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.

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
  • Deploy F5 Insight services on AWS EC2
• Admin Guide
  • Installation vs. deployment
  • F5 Insight: First login
  • Advanced: Pre-boot static IP configuration (VMware only)
  • Licensing
    • Licensing and entitlements
    • Manage licensing in disconnected (air-gapped) environments
    • Disconnected mode licensing tool
  • Local authentication and role-based access control (RBAC)
    • System authentication
    • Local authentication and role-based access control (RBAC)
    • Machine users
    • Using f5insight-auth-mode to change the login mode
  • External Authentication and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
    • External authentication and role-based access control
    • Configure remote authentication with a preferred FQDN
    • LDAP authentication
    • SAML authentication
    • Manage roles and access control
  • Modify the network configuration
  • Configure an outbound forward proxy
  • Modify the device certificate
  • Expand the F5 Insight virtual disk
  • Metrics proxy
  • Enable or disable BIG-IP metrics collection
  • 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
  • Post-Quantum Readiness
    • Post-Quantum Readiness
  • Backup Instances
    • Backup BIG-IP and F5OS instances
  • Restore Instances
    • Restore BIG-IP and F5OS instances
  • Boot Other Volume
    • Boot BIG-IP into another volume
  • Rollback Instances
    • Rollback a software installation
  • License Management
    • F5 Instance License Management

AI chat assistance

• AI Assistant
  • Configure LLM settings for AI Chat
  • AI Chat History
  • AI Assistant Audit Console
  • BIG-IP heap tuning with AI Chat
  • Query telemetry with AI Chat

Export data to external destination

• Export data to external destinations
  • AI Data Fabric
    • F5 AI Data Fabric
    • Application telemetry and F5 AI Data Fabric
    • Configure F5 Insight Lite
  • Configure OpenTelemetry export destinations
    • Configure OpenTelemetry export destinations

Release notes

• Release Notes
  • F5 Insight 2.0.0 release notes
  • Security updates

API

• API reference (v2.0.0)
  • API reference (v2.0.0)