Beacon: application visibility and analytics
Discover all your app investments, gain intelligence, and optimize experience
F5 Beacon, a SaaS solution, empowers end-to-end visibility across your application portfolio and offers anomaly detection, root cause analysis, and security compliance assurance to drive better-informed decisions and improve customer experience.
HOW IT WORKS
Empower your team with full application visibility, analytics, and actionable insights.
What Can Beacon Do for Me?
See What You’ve Been Missing
Beacon makes it easy to get visibility into all your applications, enterprise wide. Check health status and security posture, see the cost associated with your app workloads and environments, and use actionable insights from customizable dashboards to explore user experience and performance characteristics. All in a simple, easy-to-consume SaaS model.
End-to-End App Modeling
F5 Beacon delivers end-to-end application topology modeling that leverages an open API, application data path visibility and diverse ecosystem integrations to build a complete view of your applications, as well as their components and dependencies.
User Experience, Health, and Performance
Quickly gain visibility across your application portfolio that enables rapid access to application health and performance metrics.
Actionable Insights
Get actionable insights that drive impactful business decisions at speed. Built-in and custom insights fuse disparate telemetry data and enable rapid anomaly detection, as well as root cause and impact analysis.
Extensible Platform Integrates with F5 BIG-IP, F5 BIG-IQ, and NGINX
Beacon’s declarative APIs ensure seamless connection to your automation tools and CI/CD pipelines. These APIs also enable a broad set of integrations with open-source and third-party solutions, some of which are shown below.
Visibility and analytics
Get full visibility into your entire app landscape—complete with robust analytics.
Powerful app insights
Get easy-to-consume, actionable insights to help you make business decisions.
Health and performance monitoring
Optimize application and infrastructure performance monitoring of all your apps.
Customizable dashboard
Make your dashboard work for you with multiple views of your apps.
Seamless integration
Configure everything via API or use the simple, intuitive GUI to monitor your apps.
SaaS simplicity
Set up in minutes. Realize benefits faster.
REPORT
2021 State of Application Strategy Report
Data is not enough: 95% of organizations don't have the insights they need.
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Documentation
Get up to speed on Beacon by reviewing our comprehensive documentation and release notes.