Introduction to F5 Analytics

--> Analytics also known as Application Visibility and Reporting Module on BIG IP system.

--> Analytics used to analyze the performance of virtual servers configured on F5 BIG IP Systems.

--> Analaytics can collect following information which helps the administrator to analyze the current performance and identify the issues in web applications configured on F5 Systems:

1) Server Latency

2) Client Latency

3) Server Throughput

4) Transactions per second

5) Number of sessions

--> Analytics also provides following information about the traffic passing to the Virtual Server such as,

1) Top Countries

2) Top URLS

3) Top Pool Members

4) IP Addresses

5) Top Response codes

--> Analytic information can be stored locally to BIG IP system or it can be stored on remote locations such as syslog server or SIEM Server.

--> Analytic can also be configured to send email alerts whenever a problem or particular limit is reached on Virtual Server.

--> Analytics is dependent on Adobe Flash Player.

--> There are two types of analytic profiles you can configure on BIG IP System:

1) HTTP Analytics Profile: To check web application statstics

2) TCP Analytics Profile: To check TCP statstics

--> By default, AVR ( Application Visibility Reporting) Module contains a default profile known as analytics.

--> Analytics profile works as parent profile for all the analytic profiles you create on BIG IP System.