For more information regarding the security incident at F5, the actions we are taking to address it, and our ongoing efforts to protect our customers, click here.

Forum Discussion

1 Reply

  • Hannes_Rapp's avatar
    Hannes_Rapp
    Icon for Nimbostratus rankNimbostratus
    Oct 02, 2015

    That number is the total of all established clientside connections. These include Real User connections, but also app-to-app connections that are merely routed via F5 in your local network (i.e Forwarding type VS). It's not a good number to refer to when trying to determine the number of Real Users. For that, I would recommend you to request statistics from the application team. It would be virtually impossible to come up with that number by counting connections in F5 because 1 network connection rarely equates to 1 Real User. It can be anywhere from 1 to 20 connections per 1 Real User with typical modern apps.

    If you would like to determine the number of current connections for a particular application, you can do that by navigating to 

    Local Traffic -> Virtual Servers -> Statistics
    . In this view, the field "Current" is what you're looking for. Another interesting field "Max" is the all-time peak of current connections since last counter reset or reboot.