Why Hydrolix Partnered with Akamai to Solve Observability at Scale

Modern digital services generate an overwhelming volume of data, from logs and metrics to traces and security events, that teams rely on to maintain performance and reliability. Yet this data is growing faster than most organizations can store, search, or afford it.

While trying to address this widening gap, Hydrolix realized that solving observability at true internet volume required pairing its next-generation data architecture with a partner that could match that scale — and found that partner in Akamai.

Legacy observability solutions force teams into uncomfortable choices: sample data and lose clarity, overprovision infrastructure and overspend, or accept ballooning costs as the price of insight. Hydrolix set out to minimize these trade-offs by making large-scale log storage and analytics both cost-efficient and highly performant, and by teaming with Akamai, it could deliver those capabilities globally and at unprecedented scale.

Traditional observability platforms struggle because their architectures weren’t built for today’s data volumes. When logs reach petabyte scale, querying them in real time becomes painfully slow and increasingly complex. Incident response, performance tuning, and root-cause analysis all suffer as a result.

This technical friction is matched by rising economic pressure. Uneconomical ingestion-based pricing and unpredictable usage patterns lead to escalating and often uncontrollable costs. Teams begin rationing visibility exactly when they need more of it.

These constraints ripple outward into the business, degrading digital experiences, consuming engineering bandwidth, and hampering innovation. Observability becomes a bottleneck instead of a driver of operational excellence.

Hydrolix saw a unique opportunity in partnering with Akamai, a platform that processes some of the world’s highest traffic volumes across a globally distributed footprint. It’s the type of environment in which observability challenges become amplified, and where solving them creates outsized customer value.

Akamai’s massive scale, operational expertise, and enterprise trust complements Hydrolix’s next-generation data architecture. By combining strengths, the two companies can deliver observability solutions capable of meeting the demands of modern digital ecosystems.

This partnership is designed to accelerate innovation, reduce complexity for customers, and create immediate, tangible improvements in how organizations manage and act on their observability, operational, and security data.

At the center of the partnership is TrafficPeak, a joint solution powered by Hydrolix and delivered by Akamai that transforms how organizations capture and analyze massive volumes of telemetry. But TrafficPeak is more than a technology integration. It represents a rethinking of how observability should work at global scale.

TrafficPeak combines Hydrolix’s columnar storage engine and high-speed query capabilities with Akamai's distributed cloud infrastructure and edge footprint. This fusion enables customers to ingest terabytes of log data per day, rapid querying , and retain it longer without experiencing spiraling storage or compute costs.

Beyond performance, the collaboration delivers an operational model that simplifies complexity. Customers can replace a patchwork of log collectors, expensive indexing systems, and multi-tier storage strategies with a single platform designed to handle everything from security analytics to performance troubleshooting to compliance-supportable retention.

This consolidation reduces operational overhead and reduces the time engineering teams need to identify performance or security issues, so they can focus on building better digital experiences. For example, instead of stitching together logs from delivery, compute, and security tools during an outage, teams can instantly query in one place all related traffic and error data to pinpoint the root cause, whether it’s a misconfigured API, a latency spike at the edge, or a sudden surge in blocked requests.

The solution also integrates with Akamai’s platform services, allowing customer configurable access to detailed fields from CDN delivery logs, web application firewall and bot management events, and edge compute telemetry in a single analytics layer. 

By correlating request IDs, response codes, and security actions across these domains, teams can quickly separate real issues from background noise and pinpoint the exact source of performance or security problems.