We are working on solution to fix this bug on our current stack that should be deployed in the coming weeks.
For a gateway to appear offline on the TTI console, there might be several reasons:
Network errors, such as unstable WiFi, SIM card running out of data, firewall changes.
Wrong configuration
TTI metrics service went off
In this article we are going to explain reason number 3.
Gateway metric services goes off
When referring to the Gateway metric services, we are making reference to a customer facing service in charges of providing users with insight on their gateways. Our sever monitoring still have the updated data.
TTI gateway traffic monitoring and metrics is not officially released and suffer from several bugs and the most famous one is “Randomly losing connection to the routing services” . This bug can impact any gateways but in most cases will impact all of your gateways.
Failure on this service does not impact the message routing. Your device uplinks and downlinks will still go through.
This causes a problem where the gateway appears to be offline on the console and the gateway traffic is never shown. However please note that the routing services may be working normal. In the next step, we will check how to detect this.
It impacts all gateways regardless of packet-forwarder and brand.
How to detect it
Since this service only affects the status on the console ('display'), it can easily be misinterpreted with a routing or gateway incident.
To make sure your hardware deployment is safe and working, go to a device traffic page that you know is in range of a gateway(s). Once you see an uplink appear in the traffic page, you can expand on it and look at the gateway metadata. If your gateway(s) show(s) up, then that is the bug. Otherwise, if you dont see it, then your gateway has a problem. In the event no uplinks are being showed then there might be another problem (see the start of the article).
Restore
In case you identified this bug you can contact the support so they can restore the metric service. The operation only take a few minutes.
Customer on with a support plan can contact the support directly but make sure to indicated all the necessary information (EUIs, timeline, etc…).