Overview

Cloudcraft supports overlays that integrate data from multiple sources, enriching your diagrams with real-time insights. These views let you group and filter resources by key attributes, helping you focus on different parts of your architecture for troubleshooting, cost optimization, or security analysis. Each overlay is designed to address a specific operational goal, making it easy to adapt the diagram to your needs.

Available overlays

Cloudcraft provides the following built-in overlays:

• Infrastructure (default)
• Observability
• Security
• Cloud Cost Management (CCM)

Infrastructure

The infrastructure view provides a broad overview, grouping resources by Account, Region, and VPC. This view is ideal for generating architecture diagrams for troubleshooting or high-level review.

The infrastructure diagram excludes components like EBS, NAT Gateway, and Transit Gateway to reduce visual clutter and highlight the most important parts of your architecture.

Observability

The Observability overlay shows where the Datadog Agent is installed and what features are enabled per host, such as Application Performance Monitoring (APM), Cloud Network Monitoring (CNM), Log Management, and more. This helps you to assess visibility gaps across your environment.

On the Observability overlay, you can take action on individual resources or groups of resources:

• Click a single host to open a side panel with direct links to Fleet Automation, where you can deploy configurations or upgrade the Agent.
• Click a resource group, such as a subnet or VPC, to open a side panel that allows you to apply bulk updates across all the hosts in that resource group.
• To select multiple (but not all) hosts, hold down the Command key on Mac or the Control key on Windows while clicking on each host.

In the bottom left legend, the View Datadog coverage by dropdown allows you to inspect the installation status for specific features. Each row shows:

• Feature name (for example, APM, Logs, CNM)
• Numerical coverage: X / Y (for example, 16/35), where:
  • X is the number of resources with that feature enabled
  • Y is the total number of relevant resources in the current view or filter

Legend:

The observability overlay tracks coverage for the following products:

Security

The security overlay highlights potential security exposures in your architecture, grouping resources by Region, VPC, and Security Group. It displays misconfigurations detected by Cloud Security, helping you:

• Identify security issues directly in infrastructure diagrams.
• Analyze misconfigurations in context to prioritize remediation.
• Assess your security posture before deploying applications.

You can click on any any resource with findings to open a side panel with more details, allowing deeper investigation without leaving the diagram.

This view is ideal for mapping attack surfaces during penetration tests or security audits. To keep the diagram focused, components like EBS volumes and NAT Gateways are excluded.

By default, the security overlay shows Critical, High, and Medium misconfigurations, which you can filter at the bottom of the screen.

Cloud Cost Management

The Cloud Cost overlay helps you identify and act on savings opportunities within your AWS architecture diagrams. In this view:

• Recommendations are shown directly on resources with estimated monthly savings (for example, terminate unused RDS instances, migrate storage classes).
• Use the filter at the bottom of the screen to narrow recommendations by potential monthly savings range and recommendation type (Terminate, Migrate, Downsize, Purchase).

Clicking a resource opens a detailed side panel with:

• Current and projected monthly costs.
• A description of recommended changes.
• Quick actions to create a Jira issue or support case.
• Metrics and usage patterns explaining the recommendation.

This enables faster, in-context cost optimization without switching views.

Further reading

Additional helpful documentation, links, and articles:

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