Historical traceroute logging

Thu Dec 3 20:40:30 UTC 2009

Does anyone know of any tools that can do repeated traceroutes over time 
to a remote IP and log the results for later viewing/comparison?  I'd 
like to do a traceroute several times a day and store the details in CVS 
or somewhere accessible down the road.  Alerting to major path changes 
would be nice but not critical.  The ability to compare traceroute 
output down the road would also be nice but also not critical.  I'm more 
interested in the path than the individual hops' RTTs.

What's prompting this is a major change in RTTs for several hours 
yesterday to an ITSP with a site in the south.  We share a common 
upstream (L3) and have in the past always transited that provider to get 
to each other.  I showed a route change for the specific /23 in question 
in my border routers' RIBs.  The adjacent /23 originating from the same 
ITSP but in a different part of the country did not change (and neither 
did RTTs to the hosts we monitor in that /23).  The site claimed nothing 
changed on their end and that they know of no changes upstream.  BGP 
Play shows a route change from Level3 to Internap during the time in 
question (thought the times don't line up exactly) which most likely 
caused the more than double RTTs we were seeing.  My Cacti Advanced Ping 
graphs caught the problem in all its glory.  Nagios alerted me to the 
high RTT times as well.  What I didn't get during that period of time 
was a traceroute to the site in question.

I'd like to run a traceroute several times a day and find some way to 
store the output and work with it later if needed.  I'd prefer OSS but 
commercial apps would be considered too.  I'm sure I'm not the first to 
have a need to check traceroutes like that.  How do the rest of you 
handle it?

Thanks
  Justin