Iris

Iris provides internet scale route trace datasets and allow researchers to run their own measurements.

Get regular internet scale route trace datasets

Iris performs regular route traces of the load-balanced paths from a small number of vantage points to all routed IPv4 address prefixes. Iris currently provides two datasets:

• Exhaustive: multipath traces towards every routed IPv4 address prefixes from our laboratory in Paris at 100,000 pps with ICMP probes. These measurements are made weekly and discover around 2 million IPv4 infrastructure addresses and 5 million links between them.
• Zeph: multipath traces that are coordinated among multiple vantage points so as to achieve high coverage of the discoverable IPv4 infrastructure addresses. These measurements are conducted occasionally using Zeph algorithm from five GCP instances probing at 100,000 pps towards 2 million prefixes with ICMP probes and discover around 3 million IPv4 infrastructure addresses and 20 million links between them.

Run your own measurements from agents across the internet

Iris offers a RESTful API for running your own IPv4 and IPv6 pings and route traces from the vantage points provided by the EdgeNet testbed. If you prefer, you can use this website's graphical interface to run your measurements.
You can check the live status of the platform here.

Iris has been in constant evolution, and at the moment we are not accepting new user registrations. Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions about the platform.

Run your own Iris instance, or contribute to the project

We provide Docker images for users who want to run their own instance of Iris.
Iris is fully open-source and released under a liberal software license, feel free to make you own changes to its code.