BGP Health Probe

BGP Health Probe is a networking availability check that tests whether a service or path can receive traffic for interdomain routing. It uses timed requests, thresholds, and regional checks so teams can send traffic only to healthy targets while keeping evidence, reliability, and public-safe operational boundaries clear.

“The network engineering team used BGP Health Probe when a route advertisement changed, so the team could send traffic only to healthy targets before traffic crossed a service boundary.”