Global Cyber Alliance
MANRS Observatory
A platform for tracking, scoring, and comparing internet routing security across participating networks worldwide. V2 — a full rewrite — shipped on 15 June 2026.
Built in collaboration with the GCA Engineering team.
What is MANRS?
MANRS — Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security — is a global initiative launched in 2014 to improve the security and resilience of the internet's routing infrastructure. Networks that join commit to a set of concrete actions that reduce the most common routing threats: hijacks, leaks, and spoofing.
The MANRS Observatory was introduced in 2019 to make participation visible and measurable — turning routing security data from multiple sources into actionable readiness scores. In January 2024, Global Cyber Alliance assumed responsibility for MANRS and its infrastructure, and the GCA Engineering team began a complete rebuild of the platform.
While the initial V2 release may look familiar, the technology underneath has been entirely reengineered — new data ingestion pipeline, modern API, and a rebuilt frontend.
The V2 rewrite
15 Jun 2026
V2 release date
Jan 2024 – Jun 2026
In development
6 years
Historical data
Near-instant performance
The new Observatory is fast on almost every page. Most API routes return within 100ms before caching. If you used the old Observatory, you'll notice the difference immediately — it was never close to this.
More reliable data
The old ingestion pipeline had a single point of failure: one upstream outage and all metrics went down, often without the team knowing until a user reported it. V2 pulls from redundant authoritative sources wherever possible — a single outage no longer takes down entire metrics.
MANRS Readiness scores
The scoring model at the heart of the Observatory was rebuilt for V2. Each network's readiness score draws from multiple data signals — ROA coverage, IRR hygiene, and routing action compliance — normalised across providers and weighted into a score that's meaningful to operators and researchers alike.
A team effort
V2 was a joint effort across the GCA Engineering team. This page is a reflection of what the team built together — the collective result of years of iteration, stakeholder feedback, and engineering work. We're genuinely proud of what shipped.
Global overview
Routing security at a glance
The Observatory homepage surfaces the state of internet routing security across all participating MANRS networks in a single view. Operators, researchers, and policymakers can immediately see adoption trends, aggregate readiness scores, and how the global picture is shifting over time.
Speed was a core goal of the V2 rewrite. Most API routes now return within 100ms before caching — the dashboard loads and responds near-instantly, regardless of the volume of data behind it. If you used the old Observatory, the difference is obvious from the first page load.
Regional breakdown
See how the world compares
The Observatory lets you slice routing security performance across regions, economies, and RIRs — ARIN, RIPE NCC, APNIC, LACNIC, and AFRINIC. Rather than looking at individual networks in isolation, you can understand how entire parts of the internet are progressing on routing security adoption.
This kind of visibility is valuable beyond individual operators. Policymakers, researchers, and regional coordinators can identify where adoption is strong, where it's lagging, and where targeted effort is most needed.
Historical trends
Track progress over time
Routing security doesn't improve overnight. The history view lets networks and researchers track how MANRS Readiness scores have evolved — capturing the long arc of adoption across the ecosystem.
V2 extended the historical window significantly. The old Observatory displayed up to two years of data; V2 surfaces everything back to January 2020 — six years of routing security history now accessible in one place. That depth makes it possible to measure the real impact of MANRS participation over time, not just a snapshot.
ROA coverage
Deep RPKI and ROA visibility
Route Origin Authorisation (ROA) coverage is one of the core signals in the MANRS Readiness scoring model. The Observatory surfaces ROA statistics in detail — showing what proportion of prefixes are covered, valid, invalid, or unknown across a network's routing table.
A key improvement in V2 was making this data reliably available. The old ingestion pipeline had no redundancy — an upstream RPKI data source outage would silently wipe out metrics, and the team often wouldn't know until a user flagged it. V2 pulls from multiple authoritative sources and fixed long-standing gaps where certain regional data wasn't making it through at all.
See it live at the MANRS Observatory.
The Observatory is free to use. Network operators can search for their ASN, view their MANRS Readiness score, and track their progress over time.