F5 Big-IP Receiver

This receiver fetches stats from a F5 Big-IP node using F5’s iControl REST API.

1. F5 Big-IP Receiver
   1. Prerequisites
   2. Configuration
      1. Example Configuration
   3. Metrics

Prerequisites

This receiver supports Big-IP versions 11.6.5+

Configuration

The following settings are required:

• username
• password

The following settings are optional:

• endpoint (default: https://localhost:443): The URL of the Big-IP environment.
• collection_interval (default = 10s): This receiver collects metrics on an interval. Valid time units are ns, us (or µs), ms, s, m, h.
• tls (defaults defined here): TLS control. By default insecure settings are rejected and certificate verification is on.
• enable_http_client_metrics (default = false): Enable collection of metrics for http client requests to the device.
• page_item_limit (default = 100): The number of objects per page for paginated api requests
• concurrent_workers (default = 2): The number of concurrent API requests per receiver.
• data_types (default: all enabled): This map allows you to enable / disable collection and sending of data by type. The list of available data types can be found in ./config.go, in the DataTypesConfig struct definition.

Example Configuration

receivers:
  bigip:
    collection_interval: 10s
    endpoint: https://localhost:443
    username: otelu
    password: ${env:BIGIP_PASSWORD}
    tls:
      insecure_skip_verify: true
    enable_http_client_metrics: true
    concurrent_workers: 2
    page_item_limit: 100
    data_types:
      f5.profile.web_acceleration:
        enabled: false
        attribute_name: some_alternative_data_type_name

Available data_types:

f5.collector
f5.license
f5.module
f5.node
f5.plane
f5.policy.eviction
f5.policy.firewall
f5.policy.ip_intelligence
f5.policy.api_protection
f5.policy.bandwidth_control
f5.policy.nat
f5.pool
f5.profile.client_ssl
f5.profile.server_ssl
f5.profile.dos
f5.profile.fasthttp
f5.profile.fastl4
f5.profile.http
f5.profile.one_connect
f5.profile.quic
f5.profile.udp
f5.profile.tcp
f5.profile.http2
f5.profile.http3
f5.profile.web_acceleration
f5.rule
f5.ssl_certificate
f5.system
f5.virtual_server
f5.policy.asm
f5.dns                          ### DEFAULT DISABLE
f5.gtm                          ### DEFAULT DISABLE

TLS config is documented further under the opentelemetry collector’s configtls package.

Metrics

Details about the metrics produced by this receiver can be found in Receiver Metrics Info