Monitor BGP status on AWS Direct Connect VIFs and track prefix count advertised over Transit VIF
Networking & Content Delivery Blog
This article explains how to monitor BGP status on AWS Direct Connect VIFs and track the prefix count advertised over the Transit VIF.
Specifically, the article covers:
- Monitoring VIF state using Lambda, CloudWatch Logs, and SNS to receive alerts when VIF BGP state changes
- Monitoring prefixes propagated from DXGW attachment to Transit Gateway route table using Lambda, CloudWatch Logs, and SNS to receive alerts when prefix count exceeds a defined threshold
- Implementation steps and validation for both solutions
- Cleanup steps to delete the resources created
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