Connect Your Akamai Website to Agent & LLM Analytics

Overview

This integration uses Akamai DataStream 2 to send analytics events to Dark Visitors from your Akamai CDN. Please contact us if you need help getting set up.

Step 1: Create a DataStream

• Sign in to Akamai Control Center
• Navigate to DataStream in the sidebar
• Click Create a stream
• Select your property and click Next

Step 2: Configure Your Data Set

Select the following fields for your data set:

• Log information
  • Request time
• Message exchange data
  • Request host
  • Request method
  • Request path
  • User-Agent
  • Client IP
• Request header data
  • Referer

Step 3: Configure the Destination

• From the Destination dropdown, select Custom HTTPS
• For the Display Name, choose something like Dark Visitors Analytics
• For Authentication, select BASIC
• Enter this Endpoint URL:

https://api.darkvisitors.com/logs/akamai

• Navigate to the Dark Visitors Projects page and open your project
• Copy your access token from the Settings page
• For Username, enter something like your company name (this field is not important)
• For Password, paste your access token
• Check Send compressed data
• Select JSON as the log format
• Choose 30 seconds as the push frequency
• Click Save stream

Step 4: Activate the Stream

• After creating the stream, click Proceed to Property Manager and select your property
• Click Edit a new version
• Navigate to Property Configuration Settings
• From the + Behavior dropdown, select Standard property behavior
• Search for DataStream and click Insert Behavior
• In the DataStream section, select DataStream 2 from the Stream Version dropdown
• Toggle Enable to On
• Select your stream in the Stream Name dropdown
• Set the sample rate to 100

Step 5: Configure Log Delivery

• In Property Manager, select Log Delivery from the sidebar
• Enable:
  • Log Host Header
  • Log Referer Header
  • Log User-Agent Header
• Save the configuration and activate the new version

Step 6: Test Your Integration

• Navigate to the Projects page
• Select your project
• Click Settings
• Click Send a Test Visit
• Click Realtime

If your website is correctly connected, you should see visits from the Dark Visitor agent in the realtime timeline within a few minutes.