region counts as down only when it gets no usable HTTP response. A 403 or 429 means the origin answered and refused us, which we report as blocked, never as an outage.
A single failing region is treated as probe noise. Our checks only change their verdict when two consecutive cycles agree.
Response times average only the regions that actually served the page, so a timeout never inflates the number.
Where Akamai publishes an official status feed we read it too, and the verdict is the worse of what it reports and what our checks see: a major outage of Akamai itself is Down, trouble with one part of it is Degraded, problems at a few of a provider's many locations change nothing, and a security notice that marks nothing down is shown but changes nothing either. We check the feed every 3 minutes and read it again within minutes of any change to its incidents or components; a reading counts for 45 minutes after the last check that found nothing changed. The availability figures above are our measurement alone.

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