Streaming Telemetry Sources

About Streaming Telemetry

The streaming telemetry feature of Cisco Nexus switches continuously streams data out of the network and notifies the client, providing near-real-time access to monitoring data.

Guidelines and Limitations

Following are the guideline and limitations for streaming telemetry:

  • The telemetry feature is available in Cisco Nexus switches.

  • Switches with less than 8 GB of memory do not support telemetry.

Data Available for Telemetry

For each component group, the distinguished names (DNs) in the appendix of the NX-API DME Model Reference can provide the listed properties as data for telemetry.