F5 BIG-IP Telemetry Streaming¶
Welcome to the F5 BIG-IP Telemetry Streaming User Guide. To provide feedback on this documentation, you can file a GitHub Issue, or email us at solutionsfeedback@f5.com.
Important
This the documentation for the latest version of Telemetry Streaming, if you want to see the documentation for a long term support (LTS) version, use the version selector on the top left (for details, see Support information on GitHub).
Introduction¶
F5 BIG-IP Telemetry Streaming (BIG-IP TS) enables you to declaratively aggregate, normalize, and forward statistics and events from the BIG-IP to a consumer application. BIG-IP Telemetry Streaming is an iControl LX Extension delivered as a TMOS-independent RPM file, and uses a declarative model, meaning you provide a JSON declaration rather than a set of imperative commands. To use BIG-IP TS, you POST a single JSON declaration to BIG-IP TS’s declarative REST API endpoint.
See our BIG-IP Telemetry Streaming overview video:
This guide contains information on downloading, installing, and using the BIG-IP Telemetry Streaming Extension. Use the navigation panes, and/or the Next and Previous buttons to explore the documentation.
You can click the following links to go directly to a specific Push Consumers or Pull Consumers:
| Push Consumers | Supports System Poller | Supports Event Listener |
|---|---|---|
| Splunk | yes | yes |
| Microsoft Azure Log Analytics | yes | yes |
| Microsoft Azure Application Insights | yes (metrics only) | no |
| AWS CloudWatch | yes (metrics only) | no |
| AWS S3 | yes | yes |
| Graphite | yes | yes |
| Kafka | yes | yes |
| ElasticSearch | yes | yes |
| Sumo Logic | yes | yes |
| StatsD | yes (metrics only) | no |
| Generic HTTP | yes | yes |
| Fluentd | yes | yes |
| Google Cloud Operations Suite’s Cloud Monitoring | yes (metrics only) | no |
| Google Cloud Logging | yes | yes |
| DataDog | yes | yes |
| OpenTelemetry Exporter | yes (metrics only) | partial (converts logs to metrics) |
| Pull Consumers | Supports System Poller | Supports Event Listener |
|---|---|---|
| Default Pull Consumer | yes | no |
| Prometheus Pull Consumer | yes (metrics only) | no |