F5 Insight Documentation

Welcome to the F5 Insight documentation. F5 Insight is an on-premises observability and operational strategy solution for the F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform.

Use these guides to deploy, configure, and manage F5 Insight.

Tip

Upgrading or troubleshooting? See the known issues in the current release notes before you begin.

Start here

• Overview
• Deployment Guide
  • Deploy F5 Insight Services on Proxmox VE
  • Deploy F5 Insight Services on VMware ESXi / vSphere
  • Deploy F5 Insight Services on OpenStack Instance
• Admin Guide
  • Installation vs. deployment
  • F5 Insight: First login
  • Advanced: Pre-boot static IP configuration (VMware only)
  • Licensing and entitlements
  • Manage licensing in disconnected (air-gapped) environments
  • Disconnected mode licensing tool
  • External Authentication and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
    • External authentication and role-based access control
    • Configure remote authentication with a preferred FQDN
  • Modify the network configuration
  • Modify the device certificate
  • Expand the F5 Insight virtual disk
  • Metrics proxy
  • Troubleshooting
  • Upgrade F5 Insight
    • Upgrade F5 Insight
  • Back up and Restore F5 Insight
    • Back up and restore F5 Insight
  • Disaster Recovery Guide
    • Configure disaster recovery
    • Upgrade with Disaster Recovery enabled
• Support bundle

Configure and operate

• User Guide
  • Homepage
  • BIG-IP device and data center management
  • AST Migration Guide

Fleet management

• Fleet management
  • Software Installations: Upgrades, Updates, and Patching
    • Software image management
    • Software distribution jobs
    • Software installation jobs

AI chat assistance

• AI Assistant
  • LLM insights
  • AI Chat History
  • AI Assistant Audit Console
  • BIG-IP heap tuning with AI Chat

F5 AI Data Fabric

• AI Data Fabric
  • F5 AI Data Fabric
  • Application telemetry and F5 AI Data Fabric
  • Configure F5 Insight Lite

Release notes

• Release Notes
  • F5 Insight 1.2.3 release notes
  • Security updates

API

• API reference (v1.2.2)
  • API reference (v1.2.2)