Topology views

The topology view renders the resources in a snapshot as an interactive graph — VPCs and resource groups at the top level, subnets nested inside them, and individual resources grouped by type within each subnet.

Opening a topology view

From a cloud account

1. Open Cloud Accounts and select an account.
2. Click the Topology tab.

This shows the topology for the account’s most recent snapshot.

From a specific snapshot

1. Open a cloud account and go to Scan history.
2. Click a snapshot to open it.
3. Click View topology.

This lets you compare topologies across scans — useful for seeing how a deployment changed the resource graph.

From an environment

If an environment has a linked cloud account, its snapshots also support topology:

1. Open an environment.
2. Go to Snapshots.
3. Click a snapshot, then View topology.

Reading the graph

Element	Description
Outer rings	VPCs (AWS) or resource groups (Azure) — top-level network boundaries
Inner rings	Subnets nested within a VPC or resource group
Nodes	Individual resources (EC2 instances, RDS clusters, security groups, etc.)
Edges	Connections between resources (e.g. a load balancer pointing to its target instances)
Category colours	Compute, network, IAM, security, storage — each category has a distinct colour

Hovering over a node shows the resource’s type, ID, region, and key attributes. Resources that don’t belong to a VPC or subnet appear in an ungrouped area at the edge of the graph.

Using topology alongside drift detection

The topology view is a snapshot of a point in time. After a deployment, open the new snapshot’s topology and compare it visually to a pre-deployment snapshot to confirm the expected resources appeared (or were removed). For a structured diff, use Drift Detection — the change set shows the same data in tabular form with before/after values.