F5 Insight for ADSP
Take control of application delivery and security with expertly-crafted observability, AI-powered operational narratives, and governed management workflows.
Actionable intelligence and fleet management to enhance operations
A core component of the F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform (ADSP) is holistic visibility of apps, services, and operating environment resources. F5 Insight for ADSP enables ops teams to focus efforts where they’re most needed, find answers more quickly, optimize deployments, and execute updates faster in the frontier AI era.
Comprehensive observability
Deep F5-specific intelligence across apps and devices
- Automatically map your environment: Monitor and correlate signals from virtual servers, security events, and hardware health across all environments.
- Get a clear, unified view: Use data-rich dashboards and reporting to understand the full application and infrastructure story.
- AI-powered intelligence: Discover and categorize running applications using passive traffic signals into 24 distinct workload types, including healthcare, finance, and AI services.
- Federated telemetry freedom: Keep your existing monitoring stacks by easily exporting deep, curated F5 metrics over standard OTel remote-write and enhance them with domain-specific F5 metrics that generic IT tools miss.
Guided management
Simplify, streamline, and scale fleet-wide operations
- Holistic fleet management: Use guided workflows to quickly and easily distribute and install software patches, updates, and upgrades across your entire fleet in parallel.
- Unified fleet-wide visibility: See what needs attention first so patching and updates stay focused, predictable, and on schedule.
- License-aware safeguards: Avoid post-reboot failures with automated pre-upgrade checks that validate license dates and provisioned entitlements before execution.
- Zero-risk rollback recovery: Prove update readiness with pre- and post-flight snapshots, backup/restore functionality, and easily return to a known-good state if issues arise.
- Enterprise resilience: Protect configurations easily by scheduling, staging, and executing secure, encrypted UCS backups from a single console.
Transformed operations
Put an F5-certified resident expert in your environment
- Intuitive health scorecards: Triage operations instantly with home-page health and security scores that show what needs attention and list contributing factors.
- Natural language diagnostics: Ask complex questions about virtual server status, iRule resource use, or security configurations in plain conversational English.
- AI-driven remediation plans: Instantly translate raw logs and metrics into clear, step-by-step action plans to resolve performance bottlenecks and slash MTTR.
- Immutable governance trails: Protect and audit every AI interaction with a secure, tamper-evident audit ledger built to satisfy strict compliance needs.
Security and governance
Track and verify posture, compliance, and readiness
- Crypto-exposure mapping: Stay ahead of security audits and migration mandates by identifying expiring certificates, inventorying cryptographic assets, and tracking PQC readiness.
- Fine-grained access controls: Enforce robust operational boundaries by mapping system access to established enterprise roles and responsibilities.
- Tamper-evident audit logs: Maintain compliance with secure, permanent activity ledgers that track all administrative actions and upgrade operations.
Core capabilities
Unified visibility
Get instant clarity across app and device health
Holistic fleet management
Update, upgrade, and license instances quickly, safely, at scale
Resident expert AI
Get clear answers from telemetry using natural language
Health and report cards
Use scored reporting to quickly see and resolve risk
Resourcing telemetry
See CPU and memory use by iRule, workload, and device
Post-quantum visibility
Inventory cryptographic assets and determine PQC readiness
Enterprise governance
RBAC, SAML SSO, and immutable audit log for AI interactions
Extensible by design
Stream F5 metrics directly into your SIEM or APM tool
Product overview
F5 Insight deployment options
Public cloud
Unify visibility of apps and devices together with holistic fleet management under a single control plane solution—deployable in AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and others.
Private cloud
Combine high-performance observability and management with the data sovereignty and peace of mind that comes with private cloud environments.
On premises
Maintain full observability and operations functionality in on-prem or fully air-gapped environments.
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SOLUTION OVERVIEW
Unified application and infrastructure visibility
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F5 Insight for ADSP
Technology alliances
The tools you know, brought together in a unified solution
F5 Insight uses best in class open-source tools including custom OpenTelemetry resources, VictoriaMetrics database, and a Grafana instance with expertly-crafted dashboards to provide a holistic picture of your apps, infrastructure, and the workflows to manage fleets at scale.
Frequently asked questions
Bouncing between disconnected monitoring dashboards, manual CLI upgrade tools,and different GUIs is tedious and prone to human error. F5 Insight unifies visibility and response into a single, guided operations experience. Junior and senior operators alike can query estate health in conversational English and receive step-by-step remediation plans. When maintenance is required, the platform automates safe, parallel TMOS upgrades with built-in pre- and post-flight validation checks—eliminating manual configuration errors and freeing your engineers to focus on strategic initiatives.
Many APM and SIEM solutions treat F5 infrastructure as a generic host, relying on raw, volume-heavy syslog data that drives up data-ingestion costs. F5 Insight is domain-native and complementary to your existing tools. Rather than just dumping raw logs, F5 Insight automatically correlates Layer 4–7 traffic, virtual servers, SSL profiles, and hardware health into preconfigured, actionable dashboard metrics. Best of all, by filtering and managing your F5-specific telemetry locally, you can optimize your total cost of ownership (TCO) by reducing the volume of expensive raw metrics sent to third-party APM platforms.
Traditional troubleshooting forces your NetOps and SRE teams to manually dig through complex CLI outputs, raw syslog streams, and disconnected packet captures during an active outage. F5 Insight places F5’s decades of application delivery expertise directly into your team's workflow through a conversational AI assistant. Operators can query the health of their entire hybrid estate in plain, natural English—such as "Why is application latency spiking on the secondary cluster?"—and receive immediate, pre-correlated diagnostic summaries. By replacing manual log hunting with instant, intelligent operational narratives and guided remediation steps, you can scale your team's capabilities, reduce human error, and slash your mean-time-to-repair (MTTR) from hours to seconds.
F5 Insight reduces operational administrative overhead and transforms fleet maintenance into a simple, streamlined process. Through a single, governed dashboard, F5 Insight lets you orchestrate safe, parallel TMOS updates and configuration backups across your entire physical and virtual hybrid estate. Built-in pre- and post-flight validation checks automatically verify traffic flow, device health, and security configurations at every step of the process. If any unexpected behavior is detected during a patch cycle, F5 Insight provides automated rollback options, completely eliminating manual configuration errors and ensuring 100% application uptime.