BigStats v0.4 has been released! Yay!!! 
Way back in REDtalks.live #32 – Stats & Dashboards (May 25th) I demonstrated a prototype solution for getting useful data out of a BIG-IP and into various telemetry pipelines… Well, that was version 0.1, and now we’re up to version 0.4! So, what’s happened since?
Highlights from the RELEASE_NOTES.md file:
- We now have a RELEASE_NOTES.md file to track all the awesome!
- Support for Apache Kafka message brokers
- Support for both AS3 declarations AND traditional configurations (it originally only supported the AS3 declarative interface).
- Support for output sizing: Small (VIP Stats only), Medium (VIP + Pool stats), Large (working on this….)
- Support for Device Stats (RAM and CPU)
- Apache Kafka ‘topic’ config:
- All data in one topic, or;
- Separate topics per BIG-IP Tenant
- Enforced minimum polling interval of 10 seconds (play safe, kids)
- Added “config.enabled: true|false” to the config because, sometimes you want some peace and quiet.
- Provided a BigStatsSettings object schema (schema validator might be coming soon..)
Here’s an sample stats object built from crawling the running config of a BIG-IP every ‘config.interval: n‘ seconds:
{
"ip-172-31-1-20-us-west-1-compute-internal": {
"services": {
"Tenant_01/App1": {
"/Tenant_01/App3/172.31.4.11:80": {
"clientside_curConns": 0,
"clientside_maxConns": 0,
"clientside_bitsIn": 0,
"clientside_bitsOut": 0,
"clientside_pktsIn": 0,
"clientside_pktsOut": 0,
"/Tenant_01/App1/web_pool1": [
{
"172.31.10.112:80": {
"serverside_curConns": 0,
"serverside_maxConns": 0,
"serverside_bitsIn": 0,
"serverside_bitsOut": 0,
"serverside_pktsIn": 0,
"serverside_pktsOut": 0,
"monitorStatus": "down"
}
},
{
"172.31.10.111:80": {
"serverside_curConns": 0,
"serverside_maxConns": 0,
"serverside_bitsIn": 0,
"serverside_bitsOut": 0,
"serverside_pktsIn": 0,
"serverside_pktsOut": 0,
"monitorStatus": "down"
}
},
{
"172.31.10.113:80": {
"serverside_curConns": 0,
"serverside_maxConns": 0,
"serverside_bitsIn": 0,
"serverside_bitsOut": 0,
"serverside_pktsIn": 0,
"serverside_pktsOut": 0,
"monitorStatus": "down"
}
},
{
"172.31.10.114:80": {
"serverside_curConns": 0,
"serverside_maxConns": 0,
"serverside_bitsIn": 0,
"serverside_bitsOut": 0,
"serverside_pktsIn": 0,
"serverside_pktsOut": 0,
"monitorStatus": "down"
}
}
]
}
},
"Common": {
"/Common/172.31.4.200:80": {
"clientside_curConns": 0,
"clientside_maxConns": 0,
"clientside_bitsIn": 0,
"clientside_bitsOut": 0,
"clientside_pktsIn": 0,
"clientside_pktsOut": 0,
"/Common/noAS3_POOL": [
{
"172.31.10.200:8080": {
"serverside_curConns": 0,
"serverside_maxConns": 0,
"serverside_bitsIn": 0,
"serverside_bitsOut": 0,
"serverside_pktsIn": 0,
"serverside_pktsOut": 0,
"monitorStatus": "down"
}
},
{
"172.31.10.201:8080": {
"serverside_curConns": 0,
"serverside_maxConns": 0,
"serverside_bitsIn": 0,
"serverside_bitsOut": 0,
"serverside_pktsIn": 0,
"serverside_pktsOut": 0,
"monitorStatus": "down"
}
},
{
"172.31.10.202:8080": {
"serverside_curConns": 0,
"serverside_maxConns": 0,
"serverside_bitsIn": 0,
"serverside_bitsOut": 0,
"serverside_pktsIn": 0,
"serverside_pktsOut": 0,
"monitorStatus": "down"
}
}
]
}
}
},
"device": {
"memory": {
"memoryTotal": 7574732800,
"memoryUsed": 1525312880
},
"cpu0": {
"cpuIdle": 161495459,
"cpuIowait": 169763,
"cpuSystem": 292088,
"cpuUser": 973939
},
"cpu1": {
"cpuIdle": 160343033,
"cpuIowait": 68690,
"cpuSystem": 426881,
"cpuUser": 992052
}
}
}
}
Here’s the code/docs: https://github.com/f5devcentral/BigStats
In addition to all this awesome, I’ve also shared my lab environment setup details! So, if you want to build a Graphite/Grafana demo like in episode #32, or maybe you want to test against a single node Kafka Broker but don’t know how to do this, well, look no further. Here are all my lab setup instructions: https://gist.github.com/npearce/
Thanks for listening!
