BGP Monitoring Protocol

The BGP Monitoring Protocol (BMP) provides a convenient interface for obtaining route views. The integration in Horizon lets you use these route views, status updates, and statistics for monitoring and management.

bmp integration overview
Figure 1. BMP integration overview

The following sections provide details about associated parsers, adapters, and listeners.

Distributed BMP processing with Sentinel

You can use Sentinel to process BMP statistics ingested by one or more Minions in order to alleviate load on the core. All of the BMP-related adapters can run on Sentinel, allowing you to generate events and metrics, and ingest route changes. In this mode, events are sent back to the message broker for the core to process and metrics are persisted directly to the time series database.

The BMP Playground provides a virtual lab that you can use to simulate BGP, BMP, and to see how the Horizon components can be configured at runtime.