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title: "Akamai"
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The integration between Akamai and Universal DDI offers deep, edge-optimized visibility into enterprise web assets, APIs, and application delivery infrastructure. By leveraging Akamai’s extensive APIs and real-time telemetry from services such as Intelligent Edge Platform, Kona Site Defender, Enterprise Application Access, and DNS Edge, Universal DDI continuously collects performance, security, and access data across globally distributed environments.

> ⚠️ Discovery data updates for DNS and IPAM are not supported if your account is configured with only the Infoblox Threat Defense license entitlement.

This integration enables real-time discovery and contextual mapping of internet-facing assets—such as web applications, APIs, and edge nodes—to Akamai-managed configurations, including edge caching layers, WAF policies, secure application access controls, and DNS resolution paths. Administrators gain a unified, API-driven inventory enriched with Akamai’s behavioral analytics, request routing intelligence, and threat mitigation insights.

When combined with Universal DDI’s comprehensive IPAM and DNS visibility, this consolidated view enhances threat detection, streamlines asset correlation, and supports zero-trust strategies through application-layer segmentation. The result is a secure, high-performance digital experience built on Akamai’s globally scalable, security-first edge platform.

> ⚠️ **Read-only sync:** If you configure read-only sync, you cannot make any changes to Akamai DNS objects in the Infoblox Portal.
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> ⚠️ **Read/write sync**:  If you configure read/write sync, any changes made to the DNS objects in the Infoblox Portal will be synced to Akamai.

To create a network discovery configuration for Akamai, complete the following:

- Go to** Integration > Discovery > Cloud.**
- Click **Create > Akamai**.

> ℹ️ Before configuring discovery for Akamai, you must create credentials. For more information, see *[Creating Akamai Credentials](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/UniversalAssetInsights/pages/1689486530)*.

> ⚠️ When a provider discovery job is deleted in Universal DDI, the DNS zone that was synchronized through that job remains in its original DNS view (for example, *default*), but it is no longer linked to any cloud provider and it will no longer participate in cloud synchronization. If a new discovery job is later created using the same DNS view name, UDDI automatically generates a new provider-linked DNS view (for example, *default-1*) to preserve the integrity of provider associations. To ensure that DNS record updates continue to synchronize with the cloud provider, administrators must add or modify records within the zone that resides under the active provider-linked view (such as *default-1*), rather than in the old, unsynchronized view (*default*).

Configure the following settings in the wizard:

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