Catalogs
Catalogs are the backbone of the Cortex platform — here, you can track and store information about all of the components that make up your infrastructure. You can see all entities in your Cortex account under Catalogs > All Entities. Additionally, you can organize entities into catalogs to make it easier to find and manage them.
Default catalogs
By default, Cortex comes with four built-in catalogs:
- Services contains all entities of type service
- Resources (or Infrastructure) contains all entities that are not of type service, domain, or team. If you choose to auto-import entities from AWS, Azure Resources, or Google Cloud, you can find them in this catalog.
- Domains contains all domain entities and displays them in a hierarchical view
- Teams contains all team entities and displays them in a hierarchical view alongside a leaderboard based on Scorecards
You can choose to rename these catalogs to fit your own taxonomy.
Custom catalogs
You can create custom catalogs to organize your entities in a way that makes sense for your organization. For example, you might want to create a custom catalog for all your AWS S3 buckets or for all your RDS instances. You can also create a custom catalog for all your tier 0 services.