Job, I appreciate the effort and the intent behind this project, but why should the community contribute to an open source project on GitHub that is mainly powered by a closed source binary?
Ryan On Wed, Aug 14, 2019, 10:55 AM Job Snijders <j...@ntt.net> wrote: > Dear NANOG, > > Recently NTT investigated how to best monitor the visibility of our own > and our subsidiaries’ IP resources in the BGP Default-Free Zone. We were > specifically looking how to get near real-time alerts funneled into an > actionable pipeline for our NOC & Operations department when BGP hijacks > happen. > > Previously we relied on a commercial “BGP Monitoring as a Service” > offering, but with the advent of RIPE NCC’s “RIS Live” streaming API [1] we > saw greater potential for a self-hosted approach designed specifically for > custom integrations with various business processes. We decided to write > our own tool “BGPalerter” and share the source code with the Internet > community. > > BGPalerter allows operators to specify in great detail how to distribute > meaningful information from the firehose from various BGP data sources (we > call them “connectors”), through data processors (called “monitors”), > finally outputted through “reports” into whatever mechanism is appropriate > (Slack, IRC, email, or a call to your ticketing system’s API). > > The source code is available on Github, under a liberal open source > license to foster community collaboration: > > https://github.com/nttgin/BGPalerter > > If you wish to contribute to the project, please use Github’s “issues” or > “pull request” features. Any help is welcome! We’d love suggestions for new > features, updates to the documentation, help with setting up a CI > regression testing pipeline, or packaging for common platforms. > > Kind regards, > > Job & Massimo > NTT Ltd > > [1]: https://ris-live.ripe.net/ >