Akamai Cloud Longview
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Plans and prices
From Akamai Cloud Longview's own pricing page, checked 14 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Longview Free | Free | up to 10 clients · 5-minute data resolution · 12 hours of history · FREE |
| Longview Pro 3 pack | $20 a month | 3 clients · 1-minute resolution · complete history · $20/month ($0.03/hour) |
| Longview Pro 10 pack | $40 a month | 10 clients · 1-minute resolution · complete history · $40/month ($0.06/hour) |
| Longview Pro 40 pack | $100 a month | 40 clients · 1-minute resolution · complete history · $100/month ($0.15/hour) |
| Longview Pro 100 pack | $200 a month | 100 clients · 1-minute resolution · complete history · $200/month ($0.30/hour) |
| Longview Pro | — | 60-second data resolution · Unlimited data retention · Added cost; price not stated on the opened page |
The facts
Each one read from Akamai Cloud Longview's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Agent portability
- The agent can run on Linux systems hosted outside Akamai Cloud as well as on Akamai infrastructure.checked 14 Oct 2026
- API
- The Linode API exposes endpoints for managing Longview clients and subscriptions.checked 14 Oct 2026
- API response data
- The Longview types endpoint returns plan identifiers, labels, hourly and monthly prices, regional prices and transfer fields.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Availability limit
- Longview is supported in core compute regions but not in distributed compute regions.checked 14 Oct 2026
- CLI
- Akamai documents the Linode CLI as a command-line wrapper around the Linode API.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Current status report
- IsDown reported Longview working normally and recorded four incidents since monitoring began in April 2020.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Dashboard
- Users view Longview statistics through the Cloud Manager web interface.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Disk limit
- Longview does not gather data on swap disks.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Disk metrics
- Disk views include I/O, space usage and inode information over time.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Graphs
- Graphs support selectable time ranges and hoverable data points for individual measurements.checked 14 Oct 2026
- History limit
- Graphs show only data captured after the Longview Agent was installed.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Independent pricing reference
- Qiita lists Free as 10 clients at no cost and Pro packs at $20, $40, $100 and $200 monthly.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Installation
- Cloud Manager supplies a curl-based installer that creates the client and installs the agent on a Linux server.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Optional metric tabs are available for Apache, NGINX, and MySQL when the software and Longview Agent are configured.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Legal name
- Akamai's SEC filing identifies the company as Akamai Technologies, Inc.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Limit: feature breadth
- A G2 reviewer asks for more cloud features to be exposed through the platform.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Limit: interface
- A G2 reviewer says the user interface is not very user-friendly despite strong infrastructure capabilities.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Limit: outage
- A June 15–16, 2026 incident caused some servers to stop reaching the Longview endpoint and left users seeing missing or waiting-for-data graphs for several hours.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Limit: pricing granularity
- A Linode community post complains that moving beyond 10 free clients requires a large paid pack rather than smaller incremental purchases.checked 14 Oct 2026
The company
- Company size
- LinkedIn lists Akamai Technologies as a public company with 5,001–10,000 employees and headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Founded
- Akamai's SEC filing says it was incorporated in Delaware in 1998.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Headquarters
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, United Stateschecked 28 Sep 2026
- Linode company facts
- Crunchbase describes Linode, LLC as founded in 2003, headquartered in Philadelphia and acquired by Akamai.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Linode ownership
- Akamai completed its acquisition of Linode on March 21, 2022 for approximately $900 million.checked 14 Oct 2026
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