BGP Incidents Monitoring
Qrator.Radar is a BGP monitoring service designed to detect network anomalies that can significantly affect availability and quality of services at the global routing level. Being the world’s largest real-time routing data collector Qrator.Radar accumulates and analyzes data from over 900 BGP sessions, including those of the largest global Internet providers.
How Qrator.Radar Works
Bad routing
Once a network incident happens, it starts affecting a customer’s business causing connectivity problems and frustrating delays in response times. External issues are challenging to debug once inside a customer’s network so it takes time for network engineers to find BGP trouble spots. All this results in the company sustaining losses as routing changes affect its network performance.
Detecting
Qrator.Radar detects a problem based on routing data collected from over 800 BGP sessions with global ISPs and processed by unique mathematical algorithms.
Reporting
Qrator.Radar makes a detailed description of the issue, determines its reason and the culprit, and alerts a customer within a minute by email/syslog/API/etc.
Repairing
It takes less time to fix the problem as its reason is already clear for the network engineers. Qrator.Radar ensures better network performance and reliability of the customer’s service.
One of the
biggest BGP
collectors in the world
It is almost impossible to detect network incidents from inside a customer's network. Usually, ISPs monitor only their traffic and cannot observe the routes between other ISPs globally. For these purposes of global traffic monitoring and anomaly detection, one needs a specialized tool that works at a level of interdomain routing. Qrator.Radar is one of the largest BGP collectors in the world (counting the number of sessions and routing tables). Hundreds of ISPs worldwide provide Qrator Labs with data on all the available within routing tables networks.
Qrator Labs' in-house developed algorithms process received information and search any anomalies that could lead to the incidents. The essential part of this is supported by a mathematical model defining the relationship between autonomous systems. Qrator.Radar detects thousands of routing incidents globally every day. Information regarding the events connected to an anomalous change in the routing data is available to the customer in real-time. We usually use syslog, email, and the API to deliver notifications and integrate with customer services, other options ere also possible. Opportunity to get notices on BGP anomalies in real time allows immediate reaction on the incident, mitigating possible adverse outcomes for business and ensuring better networking overall.
Possibilities
With the help of Qrator.Radar it is possible to monitor changes in the connectivity and security incidents for both ingress and egress traffic, such as:
Route Leaks
Redirection or concentration of traffic within an intermediary network that should, under normal circumstances, be present in the route. Smaller operators could incidentally redirect onto themselves traffic flows from the backbone networks or entire continents. Consequences of a route leak include increased latency, traffic loss and substantial degradation of connection quality. As a result of such leak both transit operators and service end-users suffer.
Hijacks
Illegitimate network prefixes announcement into BGP, allowing to hijack the traffic. Malfunctor, with the help of phishing sites, could attain the traffic of a target, analyze it and search for passwords, financial and personal data.
Bogons
Announcement of prefixes and autonomous system numbers into BGP reserved for other purposes and not supposed to be in the routing tables. Such an event outcome varies from the local network becoming available to an outside user to the entire network's unavailability.
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