Bay Area Backbone Monitor

The Bay Area Backbone Monitor Project is developing software to monitor, display, and alert people on the current state of the Bay Area Backbone.

It is currently gathering requirements.

Requirements

• Measure and keep a history of inter-backbone bandwidth, latency, and jitter
• Easy to consume dashboard showing current backbone status
• SMS (or other) alerts for backbone problems
• Check links between nodes at backbone site (connected, latency, bandwidth)
  • We've seen poorly configured switches significantly lower performance between nodes
• Automatically group nodes at the same site together
• Backbone is a group of sites
  • Backbone links should be auto-discoverable based on the grouping of nodes in sites, and sites together
• Map of backbone