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Path Investigation

Understand How Network Paths Are Changing

RouteMon provides network path analysis, BGP path monitoring and AS path visibility to help network teams understand path changes affecting connectivity and service performance. Investigate how routes move across the network and identify path behaviour that requires attention.

Network Path Analysis • BGP Path Monitoring • AS Path Monitoring • Routing Path Changes
The operational problem

A healthy session does not always meana healthy path

Connectivity may remain available while the route used to reach a destination changes significantly.

A path change can affect latency, traffic distribution, reachability, service performance and upstream connectivity.

RouteMon helps teams investigate these changes with greater path visibility.

Conditions RouteMon watchesMonitoring
  • 01Latency changes
  • 02Traffic redistribution
  • 03Reachability changes
  • 04Service-performance changes
  • 05Upstream changes
Observed path evidence

BGP, AS-pathand reachability context

Understand how routes change across network paths and whether connectivity conditions changed with them.

  • Evidence 01

    BGP path changes

    Changing paths and transitions across monitored routes.

  • Evidence 02

    Alternate routes

    Alternate routing paths associated with changing connectivity.

  • Evidence 03

    Prefix and peer context

    Prefix-specific and peer-specific path behaviour.

  • Evidence 04

    AS-path context

    Path-length changes, upstream changes and unexpected AS transitions.

  • Evidence 05

    Reachability context

    Reachability conditions associated with a path change.

Path Investigation workflow

Compare the routebehind the connection

Combine path monitoring, AS-path analysis and reachability evidence during connectivity investigation.

  1. 01Step

    Identify the destination

    Focus on the prefix or service whose connectivity changed.

  2. 02Step

    Compare BGP paths

    Review path transitions and alternate route usage.

  3. 03Step

    Analyze the AS path

    Check path length, upstream changes and unexpected AS transitions.

  4. 04Step

    Review reachability

    Determine whether the path change coincided with changed connectivity conditions.

Expected operational value

Why PathInvestigation matters

  • Understand where routing changed
  • Investigate performance degradation
  • Analyze alternate path usage
  • Improve BGP troubleshooting
  • Identify path-related connectivity issues
RouteMon / Next step

Investigate network paths withgreater visibility.

See how RouteMon combines network path analysis, BGP path monitoring and AS-path visibility to accelerate routing and connectivity investigations.