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Container-Based WAN Monitoring

January 2, 2020

I’ve been waiting to see some good ideas for things you might run in a container on a Cisco router or switch. What might you do with that, either home-grown or as a product?

In the WAN monitoring space, ThousandEyes and Netbeez now both offer container-based probes that you can run in a Cisco IOS-XE device. Their probes will do ping, DNS, traceroute, and / or HTTP to a set of centrally defined targets, and provide alerts and graphs based on response time (and maybe other factors).

ThousandEyes has offered its container probe since July 2016.

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