Graph explorer

Use the graph explorer to build queries and custom filters for understanding your infrastructure. To access the graph explorer, click Graph explorer in your HCP organization's left navigation panel.

Graph view

The resource graph visualizes the relationships between resources. These graphs draw lines between related resources to help you understand your environment. You can click a resource node to inspect its details.

Infragraph can visualize resource topography in the following ways:

• Force directed automatically clusters different resources with close relationships
• Stacked by type clusters resources according to their type, stacked vertically.
• Radial organizes resources in a circle to highlight connection volumes and highly connected hubs.

Table view

Click Table to display results in a table that lists the resource name and its data source. Click a resource's name to inspect resource details.

You can also return a table of connected resources to understand dependencies between resources.

Forced directed

Use this mode to help you understand how your resources relate to one another.

This graph maps the virtual machines and their connected EC2 volumes in a region according to the subnets and VPCs they use. Their distribution in the viewing area approximates how closely the resources relate to one another and helps you understand subbnets and VPCs according the workloads they enable.

Stacked by type

Use this mode to help you understand the relative distribution of resources in your query results.

This graph maps the virtual machines and their connected EC2 volumes in a region according to the subnets and VPCs they use. Their distribution in the viewing area helps you identify VPC and subnet resources specifically by separating them from other resources.

Radial view

Use this mode to compare connections side-by-side and instantly identify highly connected dependencies.

This graph arranges your infrastructure resources along the outer perimeter of a circle, drawing connection lines across the center. This layout helps you spot critical resources and compare the relational volume and distribution between different resources or resource types.

Example source query

The examples in the images on this page were generated with the following query:

{
  "edge": {
    "absent": false,
    "edgeTypes": [
      "CONTAINS"
    ],
    "nodeQuery": {
      "edge": {
        "absent": false,
        "edgeTypes": [
          "CONTAINS"
        ],
        "nodeQuery": {
          "edge": {
            "absent": false,
            "edgeTypes": [
              "CONTAINS"
            ],
            "nodeQuery": {
              "edge": {
                "absent": false,
                "edgeTypes": [
                  "ATTACHES_TO"
                ],
                "direction": "EDGE_DIRECTION_INCOMING",
                "nodeQuery": {
                  "edge": {
                    "absent": false,
                    "edgeTypes": [
                      "CONTAINS"
                    ],
                    "direction": "EDGE_DIRECTION_INCOMING",
                    "nodeQuery": {
                      "node": {
                        "unifiedTypes": [
                          "ZONE"
                        ]
                      }
                    }
                  },
                  "node": {
                    "unifiedTypes": [
                      "VOLUME"
                    ]
                  }
                }
              },
              "node": {
                "unifiedTypes": [
                  "VIRTUAL_MACHINE"
                ]
              }
            }
          },
          "node": {
            "unifiedTypes": [
              "SUBNET"
            ]
          }
        }
      },
      "node": {
        "unifiedTypes": [
          "VIRTUAL_NETWORK"
        ]
      }
    }
  },
  "node": {
    "unifiedTypes": [
      "REGION"
    ]
  }
}