Getting started with F5 Distributed Cloud (XC) Telemetry

  Introduction:  This is an introductory article on the F5 Distributed Cloud (XC) telemetry series covering the basics. Going forward, there will be more articles focusing on exporting and visual...
Updated Aug 25, 2025
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Jan_Loukota
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Jul 25, 2025

Hello,

 

could you please describe more in detail how to collect telemetry from XC? I mean the XC Log Receiver is for sending logs, not for telemetry streaming. I cant see any valid option in documentation.

 

Thanks :)

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Shubham_Mishra
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Jul 28, 2025

Hi,

Apart from XC GLR, there also exist XC service graph APIs that contains metrics data. so we need to write some intermediary exporter scripts to fetch those data and send it to different telemetry tools for further processing and visualization.

Also, this is just an introductory article where I've covered the basics, there'll be more articles covering in-depth of exporting logs and metrics to different SIEM tools.