Generating 1:1 ipfix from 10g pipeline - Getting the data - Part 1

Goal : generate lossles ipfix flow's from distributed pipe to monitor application or network performance, identify bootlenecks and generate alerts if possible.

Why this way ? : It was expensive to do it with proprietary solutions. Plus we needed to have a flexible, open source option to work on. The closest solution cost was $1M

Challenges ;

Plan :

What happened along the way;

Current status

We have a working setup, using this version of intel module

With this version of firmware


You can find some performance outputs as shown below

Server's status

Current traffic rate

Current io rate

Disk config

What's Next:

Well, we started to deep dive into traffic and analyze, create widgets and all the necessary stuff to have a Management dashboard. We saw some interesting stuff too which will need a lot of troubleshooting and investigation.


Revision #9
Created 16 November 2022 15:27:33 by Mesut Bayrak
Updated 17 November 2022 16:50:33 by Mesut Bayrak