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Vshah
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Jun 02, 2023

How to extract applications historical data from F5 LTM

Hi All, I am looking for historical connections utilization data of applications hosted on F5 LTM. Is there any way to check the same? 
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Mohamed_Ahmed_Kansoh
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Hi Vshah , 
If yiu have AVR module licensed on your box , you can collect everything related to specific virtual servers/ Applications. 

you will be having great visability on application urls , transactions , ips , Geolocations , which heavy urls that have and ...etc. 

Let me know if you have this module , I can guide you to use it properly. 
If you need to know about it and how to provision it in your box  , have a look at the below Article : 
https://clouddocs.f5.com/training/community/analytics/html/class1/modules/task1.html

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Vshah
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Jun 05, 2023

Hi @ Mohamed_Ahmed_Kansoh,

Thanks for your response. Yes I am using AVR module.

Kindly guide me how can I get the data from that.

 

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    Mohamed_Ahmed_Kansoh
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    Jun 05, 2023

    Hi Vshah, 
    you are welcome, 

    AVR is a very useful module to collect huge amount of metrics and application statistics : 
    First I will tell you the needed steps and will attach an article will help you in details : 

    1- create a custom analytic profile , Local traffic >> profiles >> Analystics >> HTTP Analytics >> and
    hit create.

    2- Select in the profile all needed metrics that you want to collect and select the virtual server that you need to collect these metrics for. 
    Note : you can add multiple virtual servers as you can , but please monitor your CPU and memory because AVR consumes little bit CPU , if you have a free in CPU and memory it would be great.

    3-  Hit Finish and wait almost 10 minutes , for changes to take effect and the bigip recieve a sufficient traffic. 

    4- After that let's say 1 hour for example :
    Go to Statistics TAB >> Analytics >> HTTP >> Overview. 
    you will see the magic 😄 
    you can navegate all statistics also play with time slots and you can export a pdf report to review everything offline and extra ... 

    Please Review this article for more details : 
    https://clouddocs.f5.com/training/community/analytics/html/class1/modules/task2.html

    I hope this helps you 🙂