Alternatives to bgp.tools
A web tool for exploring BGP routing, ASNs, prefixes and peering, with paid network monitoring. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
bgp.tools
A web tool for exploring BGP routing, ASNs, prefixes and peering, with paid network monitoring.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as bgp.tools.
Hurricane Electric BGP Toolkit
A web lookup for ASNs, prefixes, peers and internet routing data run by Hurricane Electric.
Hurricane Electric BGP Toolkit is a free web lookup for ASNs, prefixes, peers and RPKI with a looking glass, but its data updates daily and it offers no monitoring.
RIPEstat
A web service for looking up routing, registration and geolocation data on IP addresses and ASNs.
RIPEstat draws on over 35 datasets with routing history and BGPlay visualisations for free, though its Data API is limited to non-commercial use.
Robtex
A free lookup service for domains, IP addresses, AS numbers and reputation data.
Robtex offers free lookups of AS numbers, domains and IPs with reputation data, but provides no monitoring or alerting.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
RIPE Atlas
A global network of measurement probes for testing internet connectivity and reachability from many locations.
NextTrace
An open-source command-line traceroute tool that shows geolocation and ASN details for each hop.
Globalping
A free service for running ping, traceroute, DNS, MTR and HTTP tests from probes worldwide.
ICANN Lookup
ICANN's web tool for looking up registration data for domain names and Internet number resources.
Batfish
A network configuration analysis tool that finds bugs and checks the correctness of router and switch configurations.
Akvorado
Self-hosted flow collector, enricher and visualizer for NetFlow, IPFIX and sFlow traffic data.
