Welcome to F5 Telemetry Streaming with Prometheus & Grafana lab guide

Lab goals:

• Demonstrate Robust F5 BIG-IP visibility and metrics for F5 BIGIP using F5 Telemetry Streaming with Prometheus & Grafana.

Other goals:

• Leverage DevOps tools and Declarative APIs
• Demonstrate deploying a Telemetry Streaming Pull Target configuration via F5 Automation Toolchain API

Demo readiness:

• This guide will walk you through the steps for setting up the Telemetry Streaming target. However, the UDF also is ready to use as a dashboard “demo” environment upon startup. Skip directly to Module 4 to explore the Grafana Dashboard capabilities.

Contents:

• Section 1 - Using DevOps tools
• Section 2 - Send a Telemetry Streaming Declaration
• Section 3 - Verify available Metrics
• Section 4 - Viewing TS Metrics on Prometheus/Grafana

Note

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