New features:

• Custom HTTPS endpoint support. DataStream 2 now allows you to choose a custom HTTPS endpoint as a destination to send your Akamai logs and receive data. See the DataStream 2 User Guide for details on how to configure custom HTTPS endpoints as connectors for your stream.

• Geo data fields. DataStream 2 now features new data fields that provide geographical information about the requests. You can now collect and stream data on the city and country ISO code where the requests originate from in the log files.

Enhancement:

• Easier property selection. When configuring your stream in the DataStream 2 application, you can see property names next to product names and hostnames in separate columns. This helps you comfortably select properties that belong to the same product.

Image and Video Manager April/May 2021 updates:

New features:

• Animated GIF to mp4 conversion (Experimental): You are now able to convert animated GIFs to MP4 videos for additional byte savings.

• Image and Video Manager integration with Simplified Product onboarding (SPO): You can now use our SPO assistant to enable Image and Video Manager on a new property, which will help you to get going with IVM quickly and easily. to learn more about SPO, see their June 3, 2020 release note.

Dashboard updates:

On the IVM Video Dashboard, you are now able to view the top video URLs based on number of seconds delivered. 

New features:

• Additional HTTP methods for liveness tests. Additional methods for HTTP(S) liveness tests including DELETE, OPTIONS, PATCH, POST, PUT, and TRACE.
• Domain history API. Developer API to GET a domain’s history of changes.
• Backup CNAMEs for IP version selector properties. IP version selector properties can contain matching backup CNAMEs.
• TTL for China CDN global redirection capabilities defaults to 3600s. The China CDN’s global redirection capability defaults to 3600s to minimize lookup transactions.
• Property limit display. The application UI conveniently displays a domain’s current property limit.
• Property TTL defaults handling. The application UI better manages TTL values.
• Liveness test default timeout is 10s. Default liveness test default timeout is 10s.
• Standard info icons. Standardize information icons throughout the application user interface.
• Reporting improvements.
  • GTM - Property Report: 90 days of history, reduced latency for the traffic data, liveness graphs have increased granularity with a percent availability for the reporting period and visual alignment for graphs vertically.
  • GTM - Error Report: Predefined dates updated to reflect API availability.
• Prometheus.io exporter. Exporter library to publish metrics to Prometheus.io.
• Grafana plug-in. Plug-in to enable a data source for Grafana.

New features:

• Support for Quick Retry with OD. Quick retry detects slow forward throughput while fetching a streaming media object and attempts a different forward connection path to try to avoid congestion. This behavior is added automatically to any new OD property and is available for addition to an existing one. For complete details on how to configure Quick Retry, see the OD user documentation.

New features:

• Support for Quick Retry with DD. Quick retry detects slow forward throughput while fetching an object for download and attempts a different forward connection path to try to avoid congestion. This behavior is added automatically to any new DD property and is available for addition to an existing one. For complete details on how to configure Quick Retry, see the DD user documentation.

New features:

• Cross-account permissions. Cross-account permissions allow a parent zone owner and account to grant permission for another account to create subzones.
• View Secondary Zones. View secondary zone files from the application UI.
• Zone transfer status improvements. Status message improvements.
• Large zone list performance improvements. Faster zone load time for large zone lists.
• Standard info icons. Standardize information icons throughout the application UI.
• Apex zone sorting. Simplify the task to filter apex zones from the zone list.
• Registrar coordinator. Standard library to synchronize registrar primary zones with Edge DNS secondary zones.
• Prometheus.io exporter. Exporter library to publish metrics to Prometheus.io.
• Grafana plug-in. Plug-in to enable a data source for Grafana.
• Stackexchange DNS Control provider. Provider for Stackexchange DNSControl.
• Kubernetes DNS provider. Provider for Kubernetes External DNS.
• cert-manager provider. Provider for X.509 certificate management for Kubernetes.
• CLI master file support. Create, read, and update zone files using Akamai CLI DNS.

Feature deprecations:

• Fast DNS Record Management API v1. Akamai will stop supporting the Fast DNS Record Management API v1 after June 30, 2022.

Release Notes: Cloud Interconnects for Google Cloud (GCP) - General Availability

General Availability release of the Cloud Interconnects for Google Cloud (GCP) feature. This feature maximizes traffic flow through Private Network Interconnects (PNIs) established with Google to reduce egress costs at the origin.

Changes since Limited Availability Release:

• Cloud Interconnects Traffic Report fixed to properly reflect PNI traffic in the US

New feature: During setup for LDS configurations using FTP delivery, the application will now initiate a test connection with the FTP server to ensure logs will be delivered successfully.

Enterprise Threat Protector (ETP) Client 3.4.0 is now available

A new version of the ETP desktop client is now available. This release contains the following updates:

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) Support. ETP Client 3.4.0 can now protect a user’s personal computer or laptop. A new installation process allows users to activate ETP Client on their personal machines without using the enterprise-wide entitlement code. The following applies in this update:

• After the client is installed on the user’s machine, the user is prompted to activate the client with a one-time activation code (OTAC). If the user does not have this code, the client lets users request it. The activation code is emailed to the authorized user’s corporate email address.
• To email activation codes, administrators must configure authorized corporate domains in Enterprise Center. Administrators should not provide email domains that are associated with unauthorized users.
• From Enterprise Center, administrators can send users an email invitation that contains the activation code. Administrators can also choose to generate a CSV file with activation codes and manually distribute these codes to users. After the activation codes are generated, they are valid for one week (7 days).
• When generating an OTAC in Enterprise Center, administrators should specify the user’s email address in the User’s List. This allows administrators to easily associate events with the users who trigger them. This email address appears in the new Device Owner dimension that’s available in ETP event and activity reports.
• End users are not prompted for an entitlement code during the installation of the client. The entitlement code is used by administrators only. After installing ETP Client with the user interface, administrators enter the entitlement code in the ETP Client interface. Installations that are performed with the command line can still use the entitlement code.

ETP Client Access Logs. New log files provide detailed information on all ETP Client traffic. These logs are formatted to make them easier for analysis. These CSV files are available in the client Log directory:

• etp_Proxy_Access.csv: Contains logs of web traffic forwarded from ETP Client to ETP Proxy. Log data includes the time that activity occurred, ID associated with the request, requested domain, and more.
• etp_Client_Access.csv: Contains logs of DNS traffic forwarded from ETP Client to ETP DNS resolvers. Log data includes the time that activity occurred, ID associated with the request, whether DNS over TLS (DoT) or DNS over UDP was used, and more.

When a log file reaches 40 MB, an index value is appended to the filename and a new log file is created with the original filename. These logs can be used by your organization to review requests and troubleshoot technical issues. Administrative privileges are required to view these logs.

Note: These logs contain all traffic, including logs for private browsing. Make sure these logs are handled securely to maintain the user’s privacy.

ETP Client is enabled for logging by default. However, administrators can disable logging in Enterprise Center.

Support for Apple M1 chip. ETP Client now supports Mac computers with the Apple M1 chip.

New Features

• CSV import/export feature is supported for Shared Policies. Initially, it was supported only for the Legacy Policies.  

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue in the GUI to ensure a single property deletion shows a pending status.