Drag components onto the canvas. Or load a pre-drawn architecture ↑

Drop components into a Data Center / Kubernetes / cloud zone to group them

Wire nodes (drag from the right ●), then press ▶ Play traffic. On balancers, toggle A/A ↔ A/S.

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Scenario

Step 1

Flowscape

Watch traffic move through F5 in real time. Attacks blocked, bots sorted, load balanced, failover live. Pick a scenario below and press ▶.

F5 employees: sign in (top right) to clone any scenario, build your own architecture, and share a read-only link with customers.

Organize scenarios

Drag any scenario (built-in or published) into the category where it belongs. The change is live in the gallery immediately. Hover a built-in and click × to hide it for all users; hidden built-ins collect in their own column with a Restore button.

Analytics

Trends, engagement, and feature usage across Flowscape.

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API keys

Keys let your tools and agents build & push diagrams into Flowscape over the API. SSO is for people; automation uses keys.

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Teams

Teams own drawings together: every member opens the same drawing and saves it in place. Anyone can create a team; team admins add people and set roles.

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Every link you've shared — who it went to, whether they've opened it, and when.

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API activity

Every API call — who or what, the action, and whether it was allowed — including denials.

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What's new

Everything we've added to Flowscape, newest first.

How to use Flowscape

Everything an F5 builder needs. From first drag to sharing with a customer.

Build

Drag, drop, arrange

Drag any component from the left palette onto the canvas. ZONE items. Data Center, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, OT/Plant. Are containers: drop components inside and they move with the zone (drag the zone's corner handle to resize). Double-click any node or zone to rename it. Hover a node and click × (or select it and press Delete) to remove it.

Connect

Draw traffic paths

Both ● ports connect: drag from the right ● to choose where this node's traffic goes (downstream), or from the left ● to choose where its traffic comes from (upstream). Drop anywhere on the other node either way — the hit area around each port is bigger than the dot, so aim loosely. To remove a connection, click it. An × appears at its midpoint (Delete works too).

Traffic

Play. And watch what gets blocked

Press Play traffic and packets flow from every entry node. Blue is legitimate traffic; red attacks die at the XC WAF, Advanced WAF, or APM; magenta prompt injection passes WAFs and dies only at AI Guardrails; orange AI Red Team probes are mostly caught. The ones that reach the model count as findings. The counters top-left tally delivered, blocked, and findings.

Load balancing

A/A, A/S, and failover

Nodes marked LB (BIG-IP, BIG-IP DNS, XC LB, NGINX, AI Gateway) carry a pill above them: A/A round-robins across every downstream path; click it to switch to A/S where one path is active and the rest go dashed standby. In A/S, the ⚡ button fails over live. Mid-animation is the best time.

Clone & save

Make any scenario yours

Load a scenario, tweak it for your customer, then Save drawing. It lands in "My drawings" in the scenario menu, private to you. Saving with the same title updates it in place. Build from a blank canvas the same way.

Read-only links for customers

Share copies a link to a read-only, animated view of the current canvas. No sign-in needed to watch, and the layout can't be edited. Links are revocable server-side, so a link that shouldn't circulate can be shut off.

Admin

Publish, people, and numbers

Admins additionally get Publish scenario (puts the current canvas + narration in the public gallery. Including promoting a builder's drawing), Users (grant or remove admin for @f5.com users; pinned admins are set in server config), and Stats (which scenarios visitors watch most, share activity, visit counts).

Tips

Small things that help

Dark mode: the sun/moon toggle; signed-in users' choice is remembered. On a phone, the palette lives behind the Components button. The legend (top right) collapses when clicked. The version chip under the Flowscape name tells you exactly which build you're on.

Keyboard

Shortcuts

Design rules

The canvas enforces real F5 architecture

Flowscape framework

The living reference for the Flowscape diagram framework — generated from this build itself, so it always matches what you're running.

Content library

Every published scenario and every user's drawings. With view counts and last-viewed so stale content is easy to spot. Promote any drawing to publish it for all visitors.

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Users

Grant or remove admin for @f5.com users. Pinned admins are set in server configuration and can't be changed here.

Integrations

Connect the services Flowscape uses. Settings are stored encrypted in the app’s database and take effect on every replica right away — no environment variables, no redeploy.