Monitoring is frequently at the top of the priority list for Akamai's customers. The best product to get this information currently is the Cloud Monitor. Akamai has partnered with Sumologic as a system designed to analyze and display metrics and reports from Akamai's traffic. Setting this up is usually something done by Professional Services, but it is relatively easy to set it up yourself, and that's what I'm going to cover here. When you're done, you will have a working integration between cloud monitor and Sumologic, and you can manage the information in Sumologic like any other data set.
This tutorial assumes you already have Cloud Monitor set up on your Akamai account.
- Set up a Sumologic trial account.
If you don't already have a Sumologic account, you can set up a trial account with them for testing. The trial account offered by Sumologic is free, and doesn't requi