Ingesting data into Cortex

Getting your data into Cortex is the foundation for data-driven decision making and improved accountability across your teams.

By connecting your services, repositories, teams, infrastructure, and more, Cortex can provide a complete, up-to-date view of your ecosystem. This powers the ability to track ownership of entities, enforce production readiness and other standards via Scorecards, standardize common developer Workflows for entities, and more. It also ensures your developers can find what they need, understand how everything fits together, and make better decisions at every stage of the development lifecycle.

The pages in this section cover the following topics:

• How to import and manage entities

  • An entity is an object that represents a software construct. Entities are represented in YAML and can pull in data from integrations. Cortex can help ensure entity standards through Scorecards. Learn more in Managing entities.

• How to create and manage catalogs

  • Catalogs are a defined selection of entities. You can use them to track and store information about all the components that make up your infrastructure. Learn more in Managing catalogs.

• Integrations

  • Cortex supports pulling data across a broad set of integrations to create a single pane of glass. See all integrations in the sub-pages under Integrations.