Atlas ITSI Content Pack for F5 Big-IP Load Balancer
Overview
Details
The ITSI Content Pack for F5 BIG-IP contains service definitions and KPIs ready to import to ITSI. The KPI Thresholds and importance values are set to defaults so that they can be tuned manually for your use case. After configuration, this content pack provides a comprehensive monitoring solution for F5 BIG-IP environments.
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Services
F5 BIG-IP monitoring encompasses several specialized services, each targeting specific aspects of system performance:
- Load Balancer
- Description: Manages the distribution of network or application traffic across multiple servers.
- Network
- Description: Handles network performance metrics such as throughput, latency, and packet loss.
- Application
- Description: Monitors application performance metrics like HTTP request/response time, application errors, and connection counts.
- Security
- Description: Manages security events including firewall events, access policy manager events, and application security manager events.
- Global Traffic Management
- Description: Manages global traffic metrics such as DNS query response time and DNS errors.
- System Health
- Description: Monitors overall system health metrics including CPU utilization, memory utilization, disk usage, and system uptime.
KPIs
Each service utilizes specific KPIs to measure its effectiveness:
- Load Balancer
- Description: Manages the distribution of network or application traffic across multiple servers.
- Network Throughput
- Description: Measures the amount of data passing through the network.
- Network Latency
- Description: Measures the delay in data transmission across the network.
- Packet Loss
- Description: Measures the percentage of packets lost during transmission.
- HTTP Response Time
- Description: Measures the time taken for HTTP requests to be processed.
- App Errors
- Description: Counts the number of errors occurring in the application.
- Connection Counts
- Description: Measures the number of active connections to the application.
- Firewall Events
- Description: Counts the number of firewall-related events.
- APM Events
- Description: Counts the number of Access Policy Manager events.
- ASM Events
- Description: Counts the number of Application Security Manager events.
- DNS Response Time
- Description: Measures the time taken to respond to DNS queries.
- DNS Errors
- Description: Counts the number of errors occurring in DNS queries.
- CPU Pct
- Description: Measures the percentage of CPU utilization.
- Memory Pct
- Description: Measures the percentage of memory utilization.
- Disk Usage
- Description: Measures the percentage of disk space used.
- System Uptime
- Description: Measures the total uptime of the system.
Relationships
Dependencies:
Services are interconnected; for instance, the Load Balancer is dependent on Network, Application, Security, and Global Traffic Management services. Similarly, Network performance relies on System Health to ensure network components are functioning correctly.
Hierarchical Structure:
Some services form a hierarchy, such as System Health being the foundational component that supports all other services, illustrating a layered approach to performance monitoring where base metrics support broader performance indicators.
Release Notes
Version 1.0.0
Documentation Update
Version 0.0.1
| Version | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 0.0.1 | 6/10/24 | Initial Preview Release |