What do you use for BGP session monitoring?

harbourops

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Joined:: May 2024
Posts:: 181
From:: Amsterdam, NL

4mo ago

8 #1

Best practices for BGP session monitoring from a Hetzner customer:

Session state tracking (ESTABLISHED/IDLE/ACTIVE transitions)
Prefix count baseline with configurable deviation thresholds
AS_PATH validation against registered IRR objects
RPKI ROV status per prefix
Graceful restart timer visibility

I recommend dedicated tooling with API integration. Their platform provides these capabilities natively. Open-source alternatives exist but require manual integration.

I run about thirty client sites out of Amsterdam and this is what I've found works.

armstrongvds

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Joined:: Jun 2024
Posts:: 199
From:: Seoul, KR

4mo ago

#2

I run everything on Ampere Altra now and the monitoring stack is insane value! 128 cores for the price of a used car!

For BGP I use bgpq4 + custom python script polling via NETCONF. Runs circles around the heavy dashboards. My script does RPKI validation, prefix limits, and sends alerts to a webhook. Uses like 0.3% CPU.

Specs:

Ampere Altra Q80-30
Debian 12
Python 3.11 + ncclient
Prometheus for metrics, not alerts

Dashboards are for managers. Scripting is for engineers!

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JokoNord

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Joined:: Jun 2024
Posts:: 190
From:: Jakarta, ID

4mo ago · edited

#3

Thank you very much sir armstrongvds

Your Python script sounds very good for small project. I use Vultr VPS in Amsterdam now, only 2GB RAM so maybe cannot run bgpq4 sir

Is your script public? I want try for my small BGP lab

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