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Outage in Akamai

Bot Manager Elevated False Positives Issues

Resolved Minor
April 30, 2026 - Started about 9 hours ago - Lasted about 1 hour
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Summary AI Generated

Akamai's Bot Manager experienced elevated false positives that incorrectly blocked legitimate user traffic for 1.3 hours on April 30, 2026. The issue affected the Bot Management service, preventing valid end users from accessing websites and applications protected by the service. Akamai implemented a fix at 19:00 UTC and confirmed full service restoration by 20:00 UTC the same day.

We are investigating an emerging issue with Bot Manager related to elevated false positives leading to denied legitimate traffic for end users. We are actively investigating the issue and will provide another update within the next 60 minutes. We will soon be posting more details for customers and partners with a valid Control Center login at https://community.akamai.com/customers/s/group/0F90f000000DFgx/service-incident-notifications. If you have questions or are experiencing an impact due to this issue, please use the Support Center on Akamai Community (https://community.akamai.com/customers/s/support), or Akamai Control Center, to contact Akamai Technical Support. Contact information is available at https://www.akamai.com/us/en/support/.
Components affected
Akamai Bot Management

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RESOLVED about 8 hours ago - at 04/30/2026 08:00PM

We can confirm that the issue was mitigated at 19:00 UTC on April 30, 2026, and the service has resumed normal operation. Customers and partners can view additional details about the incident by logging in to: https://community.akamai.com/customers/s/feed/0D5a70000168PJsCAM, or reaching out to Akamai Support. We apologize for the impact and thank you for your patience and continued support. We are committed to making continuous improvements to make our systems better and prevent a recurrence of this issue.

MONITORING about 9 hours ago - at 04/30/2026 07:02PM

We have implemented a fix for Bot Manager which addresses the issue we believe may have caused the elevated false positives as of 19:00 UTC on April 30, 2026; based on current observations, the service is resuming normal operations. Customers and partners can find more details on the Akamai Community: https://community.akamai.com/customers/s/feed/0D5a70000168PJsCAM. We will continue to monitor to ensure that the impact has been fully mitigated.

INVESTIGATING about 9 hours ago - at 04/30/2026 06:41PM

We are investigating an emerging issue with Bot Manager related to elevated false positives leading to denied legitimate traffic for end users. We are actively investigating the issue and will provide another update within the next 60 minutes. We will soon be posting more details for customers and partners with a valid Control Center login at https://community.akamai.com/customers/s/group/0F90f000000DFgx/service-incident-notifications. If you have questions or are experiencing an impact due to this issue, please use the Support Center on Akamai Community (https://community.akamai.com/customers/s/support), or Akamai Control Center, to contact Akamai Technical Support. Contact information is available at https://www.akamai.com/us/en/support/.

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