11/14/2023 0 Comments Istats![]() ![]() Hopefully the picture that is shaping up is as obvious to everyone else as it is to me. - iStats can be both read and modified by the control plane, I.E.- Any consumer of iStats (even iRules) will always get the global view (meaning, not on a per-TMM basis, but rather aggregated over all stat producers), which is extremely important in many cases where you want to look at the overall picture when referencing a stat, not a per TMM number, given that there are multiple if not many TMMs per device in most cases.- iStats do not have to be preconfigured or predefined, they can be built on the fly, effectively.- Users can create an arbitrary number of iStats (although there is a practical limit of 5,000-10,000 iStats).In contrast, let's look at iStats in a similar way and compare the differences: They aren't amazingly flexible, and provide limited hooks into the control plane (command line, GUI, etc.) which makes them somewhat isolated from the bigger picture of your BIG-IP's configuration and existence at large. While a stats profile can be useful in many cases, it is largely used to track data plane only metrics such as connections, data rates, etc. ![]()
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