Introducing TCP Analytics

I'm pleased to announce that F5® TMOS® 12.1 is the first release to contain our TCP Analytics package. If you would like to measure how well TCP is delivering application data, perform A/B testing, o...
Published Aug 12, 2016
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Sep 15, 2016

A very nice article indeed! I know in the AVR documentation is mentions that there can be a performance hit when turning on analytics; is that also the case for TCP analytics? If so, how much of a hit are we talking about? I currently have 99 virtual servers, most seeing a little less than 100K a day; would having TCP analytics, or HTTP analytics for that matter, make a noticeable impact on the performance from a client perspective?