Drift Detection & Governance

Who it's for

Value for every role.

CIO / IT Director

Trust the CMDB feeding every decision, and cut audit and operational risk.

CMDB / Config Manager

Catch drift, stale records and duplicates the moment they appear, and govern every write-back.

IT Operations

Investigate why data is wrong in seconds, and approve changes instead of chasing them.

Audit & Compliance

A defensible, continuously validated record, not a point-in-time snapshot.

Service Owners

Sign off changes to your services before they ever hit the CMDB.

Security & Risk

Reduce risk from stale or unknown CIs sitting in critical services.

How it works

Detection, plus the governance to act on it.

Finding the problem is half the job, Core routes every change through the owner.

Continuous validation

uAlert continuously validates that modelled components are still present and correct.

Drift detection

Detects configuration drift and new relationship candidates, and alerts the owner.

Blind-spot detection

Surfaces assets in discovery but missing from the CMDB, stale records, duplicates and missing ownership.

Owner sign-off

Owners confirm changes before the CMDB is updated, no silent write-backs.

Tag & drift rules

Rules identify candidate CIs for a service and flag deviations from your standard.

Data quality scoring

Rank quality by source and track alignment to gold-standard sources over time.

Governance, not just detection

Change the CMDB with confidence.

Core validates modelled components, flags stale or decommissioned assets and surfaces new relationships, then routes them to the owner for sign-off, so every write-back is deliberate and auditable.

Continuous validation and drift rules
Owner confirmation before write-back
Blackout windows respect change policy
A full audit trail of every change

Questions

Frequently asked.

What counts as drift?

Configuration changes, new or removed relationships, and deviations from your modelled standard that affect accuracy.

Does it change our CMDB automatically?

Only with control, owners confirm changes before write-back, and blackout windows respect your change policy.

What is a blind spot?

A gap where sources disagree: assets in discovery but not the CMDB, stale records, duplicates, or missing ownership, lifecycle or criticality data.

How is this different from discovery?

Discovery finds assets; governance continuously checks that your model stays accurate over time and explains why it isn't.

Keep the CMDB honest, automatically.