Your estate changes every week.
Connect Continuum, let it draw what is running, add what only your team knows, and publish a document that refreshes itself.
Where are you starting from?
How much of it do you want to draw yourself?
Step 01 of 08
Connect Continuum to your systems
Add a cloud connection for each AWS, Azure or GCP account in scope.
Monitoring that never leaves your network is reached by the Continuum Local agent, which dials out from inside it, so nothing has to be opened up to reach in.
Step 02 of 08
Create a blueprint
A blueprint is the diagrams, the writing around them and the detail behind every node. Name it, say who can see it, and it is ready to be drawn into.
Step 03 of 08
Let Continuum draw it
Discovery finds the resources in scope and lays them out with their accounts, regions, VPCs and subnets intact.
Every resource also gets a stratum: the layer under the shape, holding its properties, tags and the resources it touches.
Step 04 of 08
Add what discovery cannot see
An API tells you what is running, never why. Annotate the drawing, group things the way your team talks about them, and write the prose a new joiner would need.
Step 05 of 08
Attach the operational context
Continuum Link takes a dated snapshot from Datadog, PagerDuty, ServiceNow, SolarWinds or thirty-odd other platforms and pins it to the stratum it belongs to, as its own read-only tab.
Bind them a node at a time, or press Suggest Continuum Links and approve the matches it puts forward.
Step 06 of 08
Review it
Read the blueprint the way its audience will. Every page has a Discussion tab, so the questions and the answers stay with the thing they are about instead of in a mail thread.
Step 07 of 08
Publish
Pick the audience: your team, your organisation, anybody with the link, or the public web. The diagrams stay live on the published page, so a reader can click a node and open the layer underneath it.
Step 08 of 08
Then leave it alone
Continuum polls on a schedule.
New resources land next to the things they connect to, shapes you deleted by hand are not put back, and everything you authored stays where you put it: positions, annotations, colours, freehand and prose.
Your next step
Start one
Connect a cloud account and create a blueprint. Continuum draws the first version of the diagram before you have written a word.