Unified operational intelligence and response
Harness the power of BIG-IP telemetry data to gain an end-to-end view of apps, services, and infrastructure. F5 Insight for ADSP provides dashboards, actionable alerts, AI-driven operational narratives, and enables fleet upgrade workflows and governance controls to help teams respond faster in the age of AI-powered attacks.
What’s Going on with Your Applications?
Distributed applications, infrastructure, and operating environments are now standard. According to 2026 F5 data, 93% of organizations deploy apps across different environments, and organizations of all sizes deal with a median of four public cloud vendors. Many are also shifting workloads back on-premises or into colocation, increasing operational diversity.
The result is fractured visibility. Different teams manage different apps across varied environments, creating operational and telemetry silos. With enterprises using an average of 10 visibility tools, it’s increasingly difficult to know whether applications are healthy and what to do when they are not.
Frontier AI further compresses vulnerability timelines, shrinking the window between discovery and exploitation. Organizations still need safe validation cycles to patch, which extends the exposure window. That makes runtime data-path defenses essential—and makes reliable fleet upgrade execution a core part of security response.
Comprehensive, consolidated visibility and faster operational response
F5® Insight for ADSP redefines how teams see BIG-IP-powered environments across hybrid, multicloud, and multi-site deployments. As the visibility foundation for converged XOps and the F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform (ADSP), it delivers unified, near real-time observability of application performance, security posture, applied policies, and resource utilization—paired with intelligent alerting and guided remediation.
Built for the AI era, Insight helps teams get ahead of risk using holistic visibility, guided workflows, and job-based operations to execute safer upgrades, license devices, backup and restore instances, and rollback configurations—in parallel or serial—across BIG-IP fleets, including high availability (HA) pairs.
With MCP server support, Insight can also be integrated with popular third-party or self hosted LLMs so teams can query telemetry in natural language and generate operational narratives that turn dashboards into clear action plans (LLM integration required).
Insight also includes response workflows with fleet management capabilities for BIG-IP. These workflows are designed for modern maintenance realities, AI-powered vulnerability exploitation, and frontier models: more frequent changes, tighter windows, and the need to reduce operational risk through checks, controlled execution, and a high degree of governance.
Operations teams benefit from actionable insights, reduced mean time to repair (MTTR), and improved efficiency because Insight reduces the administrative burden of fleet and device-level observability and upgrade execution. Unlike generic APM tools, Insight is purpose-built for application delivery and security telemetry and brings decades of F5 expertise to BIG-IP operations.
Conclusion
F5 Insight is not just another monitoring tool—it provides the visibility foundation for ADSP XOps and helps teams move from reactive troubleshooting to proactive operations. By delivering unified observability, expert-built dashboards, intelligent alerting, and AI-driven operational narratives, Insight helps teams reduce downtime, improve performance, and strengthen security across hybrid and multicloud environments.
And with holistic fleet management for TMOS and F5OS-A plus governance-grade controls to support faster, safer, and more accountable responses, Insight can help teams adapt to the operational challenges of frontier AI, including shrinking remediation and patching windows.
To learn more about the solution, contact F5. You can get started with F5 Insight today via MyF5.
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Key benefits
Visibility redefined
Gain comprehensive, consolidated observability across apps, services, and infrastructure in a single location without tool sprawl.
Leverage OpEx-based pricing
Avoid unpredictable, data-volume based pricing and plan budgets confidently with a clear, consistent OpEx cost model.
Turn data into action
Identify and address performance gaps, security vulnerabilities, resource utilization shortfalls, and misconfigured policies.
Prioritize what matters most
Use anomaly detection, proactive alerting, and expert guidance to sort and plan work effectively.
Deep security intelligence
Improve security posture with dashboards for WAF events, policy violations, and security scoring. Inventory cryptographic assets to determine PQC readiness.
Enhance operations
Share data across teams and use F5 AI Data Fabric to automatically identify and categorize applications and security posture.
Key features
Operational questions, answered
Query data in natural language and generate operational narratives that surface KPIs, anomalies, and next steps
Fleet management workflows
Plan and execute TMOS or F5OS-A upgrades, license instances, and backup/restore them—including HA pairs—before threats and vulnerabilities can impact end users.
Real-time reporting
F5 Insight provides near real-time data to ensure you always know what’s going on with apps and infrastructure. Telemetry data can be forwarded to analytics, SIEM, and APM tools.
Deep operational intelligence
Report cards, alerts, and anomaly detection enable teams to act on performance gaps, security vulnerabilities, resource utilization shortfalls, and misconfigured policies.
Deployable anywhere
Delivered as a self-hosted software, F5 Insight deploys as a qcow image on top of a user’s hypervisor of choice. F5 Insight is portable and natively compatible with BIG-IP.
Maintain line of sight
Meet the needs of global enterprises and highly regulated industries with always-on access to application and infrastructure visibility, HA and DR support, backup and restore functionality, SAML SSO, RBAC, immutable audit trails, and short-term chat history.