Cisco Crosswork Cloud Network Insights Data Sheet
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The Cisco Crosswork Cloud Network Insights™ SaaS solution addresses routing event security with global monitoring, analysis and insights across a infrastructure.
Your network can be a complex and often unpredictable environment. Routing events that are caused by automated systems, malicious attacks, or simple operational errors can have unforeseen effects on services. Network operators, be it enterprise or service provider, need a scalable and insightful toolset to help them identify and resolve network issues swiftly.
While the operational performance data provided by networks is plentiful, the existing toolsets lack an understanding of the network control state. Routing protocol event information can be difficult to comprehend when not organized, analyzed, and displayed logically.
By leveraging Cisco’s unparalleled expertise with routing protocols, Crosswork Cloud Network Insights can help you structure the information you need to quickly identify and resolve issues throughout the network.
Cisco Crosswork Cloud Network Insights is a revolutionary cloud-based platform for presenting real-time network routing, event, and traffic information. A successor of BGPMon.net for vendor independent networks, it uses IETF standards-based routing control protocols in combination with a cloud-native architecture to capture the state of your network’s control plane.
Through rich analysis, visualization, and alerting on actionable network events, Crosswork Cloud Network Insights that helps you assess the routing health of your network, providing information to determine stability and potential risks to your IP routing assets.
Crosswork Cloud Network Insights aggregates global and local routing information and identifies the source of anomalies based on a consensus of the routing databases Crosswork Cloud Network Insights provides a secure and low-risk method of collecting route information at a global scale, tracking hundreds of thousands of IP route update records, while maintaining event history.
Subscribers can track live and historical activity of their own global BGP and IP information. They can also quickly and easily investigate other entities that might be the cause of issues based on the information provided by the solution.
The timeline to know when a routing event has impacted your network.
The timeline to know when network events have impacted your network
Network Insights collects network data through a secure, federated collection model and provides routing data analytics to significantly reduce Mean Time to Know (MTTK). Network operators can achieve the following benefits:
● Real-time and historical visualizations of global BGP route events
● Looking Glass plus Alarms and notifications
● ASN and prefix registration and geographic position
Network Insights also provides several viewing dashboards, including but not limited to AS and Prefix health, Perring (local and remote) analytics, RPKI and DNS monitoring.
● Communicate and alert on issues using new collaboration media platforms and legacy methods such as email.
● Manage large-scale service provider data sets.
● Track millions of IP prefix updates in real time while maintaining their historical state information.
Crosswork Cloud Network Insights use cases
Routing event awareness and management
● Real-time continuous monitoring of routing event workflow
◦ Independent out-of-band monitoring of edge routers and my IP prefixes with anomaly notification.
◦ Monitor changes to critical routes inside and outside my network, including third party and peer routes.
● BGP hi-jack and route leak event signatures.
● Forensic BGP update analysis.
● Peer (local and remote) monitoring
● RPKI monitoring
● DNS monitoring
● Integration with Crosswork Network Automation tools (on-premises)
Get Started Quickly with Crosswork Cloud Network Insights “Express Setup”
First-time users can get set up quickly to monitor their IP prefixes based on ASN information. Network Insights automatically populates the configuration of the service for all IP prefixes based on their current observed state.
Express setup feature
Monitored IP prefix alarm history
The alarm history helps users quickly identify IP prefix alarm events of importance. Events can be sorted and searched in various ways to quickly locate the root cause of a service-impacting incident. Once an event is located, the detailed information for that event can be viewed as part of the next action. Subscribers will have different lookback periods based on the tier of subscription purchased.
Alarm history
IP prefix alarm details
Each alarm event can be viewed in detail. Detailed BGP event information can be viewed to assess the cause and impact of each BGP event signature. Detailed forensic BGP update information can then be viewed to locate offending route change sources and to quickly identify the appropriate remediation action. A history of the frequency of each BGP event signature can then be compared to understand related route events for the same policy.
Detailed BGP event information
IP Prefix Path Topology
Crosswork Cloud Network Insights Path Topology makes it easy to search key BGP changes over time. IP Route Prefix Path Topologies can be observed as a point in time ‘Snapshot’ or as a ‘Time Comparison’. BGP path events can be visualized to help identify changes in Autonomous Systems (AS) paths via intermediate networks. Filters support visualization of BGP updates from All Peers or specifically Peers owned by the user.
BGP Path Topology View
Table 1. Lists the main features and benefits of the Crosswork Cloud Network Insights
Crosswork Cloud Network Insights is a natural evolution of the BGPmon.net solution. Customers familiar with the BGPmon.net Premium and free services can subscribe to the equivalent Crosswork Network Insights Essentials subscription and free tiers. This Essentials tier provides approximate price parity and more features with the now deprecated (circa Feb 2024) BGPmon.net Premium and free Services.
The Crosswork Cloud Network Insights Advantage and Premier subscription tiers expand on the Crosswork Cloud Essentials tier to provide new insight and analysis capabilities. These new tiers provide expanded near real-time and historical state information for each monitored IP prefix. Building upon the Essentials tier, the Advantage and Premier tiers will continue to be enhanced with new alarm, reporting, and analysis capabilities over time. The primary difference between the Advantage Tier and the Premier Tier is the accessibility of historical route information and its use in event normalization.
Crosswork Cloud Network Insights Subscription Tiers
Table 2.
| Description |
Entitlement Model |
| Crosswork Cloud Network Insights Essentials Tier* |
Per Configured IP Route Prefix Monitored |
| Crosswork Cloud Network Insights Advantage Tier* |
Per Configured IP Route Prefix Monitored |
| Crosswork Cloud Network Insights Premier Tier* |
Per Configured IP Route Prefix Monitored |
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Cisco offers a wide range of services to help accelerate your success in connecting to Cisco Crosswork Cloud Network Insights. The innovative Cisco Services offerings are delivered through a unique combination of people, processes, tools, and partners and are focused on helping you increase operational efficiency and improve your network control. Cisco Advanced Services use an architecture-led approach to help you align your network infrastructure with your business goals and achieve long-term value. Cisco Crosswork™ products can be combined with the Cisco SMARTnet® service to help you resolve mission-critical problems with direct access at any time to Cisco network experts and award-winning resources. Spanning the entire network lifecycle, Cisco Services offerings help increase investment protection, optimize network operations, support migration operations, and strengthen your IT expertise. For more information, please visit www.cisco.com/go/services.
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Table 3. Document revisions
| New or revised topic |
Described in |
Date |
| IP Prefix Peer Alarm Updates |
August 2023 |
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| Offer updates |
February 2022 |
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| Offer and UI Updates |
July 30, 2021 |
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| User Interface Update |
November 28, 2019 |
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| Subscription Tiers Added |
October 30, 2019 |
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| General Availability |
January 30, 2019 |