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Catalogs

A catalog is a defined selection of entities. For example, you can use catalogs to 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. 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 service entities.
  • Infrastructure contains all entities representing your infrastructure assets. 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, but note that the custom names of these default catalogs will not override the references to their default names throughout the app. Instead, you could choose to create additional custom catalogs, as described below.

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.

Learn more in catalog customization.