Guidelines for Streaming Telemetry Data Over UDP

This section describes guidelines for streaming telemetry data over a UDP connection.

Streaming Telemetry Data over UDP is based on the dial-out mechanism. The sensor paths are configured through the CLI, and the device sends the data for the configured sensor paths over UDP to the destination address of the collector. The destination address is configured through the CLI. While streaming telemetry over UDP from native sensors the device sends data to the collector over UDP in the protobuf format. For protobuf format information, see Native Protocol Buffers (protobuf) Message Structure.

Use the CLI configuration procedure to stream telemetry data over UDP. Configure a sensor profile. This sensor profile includes resource parameters. Configure a streaming server profile, which includes the remote address and remote-port parameters. Then configure an export profile, which includes transport protocol, reporting rate, format, and payload-size parameters. To configure a streaming UDP connection, see Establish a Dial-out Telemetry Connection.

To decode telemetry data at the collector, see Decoding Junos Telemetry Interface Data With UNIX Utilities.