Re: new BGP hijack & visibility tool “BGPalerter”

[Ryan Hamel <ryan () rkhtech org>]

Job,

I appreciate the effort and the intent behind this project, but why should
the community contribute to an open source project on GitHub that is mainly
powered by a closed source binary?

Ryan

On Wed, Aug 14, 2019, 10:55 AM Job Snijders <job () ntt net> wrote:

> Dear NANOG,
>
> Recently NTT investigated how to best monitor the visibility of our own
> and our subsidiaries’ IP resources in the BGP Default-Free Zone. We were
> specifically looking how to get near real-time alerts funneled into an
> actionable pipeline for our NOC & Operations department when BGP hijacks
> happen.
>
> Previously we relied on a commercial “BGP Monitoring as a Service”
> offering, but with the advent of RIPE NCC’s “RIS Live” streaming API [1] we
> saw greater potential for a self-hosted approach designed specifically for
> custom integrations with various business processes. We decided to write
> our own tool “BGPalerter” and share the source code with the Internet
> community.
>
> BGPalerter allows operators to specify in great detail how to distribute
> meaningful information from the firehose from various BGP data sources (we
> call them “connectors”), through data processors (called “monitors”),
> finally outputted through “reports” into whatever mechanism is appropriate
> (Slack, IRC, email, or a call to your ticketing system’s API).
>
> The source code is available on Github, under a liberal open source
> license to foster community collaboration:
>
>     https://github.com/nttgin/BGPalerter
>
> If you wish to contribute to the project, please use Github’s “issues” or
> “pull request” features. Any help is welcome! We’d love suggestions for new
> features, updates to the documentation, help with setting up a CI
> regression testing pipeline, or packaging for common platforms.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Job & Massimo
> NTT Ltd
>
> [1]: https://ris-live.ripe.net/