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Linode is Akamai’s self-serve cloud (Akamai Connected Cloud). CostGraph reads its invoices and maps each line item into FOCUS. CostGraph reads Akamai Cloud as FOCUS 1.2 records at a grain of invoice line item (service x resource).

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Choose how the data reaches us

CostGraph pulls it

You supply a read-only token and we call the Linode API once a day. Nothing to run.

You push it

You send us FOCUS records over the API. Credentials never leave your infrastructure.

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Before you begin

  • To connect with Akamai Cloud, you need an account that can view billing.
  • To paste a token instead, go to Profile > API Tokens in Cloud Manager. The connect form links to the token page. Create a personal access token with Account: Read Only.

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Connect with Akamai Cloud (Linode)

  1. Open Settings > Integrations and pick Akamai Cloud (Linode).
  2. Name the connection and pick the tenant these charges belong to.
  3. Select Connect with Akamai Cloud.
  4. Sign in to Akamai Cloud if asked, review the access requested, and approve it.
CostGraph asks for read-only access to your account and invoices, and checks it can read your billing before saving the connection. If the access is revoked in Akamai Cloud or expires, the connection shows Reconnect, which reopens the connect dialog. Connecting again updates the same connection.

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Or paste a token instead

  1. Open Settings > Integrations and pick Akamai Cloud (Linode).
  2. Name the connection and pick the tenant these charges belong to.
  3. Select Or paste a token instead and enter the token. If the token form is already showing, enter it there.
  4. Select Connect.
CostGraph verifies the credentials with a short fetch before saving, so a wrong value or a missing permission fails while you are still on the form.
This covers the Linode / Akamai Cloud self-serve bill (the Linode API). Classic Akamai delivery (CDN, edge, security) is billed through a separate enterprise system and is not included here. Credentials are encrypted at rest and used only to read billing data.

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Push it yourself

Send the invoice line items to CostGraph as FOCUS instead. Push FOCUS data covers the connection id, the focus:write key, and the request shape.

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Run the exporter

Rather than build that request yourself, run our exporter. It reads Akamai Cloud on a schedule and pushes the records for you, wherever you want to run it: a container, a Kubernetes CronJob, or a binary on a machine you already have.
Your Akamai Cloud credential stays where you put it, and only the finished FOCUS records reach CostGraph. Run the exporter covers the three ways to run it and the variables it reads.

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What CostGraph does with it

Records land as raw billing rows, are normalised into line items, and roll up into daily cost. From there Akamai Cloud spend appears in Cost Overview and in anomaly detection alongside every other provider.