Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method and apparatus for monitoring a global failure in a virtual gateway cluster. The method may include: setting, in response to receiving a network probe setting instruction, a network probe in a target monitoring scenario, the network probe including a sending end probe and a receiving end probe; collecting a response data packet sent by the sending end probe to the receiving end probe via a target virtual gateway cluster; and analyzing the response data packet based on a preset monitoring index, to determine whether a global failure occurs in the target virtual gateway cluster.