Path Selection between 10 gig fiber and microwave

Hello everyone,
my network is running OSPF as an IGP, i have a 10 gig Ethernet  fiber connected between two sites and a microwave link as a redundant connection.
since ospf metric is cost ( or bandwidth ), the 10 gig ethernet connection is always preferred. however, sometimes the 10 gig link is flapping or the bit error rate is bad, is there anyway to change the path selection to go through the microwave when the bit error rate in the 10 gig link is bad or the link flaps ?
basically can we make the path selection based on anything than the speed or cost ?

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Bandwidth can be a metric to OER/PfR.  Much else can be used by OER/PfR.
The intent of this technology is sort of described by the names, Optimized Edge Routing (v1) and Performance Routing (v2).
Both can account for path bandwidth and/or analyze performance.
Understand typical dynamic routing protocols keep track of paths between source and destination and some have a way to "weight" paths  (for example, OSPF link cost [which by RFC, hasn't nothing to do with bandwidth, but is often based on that]).
OER/PfR, for example, can run their own SLA tests.
Years ago, I set up OER in large dual MPLS/VPN environment.  Our initial "problem", after activation, our WAN performance monitoring tools (and our users!) no longer "saw" any WAN performance issues.  They were still happening, but OER "saw" them first, and worked around them before the monitoring tools saw them.

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