BGP Route Monitoring
Visualize, optimize, and secure BGP routing for better digital experiences.
Keep tabs on routes to and from your network
- Monitor the health of your prefixes from thousands of vantage points.
- Explore deep BGP visibility with end-to-end, dynamic AS path visualizations.
- Track path changes, prefix reachability, and updates for your network.
- See announcement and withdrawal events with a time series of event types by prefix.
Prevent costly performance issues
- Get real-time alerts on critical BGP activity that could affect network traffic, security, and performance.
- Be notified of events that may impact subscribers and customers including path changes, route flaps, reachability issues, unexpected origins, RPKI invalids, route leaks and hijacks, and policy misconfigurations.
Enhance network security
- Use real-time hijack and leak detection to safeguard your network from malicious activities and unauthorized traffic interception.
- Receive alerts for unusual BGP behavior that may indicate a security threat, allowing for rapid response and mitigation.
- Find and diagnose troublespots quicker and resolve BGP issues faster across your network and peering and transit providers.
Optimize routing for better digital experiences
- Confirm peering changes and analyze route changes along with their impact on network performance to optimize routing paths and reduce latency.
- Identify and address sub-optimal routes to enhance overall network efficiency, performance, and cost.
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BGP Route Monitoring FAQs
How can I validate routing consistency across regions and POPs?
Validate routing consistency by comparing AS paths, peers, and prefix reachability across each region/PoP and watching for unexpected divergence. Kentik enriches traffic with BGP routing attributes and provides site-aware routing dimensions and BGP monitoring so you can confirm each location is using the expected routes and peers over time.
What’s the most effective way to verify routing after a change or outage?
Verify routing by monitoring prefix reachability and AS-path changes and correlating them with traffic and performance. Kentik’s BGP monitoring tracks reachability, path changes, and announcement/withdrawal events and helps you correlate routing changes with synthetic tests and real traffic to confirm recovery.
What tools help verify BGP announcements and detect anomalies?
Tools that verify BGP announcements continuously monitor prefix reachability, origin AS behavior, and path changes and alert when routing deviates from expected patterns. Kentik supports this with BGP Route Monitoring from thousands of vantage points, AS-path visualization, and event tracking for announcements and withdrawals so teams can detect anomalies quickly and respond with evidence.
What tools provide visibility into internet routing and performance?
Tools provide routing and performance visibility by tracking AS paths and reachability events and correlating them to traffic and experience signals like latency, loss, and availability. Kentik supports this by combining BGP route visibility with performance context so teams can see what changed, who is impacted, and whether an internet routing event is degrading applications or user experience. See also: Understand Internet Performance.