Getting Started with iControl: Working with Statistics
In the previous article in the Getting Started with iControl series, we threw the lion's share of languages at you for both iControl portals, exposing you to many of the possible attack angles availa...
Published Jun 17, 2016
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Hi JPV, through our APIs, the only historical stats we keep are in the high level performance graphs. I wrote an article on those APIs in this iControl 101 article.
 
The performance graphs are just for high level statistics. For object-level stats and states, you will have to write code to pull them down at your interval of choice using the various module APIs and store them locally. BIG-IP doesn't keep historical data for all configuration changes outside of audit logs which may or may not have all the information you need. We have our AVR reporting module that may help you get closer to where you want to go, but odds are if you are looking for granular specific historical changes, you'll need to build a polling system and collect the data yourself.
 
I'll dig a little deeper to make sure I'm not missing a feature but I'm fairly sure this is the way you'll need to go.
 
-Joe