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
Version 1.0
application delivery
BIG-IP
LTM
series-the-tcp-profile
tcp
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Martin_Duke
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Sep 15, 2016

It obviously depends on many factors, but in our experience working with it the CPU and memory hit was less than 10%. Whether that would be noticeable for your clients depends on the hardware you have and how hard each connection works the BIG-IP.

 

Also, the more you refine your statistics collection (e.g. turning it on only by iRule) the less of a performance impact there will be.