Is Akamai down right now?

No. Our checks are finding no problems with Akamai right now. That verdict is live, and the banner at the top of this page carries it too. We re-check Akamai continuously using its official status feed, direct network probes and reports from visitors, stopping at the first check that gives a clear answer, and the page updates itself as soon as anything changes. A green verdict does not rule out a fault affecting only some users or regions.

The problems visitors report most often on this page are website / app down, DNS / site unreachable, high latency, slow or laggy, constant buffering, video won't play, API errors and no response / timing out. Those are the options the report button offers for Akamai, chosen for how this service actually fails rather than a generic list, and the "user reports" chart above breaks down which ones people are picking right now.

Our checks run from one place on the internet, so a fault limited to your region or network can be real while our probes succeed. With Akamai specifically, Akamai delivers from tens of thousands of edge servers and you are routed to one near you, so an unhealthy region affects your city and nobody else's. Their edge also reports faults at the customer's origin as its own error page, complete with a reference code. That is why this page reports what it observed rather than declaring the service healthy, and why reports from other visitors count toward the verdict.

For Akamai, quote the reference number on the Akamai error page, which encodes which edge server handled the request and why it failed, then load the same site over mobile data. A different result from a different network confirms the edge rather than the site. A problem that follows you across networks and devices is very unlikely to be yours.

If this page shows evidence of problems, the fault is most likely on Akamai's side. Specifically: hold off on a full cache purge. Purging sends every request to an origin that is already under strain, which converts an edge problem into an origin outage, and Akamai's purge itself takes time to propagate across the network. Reporting it here helps other people see they are not alone.

Continuously, around the clock. Akamai publishes a machine-readable status feed, so our first check reads it directly and reports what Akamai itself says. If that feed is unreachable we fall back to a direct HTTP probe, then an ICMP ping, then reports from visitors. The verification tier box on this page names whichever check produced the verdict you are reading, so you can see how direct the evidence is.

Yes, at status.akamai.com, and it is linked further up this page. That is Akamai's own account of their service and it is the place to look for their estimate of a fix. We read it where we can, but we publish our own observations beside it rather than only repeating theirs, because an operator's status page can lag a problem their users are already hitting.

No. status.buzz is an independent monitoring site operated by LuzLab LLC, with no connection to Akamai or akamai.com. It reads publicly available endpoints and status feeds, and publishes what it observed. For account or billing problems you need Akamai's own support, not us.