F5 Telemetry Streaming

Welcome to the F5 Telemetry Streaming User Guide. To provide feedback on this documentation, you can file a GitHub Issue, or email us at solutionsfeedback@f5.com.

Introduction

Telemetry Streaming (TS) is an iControl LX Extension delivered as a TMOS-independent RPM file. Installing the TS Extension on BIG-IP enables you to declaratively aggregate, normalize, and forward statistics and events from the BIG-IP to a consumer application by POSTing a single TS JSON declaration to TS’s declarative REST API endpoint.

Telemetry Streaming uses a declarative model, meaning you provide a JSON declaration rather than a set of imperative commands.

This guide contains information on downloading, installing, and using the Telemetry Streaming Extension.

Click the following links to go directly to the supported third-party consumer example declaration:

• Splunk
• Microsoft Azure Log Analytics
• AWS Cloud Watch
• AWS S3
• Graphite
• Kafka
• ElasticSearch
• Sumo Logic
• StatsD
• Generic HTTP

You can use Microsoft Visual Studio Code to validate your declarations, see Validating a declaration for information.

See our Telemetry Streaming overview video:

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Telemetry Streaming:

• Prerequisites and Requirements
• Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
• Quick Start
• Downloading and installing Telemetry Streaming
• Using Telemetry Streaming
• Example Declarations
• Example Output
• Data Modification
• Troubleshooting
• Document Revision History
• Appendix A: Schema Reference