F5 Big-IP Receiver

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

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: TLS control. By default, insecure settings are rejected and certificate verification is on.

Example Configuration

receivers:
  bigip:
    collection_interval: 10s
    endpoint: https://localhost:443
    username: otelu
    password: ${env:BIGIP_PASSWORD}
    tls:
      insecure_skip_verify: true

The full list of settings exposed for this receiver are documented in config.go with detailed sample configurations in testdata/config.yaml. 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 documentation.md