Capacity Planning: Telemetry Collector & Sensor Collector for IOS XE and IOS XR device telemetry

A data ingestion pipeline is comprised of one or more Telemetry Collectors paired with a Sensor Collector.

The maximum throughput of a single Telemetry Collector and Sensor Collector pipeline is outlined in the table below:

One minute data collection

A single Sensor Collector can handle up to 120,000 objects per minute. Since Telemetry Collector can only handle 60,000 objects/minute, you can use multiple telemetry collectors connected to a single sensor collector to fully utilize the capacity of 120,000 objects.

How many objects is my device producing?

You can find out how many objects are being generated by an IOS XR or IOS XE device by using the Telemetry Collector in license and object estimation tool.

Compute requirements for out-of-the-box offering

Note: Any additional software running on the virtual machine(s) that house the Telemetry Collector and Sensor Collector will require additional processor and memory resources; the compute requirement specifications above are only for the data ingestion pipeline components.

Solution Engineers can decide whether to deploy the Sensor Collector and Telemetry Collector on a single virtual machine or, as an alternative, they can each be deployed on separate machines that have one-to-one pairing.

The tables below list the default, out-of-the-box telemetry objects for IOS-XE and IOS-XR, including the number of metrics for each object.

IOS XR Default Objects:

IOS XE Default Objects: