Manual Chapter :
Evaluating application services
Applies To:
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BIG-IQ Centralized Management
- 8.3.0, 8.2.0, 8.1.0, 8.0.0
Evaluating application services
You can monitor your applications for health issues and active alerts to
mitigate potential impact on the application services. Evaluating application service data
provides insights, based on its service type. If you identify an issue with your services
you can edit your application service, or objects connected to your application service, such as policies and profiles. Application evaluation is supported by all types of applications, including AS3, Service Catalog (SC), or Legacy applications (applications created without AS3 or SC template).
For more information about editing application configuration, see
Use BIG-IQ to Manage Applications
, or Use BIG-IQ to Manage AS3 templates.
For more information about minimum requirements for statistics visibility, see
Configuring Statistics Collection
.Traffic Management
Local traffic data provides analytics into the latency of the end-to-end
transactions between the client and server. Transaction data is collected based on your configuration of the TCP or HTTP application services. Using transaction data, you can identify:
- Trends in traffic throughput, including general latency
- Issues affecting the application's servers
- Issues affecting virtual servers
- Client-reported latency
Devices
Device data provides analytics into the resource usage and traffic to
your BIG-IP environment. Using this data, you can identify:
- Device resource usage and status (CPU, memory, etc.)
- Traffic throughput over time
Security
Web application security data and alerts provide indications of the
application service's protection and the malicious traffic detected by your protection
profiles. Using HTTP traffic data detected by security policies you can identify:
- General trends in potential security threats
- False positives generated by a policy that is actively blocking traffic
- Attacks that reached your application servers when a policy is in monitoring (transparent) protection
- Overall application protection. For applications with multiple application services, when at least one application service is monitoring and another is blocking, the protection status isMixed Mode.
DNS
DNS services report the query responses per second (RPS) and the outcomes of
DNS traffic. Using data from traffic within your DNS domain you can identify:
- Trends in DNS traffic
- Results of DNS load balancing decisions
