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bostonareaguy
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Dec 30, 2025

In Using the AST tool am I pointing it to TENANTS or to the F5OS(hardware) I have?

So I have an AST tool installation however I pointed the logins to each tenant I'm running...   I was just wondering if I also should point a login to the hardware(F5OS level) as well or is AST str...
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BramsBytes
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Jan 02, 2026

It's main goal is to provide application insights, so yeah, it's a tenant monitoring tool. Also it leverages the iControl REST API to pull data from the F5's into the OpenTelemetry collector and then to Prometheus and Grafana. 

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    bostonareaguy
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    Jan 05, 2026

    yes my boss asked me if it was both.. a Hardware F5OS and Big-IP tenant tool I said I thought it was just for the tenants

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      BramsBytes
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      Jan 05, 2026

      You could of course use a SNMP collector to ingest the host data into Prometheus and create your own Grafana dashboards with that data.