For IT leaders who can’t afford surprises
the shape
of your it
Mugato is the always-current map of your IT estate. It works out every application and dependency from how your servers talk, and keeps the history. So you know what a change will hit before you make it, and every AI answer starts from facts.



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A Smarter, more effortless way to manage it infrastructure
Reveal your IT architecture in real time with complete discovery, continuous collection, fully automated SDM and prescriptive guidance.
mugato's five CORE CAPABILITIES
Discover everything
Mugato's agentless discovery automatically identifies everything in your IT environment. Catalog every IT, IoT, OT, and public cloud device, application and interaction: managed, unmanaged, or shadow. Eliminate dangerous blind spots and fix potential issues before they become real problems.
Continuous collection of relations, processes & resource use
Mugato not only detects that two devices are communicating, we also deliver the frequency and volume. Mugato automatically detects whether it’s a rare ephemeral or high-transactional continuous connection. We break data down into individual protocols, each with minute-granularity temporal datasets, enabling before-and-after insights for change tracking, establishment of baselines, and unique 7-dimensional rightsizing.
Next-generation dependency mapping
Mugato starts where traditional dependency mapping stops. We provide full visibility into your business processes and software across all systems. Our industry-leading process mining technology uncovers this visibility.
Our end-to-end AI neural core defines the scope of application services through behavioral analytics. It uses causal and predictive AI to analyze the communication patterns that form the connective tissue of your enterprise.
Mugato’s behavioral approach eliminates the need for a library or dictionary list of known applications. We work independently of whether software is off-the-shelf, in-house custom code, or third-party custom software.
We don’t use static tags or fixed stacks and groups that decay in an ever-changing IT world. Mugato continuously updates and enriches your data and then feeds your CMDB or any other operational system.
Fully automated service dependency mapping
Mugato automatically clusters application services into business services through service dependency mapping (SDM). We deliver the missing piece that connects the dots between observability and enterprise architecture tools. Observability tools cluster devices and software through dependency mapping (DM), usually in one IT silo. Enterprise architecture tools diagram business capabilities, usually in another IT silo.
True SDM is not just an add-on to a CMDB, it’s a capability with standalone business value, including improved visibility, faster incident handling, smarter change management, stronger security and resilience, and reduced risk.
Gartner emphasizes that every IT organization should have SDM because it enhances IT service management, supports innovation and transformation programs, and integrates with existing environments to create additional value.
SDM serves as a foundational capability for modern IT operations. It improves agility, resilience, and decision-making, while leaving static dependency mapping behind.
Decision intelligence for planning & execution
Mugato’s fully automated decision intelligence platform generates plans with sequences of events to support, automate, and augment decision-making by humans or machines.
We deliver prescriptive guidance that tells you exactly what to do, when, and in what order. You no longer need to guess which systems can be moved together or which changes might cause disruption. Mugato’s transformation waves generate actionable step-by-step instructions powered by the composition of data, analytics, knowledge, and AI techniques.
We provide collaborative capabilities for decision modeling, whether you’re doing major application upgrades, data center exits, disaster recovery plans with minimally viable company operations, cloud transformations, or any other plan requiring impact analysis before changes are made.
Mugato helps you identify critical paths and dependencies to avoid cascading failures.
The backbone for strategic decisions
increase efficiency
reduce costs
massively de-risk
results in two weeks
Highly granulated temporal data combined with behavioral analytics paints a much more accurate picture than any other tool or human process based on whiteboard workshops and tribal knowledge ever will.
With extremely rich visual mapping, Mugato delivers intuitive interfaces that show how everything connects, giving you a clear, actionable understanding of your IT estate. SDM turns your IT environment from a black box into a transparent, navigable map, boosting agility, resilience, and confidence across operations.
current tools vs mugato
CURRENT BEST-OF-BREED OBSERVABILITY TOOLS
Essentially just asset trackers or topology viewers. They only tell you:
Server A connects to server B on port 80
Mugato
With Mugato, you get robust service dependency mapping that combines IT observability with enterprise architecture. Mugato tells you:
Your order processing system (15 servers) talks to the payment gateway every 2.3 seconds, peaked at 3 a.m., has been doing this for 6 months, costs $45K/month, has 3 zombie servers that haven’t processed anything in the past 90 days except burning cash, and is exposed to the internet through an undocumented connection that appeared last Tuesday.
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it's not magic – it's science
zero agents
Nothing installed on endpoints, eliminating security risks
Zero manual tasks
Fully automated mapping of servers into application services
zero touch
No measurable impact on network performance
Frequently asked questions
about Mugato
What is Mugato?
