Imagine it is 7:00 pm on a Thursday. Your customers are home, finishing dinner, and ready to stream their favorite Netflix series. Your network is enabling it, and with redundancy designs in place, it should be an easy night. Then, one of the aggregation routers in Chicago fails. Capacity-wise, your other router can handle all traffic, and BGP sessions are still up — yet the phone rings. Customers complain they can’t access Netflix. Traffic has dropped. This scenario shows why network health and routing analytics are critical: even when everything appears normal, hidden routing or state inconsistencies can disrupt service.
The Hidden Challenges of Network Redundancy
Redundancy isn’t just about hardware or paths. It’s also about network state: the configurations, routing data, and behaviors that ensure redundant paths actually work when needed.
Without network health and routing analytics, operations engineers are forced to react to issues instead of proactively detecting conditions that can lead to service impact.
Proactive Network Health and Routing Analytics with Selector
At Selector, we focus on making an operations engineer’s life easier — not just helping you find the needle in the haystack, but preventing you from ever having to search for it.
With Selector Analytics’ Network Health and Routing Analytics package, network operations engineers can:
- Track reachability to critical locations and services
- Detect latency or jitter issues to critical destinations
- Monitor path changes and hop counts
- Identify anomalies in BGP state toward critical services
- Ensure consistency across redundant sites and resources
By deploying synthetic testing agents across your infrastructure — on-premises, in the public cloud, or embedded in routers and switches — Selector Analytics can:
- Proactively verify connectivity
- Detect anomalies using ML-based anomaly detection
- Identify connectivity issues before they affect service
This is the core value of network health and routing analytics: turning reactive firefighting into proactive prevention.
Enhancing Visibility with Routing Analytics
Beyond health monitoring, Selector Analytics can ingest and analyze routing data using BMP (BGP Monitoring Protocol).
- Proactively detect routing consistency anomalies
- Enable policies to track the state of critical services
- Correlate BGP anomalies with telemetry and events
Routing analytics also supports forensic analysis, allowing you to go back in time to:
- See when a problem started
- Review changes in routing state
- Correlate routing changes with network telemetry
This capability accelerates troubleshooting, reduces MTTR, and strengthens proactive operations.
Improving Network KPIs with Proactive Analytics
Networking and IT operations will always balance prevention and reaction.
Traditional KPIs like MTTD (Mean Time to Detect) and MTTR (Mean Time to Repair) focus on reactive response. But network health and routing analytics from Selector also improve MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures) by:
- Preventing failures before they occur
- Increasing customer satisfaction
- Reducing churn from avoidable outages