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bentuteh_340831
Nimbostratus
NimbostratusDevice Level Statistics on iControlREST
I am attempting to scrape current F5 Device level statistics for CPU, Memory, etc, from an API to instrument into a monitoring system. I see on the GUI dashboard for my F5 device under statistics ==> performance, but is it possible to pull this information from API? I'm not seeing any promising leads so far in the API documentation, but I also don't know my way around the API particularly well yet. Any insight or guidance would be very appreciated. Thanks!
So I found a few endpoints that can be queried via iControl REST API for these:
/mgmt/tm/sys/cpu /mgmt/tm/sys/memoryThough undocumented, these provide the device-level stats that I was looking for via REST API. Recursion was very helpful in parsing this data as well.
HamishCirrocumulus
SNMP is probably the easiest method to pull stats. And in theory should be more efficient.
There should still be a few examples sprinkled around devcentral. Plus some cacti templates as well.
The SNMP MIBs are available from the GUI.
bentuteh_340831So I found a few endpoints that can be queried via iControl REST API for these:
/mgmt/tm/sys/cpu /mgmt/tm/sys/memoryThough undocumented, these provide the device-level stats that I was looking for via REST API. Recursion was very helpful in parsing this data as well.
paulfishI know this is 3 years old but it is an excellent post.
Do you have a curl example on how to hit these api endpoints in this format?
https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K17283308
If not I'll try and find it and post back.
- paulfish
https://devcentral.f5.com/s/question/0D51T00007BHjOt/collecting-memory-statistics-via-api-icontrol
- paulfish
- curl -sk -u admin -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X GET https://<hostname>/mgmt/tm/sys/memory | jq/jq