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AltocumulusAST and Telemetry Streaming
Hi!
I am quite please with the Application Study Tool, but there is one thing that I keep wondering about.
The OpenTelemetry component (otel-collector) currently pulls data from the F5 using the iControl REST API, however: there is also Telemetry Streaming available. Is it possible to use Telemetry Streaming for getting the data into Prometheus?
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- JasonEpstein
Employee
Hi BramsBytes,
Those are usually separate use cases. Are you looking to combine AST with Telemetry Streaming, or are you just looking to run Telemetry Streaming with Prometheus as the consumer?If you just want to get data into Prometheus, you can find the guide here:
https://clouddocs.f5.com/products/extensions/f5-telemetry-streaming/latest/pull-consumers.html#pullNote that this is a pull by Prometheus -- not a push like in AST -- and it isn't AST (different set of metrics, different data format, and no included Grafana dashboard).
- BramsBytes
I am looking to combine AST with Telemetry Streaming as - from my understanding so far - the Otel Collectory that comes with AST uses iControl calls to obtain the metrics from the F5.
Since Telemetry Streaming supports pushing to an Otel Collector I was wondering if it would be possible to use that method to get data into the AST.
- JasonEpstein
... the Otel Collectory that comes with AST uses iControl calls to obtain the metrics from the F5.
Yes, that is correct.
Since Telemetry Streaming supports pushing to an Otel Collector I was wondering if it would be possible to use that method to get data into the AST.The AST Otel Collector is not currently written to receive data via push. It only has the ability to pull data using the iControl REST API (as you pointed out above). This could certainly be a feature request, but what is the reason you would like push data to it using Telemetry Streaming instead of the pull method it uses today?
