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Overview

Explore existing infrastructure​

The Overmind Explore feature provides a comprehensive view of your cloud environment, offering the depth and granularity required to fully understand your infrastructure. This feature allows you to visualize an entire application starting with nothing more than its URL, all from a single console.

Overmind explore view graph

Key Capabilities​

The Explore feature is designed to help you navigate and manage your infrastructure more effectively:

  • Dependency Mapping: Expand an item's dependencies to ensure it is safe to delete, preventing accidental disruption of connected services.
  • Unexpected Dependencies: Discover unexpected dependencies between applications by grouping resources using tags. This helps in identifying and managing cross-application dependencies.
  • Customization: Filter, sort, and hide items to tailor the view to your specific needs. This ensures you only see the information that is relevant to your current task.
  • Real-Time Discovery: Leverage real-time discovery to get the most up-to-date view of your infrastructure, ensuring that all changes and dependencies are accurately reflected.
  • Security Compliance: Use the Explore feature to ensure that all security policies are being adhered to by checking the dependencies and configurations of your cloud resources.
  • Blast Radius: Visualize the potential impact (blast radius) of any changes to your infrastructure, allowing you to understand the scope of dependencies affected by planned modifications.

Use Cases​

Here are some practical scenarios where the Explore feature can add value:

  • Before Deleting Resources: Use the dependency mapping to safely delete resources, ensuring that no critical services are disrupted.
  • Auditing and Compliance: Easily generate reports on your cloud environment for auditing purposes and ensure compliance with industry regulations.
  • Incident Response: Quickly understand the impact of an incident by exploring the dependencies and configurations of affected resources.
  • Optimization: Identify unused or underutilized resources to optimize costs and improve performance.