Building on our existing BGP monitoring capabilities – Event Tracking, Hijack Detection, Route Leak Detection and RPKI Status Check – we majorly enhanced our BGP monitoring feature set (under Synthetics) with new visualizations that track BGP Reachability and the BGP AS Path.

See the related blog posts, Introducing BGP Monitoring from Kentik and Why You Need to Monitor BGP, or watch the video (webinar) Why you should monitor BGP and where to start for useful overview information.

To get started: click Menu > Synthetics > BGP RouteViewer (we automatically pull in your AS and Prefix info for you) and click the blue  "Start Monitoring" button. 

Or go to Synthetics > Test Control Center > Add Test > BGP Monitor to create your own test

Reachability tracking

We help you track changes in the reachability of your prefixes from hundreds of vantage points all over the internet and will alert you when any of them become unreachable. You need to be sure that traffic from your ASes can make its way to your customers and the service providers you depend on.

AS path change tracking

Frequent changes in the path that BGP route announcements take between ASes can be a sign of instability. Monitoring for these changes and getting alerted as soon as they occur is a key part of ensuring service reliability.

AS path visualization

Fast troubleshooting of issues requires being able to visualize data to find trouble spots quickly. We give you a 10,000-foot view of changes in BGP routes over time — an indispensable tool!