Mugato is an agentless IT infrastructure discovery and service dependency mapping platform. It discovers every server, application, process and dependency in your environment, groups them into business application services and keeps that map current without installing software on any endpoint. Everything it observes is kept as history at minute-level granularity, so you can see how your environment looked at any point in time. Mugato was founded by Michael Frandsen, a 10-time Microsoft MVP, and is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark.
How does Mugato work without agents?
Mugato runs as a single collector virtual machine (VM) inside your environment. It reads meta-information through the interfaces your administrators already use: Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) on Windows and SSH on Linux and Unix. Collection is read-only, and the collector only connects outbound to your dedicated Azure backend. Nothing is installed on any endpoint, and deleting the VM removes every trace of Mugato.
What is service dependency mapping?
Service dependency mapping groups infrastructure into the application services it supports, maps the dependencies between those services and links them to business capabilities. Dependency mapping alone shows that server A talks to server B. Service dependency mapping shows, for example, that the 27 servers behind your ERP rely on a shared database cluster and which business services stop if it fails. Mugato delivers both from the same collection.
How does Mugato show the blast radius of a change or outage?
Mugato shows the blast radius of any server, database or application service: every component upstream and downstream of it, and the business application services that would be affected if it changes or fails. Line thickness shows how tightly components are coupled, based on how often and how much they communicate, so you can see what must change or move together. When a shared component fails, Mugato identifies every affected service from the dependency map, turning dozens of parallel investigations into one. Affected cause analysis goes further: start from any finding, such as a misconfigured server, and see everywhere else the same condition exists.
How is Mugato different from IT asset management and discovery tools?
Asset management and discovery tools tell you what you have. Mugato also shows what each server does and what depends on it. It observes every running process and connection, groups servers into application services automatically and updates that map. Because it uses no agents and no fingerprint library, custom software and undocumented dependencies are included from the start.
What are Mugato's temporal datasets?
Mugato records your infrastructure as a timeline, not a snapshot. Every process, connection and utilization reading is kept at minute-level granularity and, by default, never aggregated or deleted, so you can rewind to any moment and compare any two points in time. Mugato also records when an expected connection didn't happen, which is how it spots services that quietly disappear. Teams use the history to verify changes within minutes, trace incidents back to the first warning sign, identify patient zero after a security breach and prove a server or firewall rule hasn't been used in 12 months.
Is agentless collection a security risk?
No. Mugato uses the administrative interfaces your teams already use, read-only, so no new software or attack surface is added to any endpoint. Its footprint is one hardened collector VM you control. The collector accepts no inbound connections, keeps credentials locally in Windows Credential Manager and sends only meta-information to a dedicated single-tenant Azure backend. Annual independent penetration tests have come back clean for five consecutive years.
How long does it take to implement Mugato?
Mugato's application-service map reaches 97% confidence about two weeks after installation. Preparation takes your teams roughly 3.5 hours over one week, followed by a guided installation session. The first inventory arrives within 24 hours and dependencies over the next two days. The remaining 3% is flagged for your team to verify, and the only other manual step is naming application services, which takes about two hours per 500 to 800 servers.
Does Mugato integrate with ServiceNow and enterprise architecture tools?
Yes. Mugato populates configuration management databases (CMDBs) like ServiceNow and Halo ITSM, including application services and dependencies. Mugato also integrates with enterprise architecture tools such as LeanIX, BI platforms such as Power BI and anything that reads SQL.
Can I connect Mugato to AI assistants like Claude, ChatGPT or Copilot?
Yes. Mugato's Model Context Protocol (MCP) server connects any MCP-capable assistant to your own Mugato meta-information. Access is read-only and runs from inside your dedicated backend. The assistant handles language and presentation while Mugato supplies measured facts, so the same question asked in different words returns the same answer. Access is controlled by single sign-on in your own identity tenant.
How is Mugato licensed?
Mugato is licensed as a subscription based on the servers it collects from: physical servers, virtual machines, cloud IaaS instances and Kubernetes namespaces.
Who uses Mugato?
More than 200 enterprises use Mugato, including Fortune 500 companies. Companies using Mugato include Novo Nordisk, Allianz, DP World, Falck and DFDS. Most are in regulated industries: financial services, pharmaceuticals and life sciences, energy and critical infrastructure, telecommunications, manufacturing, defense and the public sector. Reference calls are available on request.
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