F5 Agility Labs - Index

Welcome to the F5 Analytics and Visibility Solutions lab at F5 Agility 2026

The content contained here leverages a full DevOps CI/CD pipeline and is sourced from the GitHub repository at https://github.com/f5devcentral/f5-agility-labs-analytics. Bugs and Requests for enhancements can be made by opening an Issue within the repository.

Contents:

• Class 1 - Introduction to AVR
  • Introduction
    • Lab Environment Setup
    • Accessing the Lab Environment
  • Configuring AVR to generate on-box Analytics reports
    • Task 1 – Provision the AVR module
    • Task 2 – Create a new Analytics profile and attach it to your Virtual Servers
  • Viewing the Analytics data
• Class 2 - Integration with Splunk
  • Introduction
    • Lab Environment Setup
    • Accessing the Lab Environment
  • Configuring Splunk to use the F5 Splunk app
    • Task 1: Install the F5 Splunk app in Splunk
  • Configuring the BIG-IP to send analytics data to Splunk
    • Task 2: Import and configure the F5 Analytics iApp template on the BIG-IP
  • Notes on the F5/Splunk Integration
    • F5.analytics iApp on BIG-IP
    • F5 Networks Splunk App for Splunk
    • Configuration options for F5.analytics iApp and the F5 Networks Splunk app
  • Viewing the Analytics Data in Splunk
    • Task 3: Visualize the analytics data in Splunk
• Class 3 - F5 Telemetry Streaming
  • Getting Started
    • Lab Topology
    • Lab Components
  • Join UDF Course
  • Review API Calls
  • Deploy a Web Application
  • Telemetry Streaming With Kibana
  • Telemetry Streaming With AWS Cloudwatch
• Class 4 - Talking telemetry and observability with F5
  • Overview
  • Exercise 1 - App instrumentation walk-through and troubleshooting
    • Deploy blueprint and connect to jumpbox
    • Review sample application instrumentation
    • Review the sample application
    • Troubleshooting - “Sorry…something must be misconfigured”
  • Exercise 2 - Exporting NGINX Plus spans and metrics using Open Telemetry
    • Configure NGINX tracing
    • Configure NGINX metrics
  • Exercise 3 - Exporting BIG-IP metrics using the OTel consumer
    • Review OTel Collector configuration
    • Configure the BIG-IP for telemetry streaming
    • Associate logging profiles with BIG-IP virutual server
    • Verify data delivery
• Class 5 - F5 Insight for ADSP (AppWorld 2026 | 2 Hours)
  • Getting Started
    • Lab Topology
    • Lab Components
    • Overview
    • What is F5 Insight?
    • Deploy blueprint and connect to F5 Insight
  • Introduction
    • F5 Insight Lab
    • How to use this lab
  • Ticket 01 – Explore the Top N Dashboard
    • Title: “What insights can you quickly gather from the Top N view?”
  • Ticket 02 – Analyze Traffic Patterns for an Application
    • Title: “When is our application experiencing peak traffic?”
  • Ticket 03 – Determine Last Application Outage
    • Title: “When was the last outage for this new web server?”
  • Ticket 04 – Review Connection Count Deviation (VS)
    • Title: “Why are some virtual servers showing connection count deviations?”
  • Ticket 05 – Review Pool Availability Ratio Deviation
    • Title: “Are any application pools experiencing availability degradation?”
  • Ticket 06 – Identifying Orphaned Objects
    • Title: “What are these unused pools and nodes?”
  • Ticket 07 – Verify Application Configuration Consistency Across BIG-IPs
    • Title: “Why Is My Application Not Performing the Same Across Regions?”
  • Ticket 08 – Identifying HTTP Versions in Use
    • Title: “What HTTP version is this app really using?”
  • Ticket 09 – Investigating APM Session Activity Across Devices
    • Title: “Which BIG-IPs Are Actively Handling APM Sessions?”
  • Ticket 10 – Investigating a Slow Pool Member
    • Title: “Why is one web server so slow?”
  • Ticket 11 – Uneven Load Balancing
    • Title: “Are My Profiles Well?”
  • Ticket 12 – CMP Demotion Caused by iRule Globals
    • Title: “Why is this virtual server only using one CPU?”
  • Ticket 13 – WAF Blocking a Known Apache Struts-Like Probe
    • Title: “Security test shows WAF blocks Struts exploit attempt”
  • Ticket 14 – Identify Busiest Client IP from WAF Events
    • Title: “What is the busiest client IP address on CentralRegion-bigip-01 related to WAF events?”
  • Ticket 15 - Upload and Validate TMOS Software Images
    • Title: “How do I upload and validate TMOS software images in F5 Insight for later distribution?”
• Insight Fleet Mgmt Lab: Software Upgrades, Updates, and Patching
  • Lab Overview
    • Getting Started
    • Introduction