Beacon Getting Started

This guide walks through creating an Application within F5 Beacon to gain a single view into its health, status, and history. You will take an application with distributed components such as DNS, API Gateway, Data, Middleware, and other Services and then combine them into a single logical entity. You will then begin to ingest data into F5 Beacon and associate that data with the different application components.

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What You Will Do

• Model a Mobile Application within the F5 Beacon Portal and API.
• Ingest Data from Various Sources depending on your environment.
  • Beacon Monitor
  • BIG-IP
  • Telegraf
  • Additional sources to be added in future updates
• Associate the ingested data with components of the modeled Mobile Application.
• Manipulate the data sources to see how it impacts the Application
• Create a Dashboard to view the Application

What You Will Need

• A subscription to F5 Beacon - Click here to sign up for a 45-day free trial of F5 Beacon
• An F5 BIG-IP Instance with the following:
  • v13 TMOS or higher
  • Available outbound access from BIG-IP instance to F5 Beacon
  • F5 Telemetry Streaming: Installation
  • F5 AS3: Installation
• Postman HTTP client to send API calls: Installation

Contents:

• Lab Setup
  • Setup Postman
  • Setup your BIG-IP
• Create a Beacon Application
  • The Application
  • Creation Steps
• Create Token for Data Ingestion
  • GUI Token Creation
• Data Ingestion to F5 Beacon
• Beacon Monitor
  • Creating the Monitor
  • Associate the Monitor
• BIG-IP Ingestion and Association
  • Configure TS
  • Configure Mobile App - Payment Service on BIG-IP
  • Map the BIG-IP Service to our Beacon App
• Telegraf Metric Ingestion
  • Configure NGINX
  • Install Telegraf
  • Configure Telegraf
  • Viewing the Data
• Creating Dashboards in F5 Beacon