Monitoring Site to Site VPN Traffic And Alerting During an Outage

[JStellato]

Something we've faced over the years with the MX Firmware has been beta's or RC's causing site to site VPN outages, but reporting in the dashboard that the VPN's are alive.  (i.e. the most recent 18.211 Prioritization Bug) What I would like to know is if anyone has a solution in place that can continuously ping, or access resources across Site to Site VPN's, and report if it stops working.  If so, what is it, and are there options for MSP's that could be cloud centric, like a Meraki Plug in or something.

[PhilipDAth]

What you are describing sounds like a general-purpose monitoring solution like PRTG or StatsSeeker.

[JStellato]

Aren't those both locally installed?  It seems hard to scale this to thousands of networks, is there anything you know of that is cloud based?

[PhilipDAth]

Both will need agents to do what you ask.

PRTY can absolutely scale to thousands of networks.  It also supports concepts like escalations.

[Richard_Rensen]

We log VPN connectivity messages to our Elastic cluster where it is being processed, and if a VPN is down for a specified duration, it triggers an alert to our ITSM for further analysis.

We do this for all our clients, so its one solution that fits for all.