specification: API Commons Lifecycle
specificationVersion: '0.1'
provider: Akita Software
providerId: akita-software
generated: '2026-08-30'
method: searched
source: >-
  https://blog.postman.com/postman-acquires-akita-for-automated-api-observability/,
  https://learning.postman.com/docs/insights/overview/,
  https://github.com/postmanlabs/observability-cli, and live DNS/HTTP probes
  performed 2026-08-30
description: >-
  Akita Software is an ACQUIRED and WOUND-DOWN provider. Postman announced the
  acquisition on 2023-07-19. Akita's independent API surface no longer exists:
  the akita.software domain has expired, the CLI repository is archived, and the
  marketing site sits behind a Cloudflare block. The technology continues as
  Postman Insights, which is in beta and gated to Postman's Enterprise plan.
status: acquired
lifecycle_stage: sunset
acquisition:
  acquirer: Postman
  announced: '2023-07-19'
  announcement: https://blog.postman.com/postman-acquires-akita-for-automated-api-observability/
  successor_product: Postman Insights
  successor_url: https://www.postman.com/product/postman-insights/
  note: >-
    apis.yml previously stated the acquisition was in November 2023. The Postman
    announcement post is dated 2023-07-19; that date is used here and the
    description has been corrected. The product was first rebadged as the "Live
    Collections Agent", then "Live Insights", and now redirects to "Postman
    Insights".
successor_status:
  name: Postman Insights
  stage: beta
  docs: https://learning.postman.com/docs/insights/overview/
  plan_requirement: Postman Enterprise plan
  supported_platforms:
    - Kubernetes (DaemonSet and sidecar)
    - Amazon ECS (EC2 and Fargate)
    - Amazon EC2
    - AWS Elastic Beanstalk
sunset_events:
  - event: Akita CLI repository archived
    date: '2024-06-05'
    evidence: https://github.com/postmanlabs/observability-cli
    detail: >-
      akitasoftware/akita-cli transferred to postmanlabs/observability-cli and
      set read-only. Last tag v0.30.7 (2024-05-21).
  - event: akita.software domain expired
    date: null
    evidence: https://akita.software/
    detail: >-
      DNS for docs.akita.software, blog.akita.software, api.akita.software,
      app.akita.software and releases.akita.software returns NXDOMAIN. The
      apex akita.software now 200s to expireddomains.com. Documentation, blog,
      API host and CLI release host are all gone. Date of expiry not published.
  - event: www.akitasoftware.com placed behind a Cloudflare block
    date: null
    evidence: https://www.akitasoftware.com/
    detail: >-
      Every path returns HTTP 403 with a Cloudflare "Sorry, you have been
      blocked" interstitial to crawlers and to a browser User-Agent alike. The
      site's actual content could not be read on 2026-08-30.
versioning:
  scheme: semver
  surface: >-
    Applies to the successor agent binary, not to a versioned HTTP API. The
    observability API itself is path-versioned (/v1/... and /v2/agent/...),
    observed in the agent's own REST client; no version policy is published.
  policy_published: false
deprecation:
  policy_published: false
  sunset_header: false
  deprecation_header: false
  note: >-
    No RFC 8594 Sunset/Deprecation header policy, no deprecation notice period
    and no end-of-life schedule were published for either the Akita API or the
    Postman Insights observability API. The Akita product was retired by
    acquisition and domain expiry rather than by an announced deprecation.
    Recorded as an explicit ABSENCE — this is the deprecation posture of a
    wound-down provider, not an unchecked field.
status_page:
  url: https://status.postman.com/
  status: 200
  owner: Postman
  covers_provider: false
  note: >-
    Akita ran no status page that survives. status.postman.com is Postman's
    platform status page and is the operational signal for the successor
    product; it is Postman's, not Akita's, so no StatusPage pointer is emitted
    on this profile.
sla:
  published: false
  note: No SLA published for Akita, and none published for the Insights beta.
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com