Was Akamai down in August 2026?
Not fully — Akamai stayed up in August 2026, but reported 12 periods of degraded service.
We check Akamai's official status page about once an hour and record what it reports. This page covers 130 checks across 11 days in August 2026.
August 2026 at a glance
100%Uptime counts every check where Akamai was not reporting an outage. It was fully healthy on 32.3% of checks, and reporting degraded service on the other 88.
- Checks recorded
- 130
- All clear
- 42
- Degraded
- 88
- Outage
- 0
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Akamai incidents in August 2026
- Degraded service
Lasted ~19 minutes across 2 consecutive checks.
- Degraded service
Lasted ~9 hours across 10 consecutive checks.
- Degraded service
Lasted ~1 hour across 2 consecutive checks.
- Degraded service
Lasted ~20 hours across 21 consecutive checks.
- Degraded service
Lasted under 1 hour across 1 consecutive check.
- Degraded service
Lasted ~16 hours across 17 consecutive checks.
- Degraded service
Lasted ~1 hour across 2 consecutive checks.
- Degraded service
Lasted ~2 hours across 3 consecutive checks.
- Degraded service
Lasted ~15 hours across 16 consecutive checks.
- Degraded service
Lasted ~1 hour across 2 consecutive checks.
- Degraded service
Lasted ~10 hours across 11 consecutive checks.
- Degraded service
Lasted under 1 hour across 1 consecutive check.
How we measure this
About once an hour we read Akamai's official status feed and record exactly what it says — we don't infer status from our own connection to them. When the feed can't be read, we record nothing rather than guess, so a gap in the chart above means “not monitored”, never “down”.
Uptime is the share of the 130 recorded checks where Akamai was not reporting an outage — a provider flagging degraded service is still up. Providers often sit at “degraded” for days over one small component, so counting that as downtime would say a service was offline all month when its own page said nothing of the kind. Degradation is reported separately, in the figures above and the timeline below.
This is a sample, not continuous monitoring: an incident that started and finished between two checks won't appear here, and a run can be missed. Treat these figures as what Akamai was reporting at the moments we looked — the official page is the authority. Official Akamai status page →