BGP Easy Onboarding

BGP Easy Onboarding automates the setup of BGP monitoring and alerting. It reduces manual effort by discovering prefixes and applying best-practice alerts based on your Autonomous System (AS) number.

How it works

BGP Easy Onboarding simplifies BGP monitoring by starting with a single input: an Autonomous System (AS) number. ThousandEyes uses BGP, Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI), and Internet Routing Registry (IRR) data sources to automatically identify associated prefixes. Then, it assigns a tailored subset of alerts to your selected prefixes allowing for immediate routing visibility.

You can review and customize the prefixes and alert types before deploying your configuration. This eliminates the need for manual prefix configuration and gives you fast and accurate monitoring.

Steps

1. Navigate to Routing > Test Settings.

2. Click Start Monitoring.

3. Select Monitor multiple prefixes for an Autonomous System (AS).

4. Enter an Autonomous System (AS) number. Click Next.

   Use your own AS number or the AS number belonging to a critical partner or provider.

5. Review and confirm the prefixes you want to monitor. Click Next.

   ThousandEyes discovers all prefixes associated with the AS number you entered. Discovered prefixes appear under Discovered prefixes. Already monitored prefixes appear under Currently monitored.

   You can select up to 500 prefixes to monitor.

   • If more than 500 prefixes are found, you can manually select up to 500.

   • You can use the search bar to filter the list. If the filtered result contains 500 or fewer prefixes, you can select the box next to Prefix to select all.

   
6. Review and confirm alerts.

   ThousandEyes assigns alerts to your prefixes based on best practices.

   1. Choose your preferred notification method: integration and/or email.

      • To use an integration, click the Send to integration dropdown and select one or more options.

      • To use email, click the Send to email dropdown and select one or more recipient email addresses.

   2. Confirm the alerts assigned based on your prefixes.

      ThousandEyes automatically assigns 3 alerts. To deselect an alert, click the alert.

      The three alerts are:

      • Origin Hijack: Another AS is announcing the prefix of interest.

      • RPKI Validity: A prefix announcement fails RPKI validation. For more details, see How RPKI Validation Works.

      • Origin Reachability: Fewer than 80% of available monitors have a path to the prefix of interest.

   3. Click Next.

   
7. Review and deploy your routing data.

   1. Confirm the number of prefixes you want to monitor. To edit your selected prefixes, click Manage prefixes.

   2. Confirm the number of prefixes you want to monitor. To edit your selected prefixes, click Manage prefixes.

   3. Click Deploy.

8. Refresh your Setting up monitoring for your prefixes page to confirm successful setup.

   The page updates to confirm successful setup.

1. (Optional) Navigate to Routing > Test Settings to view your prefixes.

   Your prefixes are labeled with your AS number and the date it is set up. These labels help you identify which prefixes were added through Easy Onboarding. You can also use them to review the automated tests and alerts created during the onboarding process.