[dns-operations] Distributed Monitoring

[Brian Hartvigsen (bhartvig)]

We do a combination of Catchpoint and VPS for monitoring DNS.  The VPS are just to cover areas where we want more specific monitoring (e.g. trying to watch what’s happening with specific upstream providers or needing better density in a specific geo.)  Initially it was all VPS monitoring from about 6 or 8 different locations, do a bunch of digs, send an alert if x% of them fail to resolve or are incorrect. Catchpoint came later but does basically the same thing.

BGP monitoring is done internally (OpenDNS, now a part of Cisco, owns BGPmon so needless to say we use that to monitor our prefixes.)  Really helpful to make sure your packets actually flow to you ;-)

— Brian

> On Mar 3, 2016, at 2:16 AM, Brett <brettcarr at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> For various reasons we are currently considering changing some of the
> monitoring around our DNS platform. We are specifically looking at the
> distributed monitoring of Anycast  Auth DNS servers (IE from multiple
> end points). I was wondering what other people use for this type of
> monitoring? Anything you would strongly recommend or strongly advise
> against. Open source along with commercial and SAAS solutions would
> all be considered, the most important things are reliability and cost.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -- 
> Brett
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