---
title: "'Monitor Your OVHcloud Connect'"
description: "'Discover the tools and metrics available to monitor your OVHcloud Connect service'"
url: https://docs.ovhcloud.com/pl/guides/network/ovhcloud-connect/monitor
lang: pl
lastUpdated: 2026-06-16
---
# Monitor Your OVHcloud Connect

## Objective

Monitoring your OVHcloud Connect service ensures that the connection is healthy, performant, and meeting your expectations. This guide covers the tools and metrics available.

Log in to your OVHcloud Control Panel
 and go to `Network
` > `OVHcloud Connect
`.
## Monitoring tools

### OVHcloud Control Panel

The primary interface for monitoring your connection provides visibility into the following metrics:

| Metric                 | Description                                           |
| ---------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------- |
| **Connection status**  | Whether the physical link is up or down               |
| **BGP session status** | Whether BGP peering is Established, Active, or Idle   |
| **Bandwidth usage**    | Current and historical throughput (inbound/outbound)  |
| **Port status**        | Physical interface state and error counters           |
| **Service details**    | PoP, bandwidth tier, vRack association, configuration |

### OVHcloud API

For programmatic monitoring and integration with your own tools:

```python
import ovh

client = ovh.Client(endpoint='ovh-eu')

service_name = "your-occ-service-uuid"

# Get service status
service = client.get(f"/ovhCloudConnect/{service_name}")
print(f"Status: {service['status']}")

# Get PoP configuration and BGP state
pop_config = client.get(f"/ovhCloudConnect/{service_name}/config/pop")
print(pop_config)
```

> Full API reference: [eu.api.ovh.com/console](https://eu.api.ovh.com/console/?section=%2FovhCloudConnect\&branch=v1)

### Your own monitoring tools

Complement OVHcloud's monitoring with your own infrastructure:

- **SNMP** — Poll your router's interfaces for traffic counters, error rates, and interface status.
- **BGP monitoring** — Use tools like `bgpstream`, `exabgp`, or your router's built-in monitoring to track BGP session stability and prefix changes.
- **Ping / latency probes** — Set up regular pings or latency measurements between your on-premises network and OVHcloud resources.
- **Third-party platforms** — Tools like Datadog, Zabbix, PRTG, or Grafana can aggregate metrics from both your infrastructure and OVHcloud's API.

## On-demand diagnostics

You can launch on-demand diagnostics from the OVHcloud Control Panel to get a point-in-time status report of your OVHcloud Connect service. Each diagnostic runs in real time against the OVHcloud-side equipment and returns a result you can view or download.

### Available diagnostics

**Layer 3 mode:**

| Diagnostic            | Description                                                                             |
| --------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **BGP Peering Test**  | Fetches the BGP session state and related information.                                  |
| **Routes**            | Fetches the routing table learned by OVHcloud via BGP (routes received from your side). |
| **Advertised-Routes** | Fetches the routing table advertised by OVHcloud to your side.                          |

**Layer 2 mode:**

| Diagnostic      | Description                                                                                               |
| --------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **MAC Address** | Fetches the list of MAC addresses seen on the Layer 2 segment between your network devices and the vRack. |

### Launch a diagnostic

1. Open the OVHcloud Connect service you want to diagnose.
2. At the bottom of the "POP Configuration" panel, in the "Diagnostic POP" segment, click the ellipsis button <code className="action">...</code>.
3. Select the diagnostic to run — for example <code className="action">BGP Peering Test</code> in Layer 3 mode, or <code className="action">Get the list of my MAC addresses</code> in Layer 2 mode.
4. Confirm by clicking <code className="action">Launch diagnostic</code>.

### Retrieve a result

1. Open the <code className="action">Diagnostics</code> tab of the service. Each diagnostic is listed with its ID and timestamp.
2. Click the ellipsis button <code className="action">...</code> next to the entry.
3. Select <code className="action">See result</code> to open the output in a new window, or <code className="action">Download result</code> to save a `.txt` file.

### Limits

| Limit          | Value                                                                                                                                                                  |
| -------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Retention**  | Only diagnostics initiated **within the last seven days** are accessible. Download and archive the ones you need to keep.                                              |
| **Rate limit** | **10 diagnostics per type, per service, per 24 hours.** This applies independently to each diagnostic type (BGP Peering Test, Routes, Advertised-Routes, MAC Address). |

:::info

Diagnostics are also available programmatically through the OVHcloud API under the `/ovhCloudConnect/{serviceName}/diagnostic/...` endpoints. Refer to the [API console](https://api.ovh.com/) for the full list.

:::

## Key metrics to watch

![Key metrics to watch](/images/network/ovhcloud-connect/monitor/fig-1.svg)
### Critical alerts (set these up immediately)

| Alert                    | Trigger                                                   | Action                                                            |
| ------------------------ | --------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Link down**            | Physical port state changes to "down"                     | Check cross-connect, SFP, and contact data centre or provider     |
| **BGP session down**     | BGP session state changes from "Established"              | Check router configuration, peer reachability, and firewall rules |
| **High bandwidth usage** | Throughput exceeds 80% of provisioned capacity            | Plan a bandwidth upgrade or optimise traffic                      |
| **Latency spike**        | RTT increases significantly above baseline                | Run traceroute and check for congestion or routing changes        |
| **Prefix count change**  | Unexpected increase or decrease in received/sent prefixes | Investigate route leaks or configuration changes                  |

## Monitoring commands on your router

### Cisco IOS

```bash
show interfaces GigabitEthernet0/0
show ip bgp summary
show ip bgp neighbors 192.0.2.1 received-routes
show ip bgp neighbors 192.0.2.1 advertised-routes
show ip route bgp
```

### Juniper JunOS

```bash
show interfaces terse
show bgp summary
show route receive-protocol bgp 192.0.2.1
show route advertising-protocol bgp 192.0.2.1
show route protocol bgp
```

## Best practices

- **Monitor from both sides** — Check metrics on your router and in the OVHcloud Control Panel.
- **Baseline your metrics** — Record normal bandwidth, latency, and prefix counts so you can detect anomalies.
- **Automate alerting** — Don't rely on manual checks. Set up automated notifications for critical events.
- **Review regularly** — Check monitoring dashboards weekly to spot trends (growing bandwidth, increasing latency).
- **Test failover** — If you have a Multi-AZ setup, periodically test failover and verify that monitoring detects the switch.

## What's next?

- [Forward your OVHcloud Connect logs](/pl/guides/network/ovhcloud-connect/logs-forwarding.md) to Logs Data Platform for long-term storage and analysis
- [Declare and follow up on an incident](/pl/guides/network/ovhcloud-connect/incident-followup.md) if you detect a problem
- Review [SLAs](/pl/guides/network/ovhcloud-connect/slas.md) to understand uptime guarantees

## Go further

For training or technical assistance implementing our solutions, contact your sales representative or visit our [Professional Services](https://www.ovhcloud.com/pl/professional-services/) page to request a quote and have your project analyzed by our experts.

Join our [community of users](https://community.ovhcloud.com/).