Http command, bigpipe

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A command available on some F5 Networks BigIP platforms; used to display or clear HTTP, FastHTTP and compression statistics.

Usage Syntax

bigpipe http stats

bigpipe http stats reset

Bigpipe Usage Notes

Don't forget to save your changes using the bigpipe save all command.

Note in most cases, the show keyword displays object status or statistics, the list keyword displays configuration.

The bigpipe command can be abbreviated to just b (e.g. b help instead of bigpipe help.) Alternatively, (from v9.4,) you can use the bigpipe shell to enter commands without prefixing them with bigpipe.

Where curly or normal brackets {} or () or quotes "" or exclamation mark ! are required as part of a command and you are not using the bigpipe shell, they must be proceeded with a back slash \ to prevent the bash shell from parsing them as system commands.

Related Commands

The tmmstat compress command displays more detailed, real time compression statistics.

Typical Output

Null compression bytes are bytes not compressed due to license limitations. If you have a 5Mb data compression license and 10Mb client side traffic, only 5Mb of the client side traffic will be compressed, 5Mb will not be and will show in the null compression figure. As of v9.2, exceeding your compression license limit will result in an error message (only one per 24hrs) in the LTM log file as follows: "Compression license limit of xxx Mbit/s exceeded today" and an SNMP trap (if configured) using OID: .1.3.6.1.4.1.3375.2.4.0.35.

Note: The compression graph shown in the GUI displays the pre-compression figure; the size of data that is compressed, not the size of data after compression.

HTTP STATISTICS --
   requests (total, max, GET, POST) = (328098, 192, 318821, 9277)
   requests (v0.9, v1.0, v1.1) = (0, 2453, 325645)
   responses (v0.9, v1.0, v1.1) = (0, 0, 328013)
   responses (2xx, 3xx, 4xx, 5xx) = (323448, 154, 4411, 0)
   response size (   <1k,   1-4k,  4-16k, 16-32k, 32-64k)
                 (105307,  89667,  35668,  27872,  69499)
   Set-Cookie header insertions = 0

COMPRESSION STATISTICS --
   total bytes (pre, post, null, saved) = (512.7M, 116.7M, 0, 77.23%)
   HTML bytes (pre, post, saved) = (84.65M, 17.77M, 79.00%)
   CSS bytes (pre, post, saved) = (78.49M, 15.19M, 80.64%)
   JS bytes (pre, post, saved) = (340.7M, 81.85M, 75.98%)
   XML bytes (pre, post, saved) = (15093, 2490, 83.50%)
   SGML bytes (pre, post, saved) = (0, 0, 0.00%)
   plain text bytes (pre, post, saved) = (0, 0, 0.00%)
   image bytes (pre, post, saved) = (0, 0, 0.00%)
   video bytes (pre, post, saved) = (0, 0, 0.00%)
   audio bytes (pre, post, saved) = (0, 0, 0.00%)
   octet bytes (pre, post, saved) = (0, 0, 0.00%)
   other bytes (pre, post, saved) = (8.785M, 1.917M, 78.17%)

FAST HTTP STATISTICS --
   requests (total, GET, POST) = (0, 0, 0)
   requests (v0.9, v1.0, v1.1, pipe) = (0, 0, 0, 0)
   responses (2xx, 3xx, 4xx, 5xx) = (0, 0, 0, 0)
   conn pool (curr, max, reuse, exh) = (0, 0, 0, 0)
   client (acc, syn, bad rx) = (0, 0, 0)
   server (conn, bad rx) = (0, 0)
   parse err (req, resp) = (0, 0)   unbuff req = 0

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