Build an interactive, application-aware model of observed cloud and network behavior.
Why Is IP Fabric’s Discovery Different?
Many tools have discovery features, but most organizations are still missing up to 40% of their networks. IP Fabric closes that visibility gap by modeling how your network, clouds, and applications work together to fuel critical services.
Agentless, API-Based Discovery
SNMP and agent-based discovery mechanisms are riddled with visibility gaps. IP Fabric offers a modern CLI and API-based approach, which discovers 100% of known and unknown devices from core to edge to cloud.
A Single Vendor-Neutral Model
Siloed tools can only show you fragments of your environment. IP Fabric normalizes data across all vendors to build a unified model of cloud and network behavior, layering on application data for a full view of critical dependencies.
AI-Ready Data On Demand
Would you trust an AI agent if it couldn’t see your whole network? IP Fabric ensures you don’t have to by providing a foundation of highly contextualized and normalized data that any AI agent can access and use to take action.
See Every Connection & Configuration
Get a complete view of cloud and network behavior by discovering all:
- CDP / LLDP neighbors
- Routing / forwarding tables
- MAC / ARP tables
- ACLs & security groups
- VPC / VNet peerings
- VPC / VNet route tables
- Transit & VPN gateways
- And more
Trace Any Path From End to End
Run a path lookup to see how any given packet traverses network and cloud environments, including all:
- Hop-by-hop forwarding decisions
- Hops invisible to traceroute (e.g. transparent firewalls)
- Security enforcement points (e.g. ACLs & firewall policies)
- Dependent applications and services
Map Infrastructure To Critical Applications
Ingest application definitions from APM tools like Illumio,
and correlate them against IP Fabric’s network model to see:
- Any paths & dependencies that impact app performance
- Any conflicts between network vs. host-level segmentation
- Every app within the blast radius of a compromised host
- Any controls that block app connectivity
Explore IP Fabric’s Solutions
AI & Automation
Govern a connected system of automation workflows using network data you can actually trust.
Source of Truth Accuracy
Continuously validate your Source of Truth (SoT) against an application-aware network digital twin.
Application Infrastructure Mapping
Protect critical applications across on-prem and cloud environments.
M&As / Divestitures
Understand the risks and opportunities in new networks, or prove separation from the ones you’re no longer managing.
FAQs
IP Fabric discovers all major network vendors, including Cisco, Juniper, Arista, Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet, Check Point, and HPE Aruba, as well as cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, and GCP. IP Fabric’s discovery is completely vendor-neutral, so you can get a unified view of your network that any team or tool can easily understand. See our vendor matrix for a fill list of every supported vendor and technology.
IP Fabric can integrate with all leading Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools via API, including Illumio, Guardicore, Datadog, Dynatrace, and AppDynamics. IP Fabric ingests application definitions and labels from these tools, and maps out the network devices and paths that each application relies on to deliver critical services. IP Fabric can also manually create applications, or ingest applications from manually curated data.
Every snapshot captures the observed behavior of your network and cloud at that point in time, including:
- Complete inventories of on-prem devices, configurations, and policy data.
- Cloud subnets, peerings, private endpoints, and endpoint groups.
- Layer 1–Layer 3 topologies and routing tables.
- Application-to-infrastructure mappings.
All network snapshots are vendor-neutral and normalized, so that any team or tool in your organization can use them to take informed action.
It depends on how many devices / cloud objects you have in your environment, and the scope of your desired snapshot. Your first full snapshot with IP Fabric may take a few hours, but subsequent full or partial snapshots take just a few minutes.
Most IP Fabric customers run at least one snapshot per day, but you can schedule automated snapshots to run at your desired cadence. If needed, you can also run full and partial snapshots on demand for quick troubleshooting and analysis.
No, IP Fabric does not use Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) for network discovery. SNMP does not discover all vendors, and can’t reliably map topologies through Layer 2 and Layer 3. Instead, IP Fabric discovers the network with API and CLI (Command Line Interface) calls. It starts from a single IP address, and hops to all neighboring devices until 100% of the network is found. This discovery process is completely vendor-neutral, resulting in a fully normalized model of your network state and behavior across Layer 1–Layer 3 topologies.
AI projects can’t be successful if they don’t have a reliable source of network data. IP Fabric acts as that data source, providing normalized, structured insights that are contextualized by an app-aware model of cloud and network behavior. These insights are easily accessible via API or enterprise-grade MCP server.
IP Fabric can also be used to validate that every AI agent is acting according to business intent. It does this by taking regular snapshots of on-prem and cloud environments, and comparing them against business intent. If your AI agent deviates from intent, IP Fabric will flag it and send webhooks to external tools to initiate remediation. During this process, IP Fabric does not push any changes by itself; this maintains a Segregation of Duties (SoD), which is essential for proper AIOps governance.