> On 15 Dec 2013, at 14:45, Gavin Henry <[email protected]> wrote: > > So we're monitoring everything possible inside our network but > wondered what others do to check routes that come in to your network > via transit for latency/pl etc.? With the mixture of transit and > public peering, even on our startup network, it's something to think > about the best way. Also, how far out do you monitor? Just to your BGP > peers or some known point after that? It's not good just pinging some > public service as I'm sure they won't like it. I hear Pingdom and > others but not sure.
Pingdom in use here. We monitor some key nodes that run BGP with it, and some other bits and pieces within our hosted services. We're thinking about using some VPS boxes around the globe to perhaps obtain different insights into how we appear to the rest of the world. David.
