Last Modified: Apr 28, 2025
Affected Product(s):
BIG-IQ AppIQ
Known Affected Versions:
7.0.0, 7.0.0.1, 7.0.0.2, 7.1.0
Fixed In:
7.1.0.1
Opened: Jan 23, 2020 Severity: 3-Major
BIG-IQ regularly queries the status of virtual servers and pools on BIG-IP devices running iApp, which can cause CPU spikes when the number of servers and pools are high.
CPU usage spikes on managed BIG-IP devices when they reach maximum usage when statistics collection is enabled.
When collecting statistics with iApp on BIG-IP devices that have more than 600 virtual servers and/or 400 pools.
For BIG-IQ version 7.1, see the following article for a workaround: https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K53001642
CPU spikes no longer occur as a result of status queries to BIG-IP devices.