Feature request: GTM metrics enrichment

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Research direction

Start by tracing the existing GTM observability collection around the BIG-IP endpoints for wideip/a/stats and gtm/pool/a/.../members/stats. Compare the current GTM metrics with the requested WideIP and pool metrics, then identify how availability, query volume, and member hit counts are represented. Done means the requested metrics are exposed consistently with existing LTM metrics and covered by the project's relevant checks.

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Description

Hey guys, I've been exploring the AST for LTM, APM and GTM observability.
The LTM seems pretty good and it has almost everything needed for full monitoring. The GTM support however seems to be very light at this moment in time. I believe a few metrics would make a big difference for it:

WideIP

  • f5_gtm_wideip_queries: Statistics per WideIP of query volume would be great - qps ideally, but even a plain total_queries counter would be good.
  • f5_gtm_wideip_availability - WideIP availability (e.g. available, offline, etc).

Those metrics can be fetched from:

Pools

  • f5_gtm_pool_member_hit_count - basically how often each member gets handed out relative to the others (member 1 returned 100 times, member 2 returned 1000 times, that kind of thing).
  • f5_gtm_pool_member_availability - This is already there for LTM pool members and it's one of the most important metrics for actually monitoring of the service.
  • f5_gtm_pool_availability - Overall pool status (e.g. available, offline, etc).

Those metrics can be fetched from:

Happy to provide more details if useful.

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