Telemetry Configuration Guide for Cisco 8000 Series Routers, IOS XR Releases

Telemetry Configuration Guide for Cisco 8000 Series Routers, IOS XR Releases

About this content

Use this guide to configure model-driven telemetry on Cisco 8000 Series Routers running Cisco IOS XR software, including telemetry sessions, YANG data models, and streaming telemetry enhancements.


Getting Started

This cumulative guide provides a single, continuously updated version of telemetry configuration information for Cisco 8000 Series Routers. It simplifies navigation by letting you use one book for the latest supported Cisco IOS XR releases instead of moving between release-specific versions.

Specific changes or updates tied to individual releases are called out within the relevant sections. For a list of features introduced in a specific release, refer to the Release Notes or the IOS XR Feature Finder.

The table lists the release numbers for which this document has been updated since its initial publication.

Table 1. Changes to this document
Release Summary

Release 7.3.1

First published for Release 7.3.1.

YANG data models for telemetry features

Describes YANG data models used to configure and collect model-driven telemetry data.

Scale up your network monitoring strategy using telemetry

Introduces model-driven telemetry concepts, benefits, components, transport options, and session modes.

Establish a Model-Driven Telemetry Session from a Router to a Collector

Covers dial-out telemetry sessions where the router streams telemetry data to a configured collector.

Model-driven telemetry sessions

Covers dial-in telemetry sessions where a collector connects to the router to subscribe to telemetry data.

Enhancements to streaming telemetry

Covers enhancements to streaming telemetry, including gNMI, statistics, timestamps, and platform-specific telemetry features.