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F5 Distributed Cloud Observability & Telemetry

F5 Distributed Cloud Observability provides unified end-to-end visibility across global application traffic, infrastructure health, and security events.

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| Distributed Telemetry Data Pipeline |
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| Data Planes (Edge PoPs, Customer Edges, Load Balancers) |
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| v |
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| | Telemetry Collector: Access Logs, Metrics (Prometheus), Spans | |
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| v |
| +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ |
| | Stream Processing & Anomaly Analytics | |
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| +--------------------------+--------------------------+ |
| | Dashboards & Logs | Alerts |
| v v |
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| | F5 XC Console / Grafana UI | | Webhook, PagerDuty, | |
| | Distributed Trace Views | | SIEM Export (Splunk)| |
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Real-Time Access Logs

Detailed Layer 7 request logs with millisecond resolution, TLS cipher metrics, and client geolocations.

Synthetic Health Checks

Continuous HTTP/HTTPS and TCP availability probes tracking latency and SLA thresholds.

Security Event Analytics

Aggregated WAF, Bot, and DDoS attack visualizations with drill-down query filtering.

External SIEM Export

Stream telemetry in JSON format directly to Splunk, Datadog, or AWS S3 buckets.