Real-time BGP Monitoring

Innovation Overview

Our BGP monitoring and alerts have been upgraded to offer 1-minute granularity and near real-time reporting, allowing quick detection and response to BGP events and traffic changes.

Feature Highlights:

• 1-minute Granularity: All BGP tests have shifted from 15-minute intervals to 1-minute intervals 

• Near Real-time Alerting: All BGP alert rules adopt a time-based condition instead of a round-based condition. Customers can customize their rule to be triggered by a 1-minute event.  

• Actionable Default Alert Rule: Alerts will activate when 10% of monitors have less than 100% Reachability for at least 1 minute.

Customer Benefits:

• Enhanced Customer Insight: Gain faster global routing insights, fostering deeper engagement and better product value.

• Immediate Feedback: Receive near-instant feedback on traffic engineering changes.

• Proactive Network Management: Ensure network administrators can quickly detect and respond to BGP events and monitor the effects of their actions.

Here are the quick steps to configure the BGP alert rule and an example of troubleshooting from a BGP alert:

1. Go to Alert > Alert Rules > BGP Routings

2. Add New Alert Rule

3. Select Tests, Prefix length, Monitors, and Severity 

4. Under Alert conditions, select the count of % monitors and violation occurrence

5. If multiple monitors are used, specify if they need to be the same monitor or any

6. Add the alert conditions from the BGP test data

7. If multiple conditions are used, specify Any or All condition

8. Click “Create New Alert Rule”

9. Any new BGP alert will appear under Alert List

10. Click any alert opens the alert details window listing the start/end metrics

11. Use cross-link to BGP test views for troubleshooting