checktheroads-hyperglass/README.md

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**hyperglass** is a modern network looking glass application. A looking glass is typically implemented by network service providers as a way of providing customers, peers, and partners with a way to easily view elements of, or run tests from the provider's network.

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**hyperglass** is intended to make implementing a looking glass too easy not to do, with the lofty goal of improving the internet community at large by making looking glasses more common across autonomous systems of any size.

## Features

-   BGP Route, BGP Community, BGP AS Path, Ping, Traceroute
-   Full frontend and backend IPv6 support
-   [Netmiko](https://github.com/ktbyers/netmiko)-based connection handling for traditional network devices
-   [FRRouting](https://frrouting.org/) support via [hyperglass-frr](https://github.com/checktheroads/hyperglass-frr) REST API
-   [BIRD](https://bird.network.cz/) support via [hyperglass-bird](https://github.com/checktheroads/hyperglass-bird) REST API
-   Customizable commands for each query type by vendor
-   Clean, modern, google-esq GUI based on the [Bumla](https://bulma.io) framework
-   Customizable colors, logo, web fonts, error messages, UI text
-   Simple TOML config file for all customizable parameters (no databases!)
-   Optional SSH Proxy to further direct secure router access
-   Configurable IP/Prefix "blacklist" to prevent lookup of sensitive prefixes
-   Configurable rate limiting, powered by [Flask-Limiter](https://github.com/alisaifee/flask-limiter)
-   Query response caching with configurable cache timeout
-   [Prometheus](https://prometheus.io/) metrics for query statistics tracking

## Platform Support

hyperglass is preconfigured to support the following platforms:

-   **Cisco IOS-XR**: Netmiko `cisco_xr` vendor class
-   **Cisco Classic IOS/IOS-XE**: Netmiko `cisco_ios` vendor class
-   **Juniper JunOS**: Netmiko `junos` vendor class
-   **FRRouting**: [`hyperglass-frr`](https://github.com/checktheroads/hyperglass-frr) API
-   **BIRD**: [`hyperglass-bird`](https://github.com/checktheroads/hyperglass-bird) API

Theoretically, any vendor supported by Netmiko can be supported by hyperglass. To request support for a specifc platform, please [submit a Github Issue](https://github.com/checktheroads/hyperglass/issues/new) with the **enhancement** label.

## Coming Soon

-   [GoBGP](https://github.com/osrg/gobgp) Support

## Community

For now, hyperglass news will be made available via Twitter:

-   [@checktheroads](https://twitter.com/checktheroads)

**hyperglass is developed with the express intention of being free to the networking community**.

*However, the hyperglass demo does cost [/checktheroads](https://github.com/checktheroads) about $15/month for 3 Digital Ocean droplets. If you're feeling particularly helpful and want to help offset that cost, small donations are welcome.*

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## Acknowledgements

-   This project originally started as a fork of [vraulsan](https://github.com/vraulsan)'s [looking-glass](https://github.com/vraulsan/looking-glass) project. The guts of the Flask components still remain from that project, but almost everything else has been rewritten. Nevertheless, the inspiration for building hyperglass came from here.

## License

[Clear BSD License](https://github.com/checktheroads/hyperglass/master/LICENSE)