Arista EOS telemetry

Arista EOS switches support industry standard sFlow telemetry, enabling hardware instrumentation supported by merchant silicon to export hardware interface counters and flow data. The latest release of the open source Host sFlow agent has been ported to EOS, augmenting the telemetry with standard host CPU, memory, and disk IO metrics.

Linux as a Switch Operating System: Five Lessons Learned identifies benefits of using Linux as the basis for EOS. In this context, the Linux operating system made it easy to port the Host sFlow agent, use standard Linux package management (RPM Package Manager), and gather metrics using standard Linux APIs. A new eAPI module automatically synchronizes the Host sFlow daemon with the EOS sFlow configuration.

The following sflowtool output shows the additional metrics contributed by a Host sFlow agent installed on an Arista switch:
startDatagram =================================
datagramSourceIP 172.17.0.1
datagramSize 704
unixSecondsUTC 1490843418
datagramVersion 5
agentSubId 100000
agent 10.0.0.90
packetSequenceNo 714
sysUpTime 0
samplesInPacket 1
startSample ----------------------
sampleType_tag 0:2
sampleType COUNTERSSAMPLE
sampleSequenceNo 714
sourceId 2:1
counterBlock_tag 0:2001
counterBlock_tag 0:2010
udpInDatagrams 1459
udpNoPorts 16
udpInErrors 0
udpOutDatagrams 4765
udpRcvbufErrors 0
udpSndbufErrors 0
udpInCsumErrors 0
counterBlock_tag 0:2009
tcpRtoAlgorithm 1
tcpRtoMin 200
tcpRtoMax 120000
tcpMaxConn 4294967295
tcpActiveOpens 102
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