BGP Route Monitoring to and from Your Network

The Internet includes tens of thousands of autonomously operated networks (Autonomous Systems). Human error and malicious exploits on Internet routing can cause chronic interruptions and sudden outages that impact application and service delivery. Internet routing signals are also commonly used to trigger on demand DDoS mitigation services when under attack. Monitoring Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), the routing protocol that stitches the Internet together, is important to ensuring a highly available network service.

ThousandEyes monitors BGP network routes from both corporate and service provider networks, enabling you to track BGP changes and understand reachability and performance between your Autonomous System (AS) and those of your customers and application providers. BGP route monitoring and visualization from major Internet exchanges and your own corporate network make it easy to see peering changes, route flapping, leaks, hijacks and DDoS mitigation.

Private BGP routing monitors can also be used to discover routes from your enterprise network to prefixes that you originate or external applications and services. IP addresses and URLs are automatically matched to all associated prefixes, simplifying analysis.

With ThousandEyes, you can:

• Perform route monitoring using key BGP metrics such as reachability and path changes.
• Diagnose route flaps, policy misconfigurations and peering issues that occur in your network or in one of your upstream providers.
• Detect route hijacks and see routing changes associated with DDoS mitigation.
• Correlate routing data with application delivery and underlying network paths, including hop-by-hop metrics such as packet loss and latency.