Avoiding Bogus Alerts Using AWS-Based Proxies & Outsourced BGP for Distributed Monitoring
blog.logicmonitor.com/2014/03/05/avoiding-bogus-alerts-using-aws-based-proxies-outsourced-bgp-for-distributed-monitoring
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We also could have decided to start peering directly with additional ISPs with the idea being that more connections equals a greater likelihood for transit success, but a simpler solution that avoids us having to manage our own BGP peerings was to deploy a number of proxy servers in various EC2 regions. Proxies receive requests from Collectors and forward them (storing nothing on disk) to LogicMonitors data centers.