Entities and associations discovered by Discovery Agents are richly populated with metadata key-value pair attributes in an automatic manner. Attributes that are maintained and updated by the operators are also included as part of the enriched metadata.

Examples

A VM could be tagged as a “developer” VM by admin, allowing extra network privileges which otherwise won’t be allowed.

AWS IAM resources such as user, roles, policies are richly documented by adding create/modify timestamps, source created, tags from cloud services, MFA enabled, last accessed, access keys bounded, session duration, role last used, etc.