New component: Big-IP Receiver

[StefanKurek]

The purpose and use-cases of the new component

The F5 Big-IP Metric Receiver would pull KPI statistics from F5's iControl REST API (https://clouddocs.f5.com/api/icontrol-rest/). It will focus on the LTM Module for Big-IP and collect throughput, connection, session, and availability metrics for LTM Virtual Servers, Pools, Pool Members, and Nodes.

Targeting version 11.6.5+ (https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K2200#1).

Example configuration for the component

collection_interval: interval to collect metrics (default 10s)
username: required for F5 iControl REST API token
password: required for F5 iControl REST API token
endpoint: endpoint for F5 iControl REST API (default https://localhost:443)
TLS settings based on OTEL HTTPClientSettings

receivers:
    bigip:
      collection_interval: 10s
      username: "bigipuser"
      password: "bigippassword"
      endpoint: https://localhost:443
      tls:
        insecure_skip_verify: true

Telemetry data types supported

Metrics

Testing

The integration test will not spin up a docker container like many of the other receiver integration tests. This is because the F5 Big-IP license makes it prohibitive to set this sort of environment up. So instead, the integration test spins up a mock http server which will playback recorded responses from an actual Big-IP environment.

I have also included a script which will record and save the needed responses for the mock server, so that a future developer will easily be able to modify this integration test while working with their own environment.

[djaglowski]

I'll sponsor this.

[djaglowski]

Closed by #9893