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Infrastructure teams know the problem well: you have a CMDB, but nobody trusts it. The data is months old, half the servers that are listed no longer exist, and the new Kubernetes clusters your platform team stood up last quarter aren't in there at all. When you actually need it for an incident, a change review, or a compliance audit, it lets you down.
We built Parascope to fix this. Today we're making it available.
Parascope is an observational infrastructure discovery platform. It continuously discovers what exists across your estate, tracks how things change over time, and maps the relationships between components. All automatically, without requiring anyone to fill out a form.
The key word is observational. Parascope does not try to prescribe what your infrastructure should look like. It observes what it actually is. There is no workflow where someone declares a server exists and then it appears in the CMDB. Instead, Parascope finds it, identifies it, and starts tracking it from that moment forward.
This distinction matters more than it might seem. Authoritative CMDBs that require human data entry degrade from day one. Parascope's data is only as stale as its last collection cycle, and collection is continuous.
If you've worked with enterprise infrastructure, you've lived through CMDB rot. It happens gradually. A server gets decommissioned without a ticket. A new application gets deployed without going through the change process. A team in another office provisions a database that nobody else knows about. Over months and years, the gap between what the CMDB says exists and what actually exists grows until the CMDB becomes a liability rather than an asset.
Manual data entry doesn't scale. The discipline required to keep a CMDB current conflicts directly with the speed at which modern infrastructure changes. Cloud-native environments make this worse: containers come and go in seconds, autoscaling groups spin up and terminate instances continuously, and Kubernetes controllers are constantly reconciling state. No human process can track this.
The industry has tried to solve it with discovery agents — software installed on every managed system that reports configuration data back to a central platform. This helps, but it has real limitations: agents must be installed and maintained on every target, there are always gaps in coverage, and many infrastructure components (network equipment, storage arrays, cloud-managed services) don't support agents at all.
Parascope takes a different approach.
You deploy a lightweight appliance — a virtual machine that runs in your environment. The appliance hosts a set of collectors, each designed to observe a specific type of infrastructure. Collectors connect to your systems using existing APIs and protocols: the Kubernetes API server, storage cluster APIs, hypervisor management interfaces, DNS, monitoring platforms, identity providers, and more.
Each collector runs on its own schedule. It discovers what exists, pulls configuration data, and publishes it to Parascope's processing pipeline. The processor normalizes everything into a universal Configuration Item model, detects changes since the last collection, and updates the graph of relationships between components.
The result is a continuously updated, automatically maintained view of your infrastructure: diverse sources, unified into a single queryable model.
Setup takes minutes. Point the appliance at your sources, provide read-only credentials, and it starts discovering immediately. There's no schema to design, no mappings to configure, no import process to run.
Your infrastructure credentials never leave your environment. The appliance runs in your network, connects to your systems directly, and only sends observed metadata (configuration facts about what exists) to the Parascope platform. Credentials are stored on the appliance and used locally.
This is a deliberate architectural choice. We're asking for read-only access to some of the most sensitive systems in your environment. The right answer is to minimize what traverses your network boundary. Parascope receives facts, not credentials.
Automatic discovery. Parascope finds configuration items across your estate without manual input. When something new appears, it shows up. When something is removed, it's marked as deleted rather than silently vanishing.
Change tracking with diffs. Every configuration change is recorded with a before-and-after diff. You can see exactly what changed on any configuration item over its entire history. This is invaluable for incident investigation: "what changed in the last 24 hours before this outage?"
Relationship mapping and lineage. Parascope understands how configuration items relate to each other. A Kubernetes pod runs on a node, which runs on a virtual machine, which runs on a hypervisor host. You can traverse these relationships in both directions: from a failing pod all the way down to the physical hardware, or from a storage volume up through every workload that depends on it.
Natural language querying. ParaQL lets you query your infrastructure in plain language. "Show me all Kubernetes pods in a crash loop on nodes with high memory pressure." No SQL, no custom query language to learn.
Criticality scoring. Parascope scores configuration items based on their connectivity and role in your dependency graph. Items that many other things depend on score higher. This helps prioritize investigation during incidents and identify blast radius before making changes.
The demo environment is available now at demo.parascope.io. It's populated with synthetic infrastructure data covering multiple Kubernetes clusters, storage, compute, networking, and identity components, with realistic change history and relationships. You can explore it without signing up.
If you want to connect Parascope to your own infrastructure, start a free trial. You'll have a live workspace in minutes.
We support diverse sources out of the box, and the collector architecture is designed for extension. If you have infrastructure we don't yet cover — a specific network vendor, a custom monitoring platform, an internal service catalog — we can add a collector for it. Get in touch.
We're building this in the open, iterating based on what real teams need. If you're an infrastructure or platform engineer who's frustrated with the state of configuration management, we'd like to talk.
If you're on the security side and you're frustrated trying to protect infrastructure you can't fully see, Parascope is worth a look. Full asset visibility is where good security posture starts.