What Is BGP Visibility, Really?

As the routing protocol that runs the Internet, BGP is a key piece of this puzzle that helps you understand how your customers get to you, which means that BGP visibility is very important if you intend to have operational insights for any business-critical app or service that you are either offering or consuming over the Internet. Integrated BGP route monitoring means directly pulling collected global routing tables and updates on a frequent basis and integrating BGP prefix monitoring, reachability information and visualization of ASes, AS paths, path lengths, etc. with other aspects of digital experience monitoring (DEM) so that it delivers contextually useful insights in real-time for app and service operations visibility. ThousandEyes has offered BGP monitoring and visualization for years, and has even pushed beyond routing to deliver collective intelligence-based Internet traffic outage insights and alerts.

Source: blog.thousandeyes.com