Documentation forNetwork Performance Monitor

Network Routing Insights

Routing Insights gives you deeper visibility into routing by linking critical routing elements—routes, peers, interfaces, next hops, and VRFs—into a unified context. With this correlation, you can quickly see how routing components relate, assess the stability and health of routing paths, and gain clearer insight into changes that may affect network performance.

If you monitor devices via SNMP, you can view routing tables, routing neighbors, and virtual routing and forwarding (VRF).

Network Routing Insights

View routing information

In SolarWinds Platform Web Console, click My Dashboards > Network > Routing Insights. The dashboard shows routing information for the entire network.

This is only available with a SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted license.

Summary view

The Summary view shows routing information for the entire network.

Use the Flap Timeframe menu in the upper-right corner to select a time frame. The selected time frame applies only to flaps in all widgets on this page. It does not affect the existence of routes or neighbors. The default selection is Last 7 days.

The Summary view includes the following metrics.

  • Total monitored prefixes - the total number of prefixes across the network.

    A prefix is a combination of a destination and a CIDR block, regardless of the source node.

  • Stable vs. flapping routes - the percentage of routes that have no flaps in the selected time frame.

  • Total neighbors - the total number of routing neighbors, grouped by protocol.

  • Routes by protocol - routes grouped by protocol.

  • Routes by CIDR block - routes grouped by CIDR block.

  • Route stability - the number of flapping and stable routes.

    A route is flapping if it has at least one flap in the selected time frame; otherwise, it is stable.

  • Flaps by protocol - flaps grouped by protocol. Only flaps within the selected time frame are counted.

  • Top 10 flapping prefixes - the 10 prefixes with the highest number of flaps.

    A prefix is a combination of a destination and a CIDR block, regardless of the source node.

  • Top 10 nodes with most flapping routes - the 10 nodes with the highest number of flaps.

    This widget counts the total number of flaps across all routes for a specific node. Only flaps within the selected time frame are counted.

  • Neighbor stability - the number of flapping and stable neighbors.

    A neighbor is flapping if it has at least one flap in the selected time frame; otherwise, it is stable.

  • iBGP vs. eBGP neighbors - neighbors grouped by BGP role.

  • Top 10 VRFs by number of neighbors - the 10 VRFs with the highest number of routing neighbors.

  • Top 10 VRFs by most flapping routes - the 10 VRFs with the highest number of flaps across their routes. Only flaps within the selected time frame are counted.

View routing information for a node

  1. Go to the Node Details page.
  2. Click the Network subview.

The Network subview displays widgets with routing information:

  • List of VRFs on node - route distinguisher, VRF name, and description

  • Routing Details - polled routing protocol, last and next poll

  • Routing Neighbors (IPv4/IPv6) - neighbor node name, protocol, status, IP address, whether it is a remote neighbor, and the last change timestamp.

  • Routing Table - destination network, CIDR, next hop, interface, metric, and source

  • Top Flapping Routes - top flapping routes in descending order, ranked by the number of flaps during the selected time period

  • Default Route Changes - any changes to default routes in the designated network that include the viewed node.

For some widgets, such as Routing Table, Top Flapping Routes or Default Route Changes, you can select a specific VRF to view related data. Main represents routes polled without a VRF specified.