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CirrocumulusTelemetry streaming directly to elastic
NimbostratusHi,
I am wondering if you made any progress with the F5 Telemetry streaming to Elasticsearch. I have enabled Telemetry Streaming on a F5 loadbalancer directly sending my Elasticsearch, but I can't get it work.
Maybe you are able to share your experience and help me? Would really appreciate it since I feel very lost regarding this issue.
CirrocumulusHi,
No we put it on ice and are now working on a prometheus solution instead. Have you check out the application study tool on github? If not, take a look at it. I´ve set it up in my local lab, you get very good info there and a feel for what you can do with prometheus. It´s a pull setup so, the tool logs in with a (in my case) auditor account and collects the info needed and presents it in a very good way. Maybe it´s doable for elastic in some similiar way but I dont know.
Here the link:
https://github.com/f5devcentral/application-study-tool
I've tried ElasticSearch in my home lab, but there were a few gotchas and it was a bit of a headache in order to get it to work (e.g. reindexing the F5 Timestamp).
I haven't used the Application Study Tool yet, but it looks good especially if you are managing a fleet of BIG-IP devices.
Currently, in my lab I am just using Prometheus as a pull consumer for metrics and SNMP polling to get the information that I need from the BIG-IP into my Grafana dashboard and I am quite impressed with the results. It's definitely a lot easier than getting ElasticSearch to work.
Grafana Dashboard Screenshot:
