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Akamai OPEN APIs Software Development Life Cycle

Whether you're deeply integrating configuration into your system or automating purge requests based on site changes, there's a process to follow before the code is ready to be put into production. This post covers the ideal process for getting your API integration into a stable code setup.

Getting Started

The first thing you'll likely want to do is to learn how to get setup using the APIs. To get started, you can use the sample code in the api-kickstart. There are code examples there for Python and PHP. If you have already created API credentials in Luna, you can jump right in by reading the README files for each of the languages in the examples directory of your repository.

Follow the Getting Started tutorial to get your credentials set up and run some sample code.

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Getting Started with the OPEN CCU API

Members of the Developer Relations team interact with a lot of customers when on the road presenting API bootcamps. (Bootcamps are free for customers who want them! Ask your account rep to set one up.) We listen carefully to the challenges, goals and use cases of the developers we encounter, and found that one of the most common workflows customers ask about is purge. We've definitely got an API for that! In fact, purge is such a hot topic that we've moved pretty quickly through several API solutions, and today there are three choices available to you on the Developer Portal.

Earlier this year, the PurgeECCU and REST CCU resources were superseded by the OPEN CCU API. There are still a few use cases that require the ECCU interface, but the CCU interface should work for just about everyone who's getting started with the purge API. In this post, I'll point you to the mos

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Connecting your Cloud Monitor to Sumologic

Monitoring is frequently at the top of the priority list for Akamai's customers. The best product to get this information currently is the Cloud Monitor. Akamai has partnered with Sumologic as a system designed to analyze and display metrics and reports from Akamai's traffic. Setting this up is usually something done by Professional Services, but it is relatively easy to set it up yourself, and that's what I'm going to cover here. When you're done, you will have a working integration between cloud monitor and Sumologic, and you can manage the information in Sumologic like any other data set.

This tutorial assumes you already have Cloud Monitor set up on your Akamai account.

1. Set up a Sumologic trial account.

If you don't already have a Sumologic account, you can set up a trial account with them for testing. The trial account offered by Sumologic is free, and doesn't requi