know your it before you change it
Every change to your IT depends on knowing what you have and how it all connects. Mugato observes how your IT actually runs and keeps the full history, with nothing installed on a single server. So you can see what a change will touch before you make it, and plan from facts instead of guesswork.



Nobody ever had a way to see how the pieces fit together
The answer to "what depends on this?" has always lived in a few people's heads, a CMDB nobody fully trusts and documents from the last project. That gap has never been any team's fault. The tools to see it simply didn't exist.
It matters more now. People can work around a picture that's 70% right. Software agents can't. They act on whatever they're given, which means the picture has to be right before anyone, or anything, moves.
An alien lands on Earth for one second, sees a single black sheep and reports a planet of black sheep. A CMDB export, a discovery run and a workshop are snapshots in the same way, so none of them can tell you what's normal, what's rare or what stopped. Mugato keeps every observation, so you can pick any two moments and see exactly what changed.
Know what's normal, what's rare and what stopped
Most tools show you one moment. Someone looks, writes down what they find and the picture starts aging that same day.
Mugato watches continuously and keeps every observation. That's how you tell what's normal from what's rare, and how you know something stopped rather than just wasn't running when you looked. You can compare any two dates and see exactly what changed.
See what a change will touch
Mugato groups your servers into the application services your business actually runs, and keeps that map current on its own. Select anything and you see what sits above it, what sits below it and which services are affected. Change gets faster, safer and cheaper, because the plan starts from how things really connect.
Migrations, exits and mergers
You see which servers have to move in the same wave, before the change window opens. Once your application services are named, a full data center exit plan comes from a single question. That takes the place of the interview rounds and workshops a migration usually starts with.
Audits, NIS2 and DORA
Regulators ask for an asset inventory, documented dependencies between systems and evidence of what breaks when something fails. Mugato produces all three from observation rather than from interviews. Because the history is kept, you can show an auditor what the estate looked like on the date they ask about.
Incidents and surprises
When something breaks, the map shows what else sits on the path, so your team starts from the dependency chain. Mugato learns what normal looks like for your own estate, so what gets flagged is what's genuinely unusual. Incidents close themselves when the connection comes back.
200+ acquisitions, one IT landscape
You need to know what's happening before you start changing, and Mugato gives you that X-ray picture into your infrastructure and does it non-intrusively.
Henrik AmsinckGroup CIO
Henrik runs IT for a group built from more than 200 acquisitions. He talks about what changed once his team could see the whole landscape, and what it was worth.
Documentation was out of date or missing, so nobody could say with confidence what depended on what. After two weeks of collection Henrik's team saw the application landscape mapped into clusters of servers for the first time, which is what let them move out of their legacy domains in an orderly way.
Ask your IT. Or let your agents ask it.
Stop asking colleagues, scheduling workshops and hunting through old documents. Ask your IT itself, in plain language, for today or for any day in the past.
Describe what you want to see and keep it as your own dashboard. A migration lead and an auditor need different views of the same estate, and neither has to wait for someone to build one.
Set a question to run on a schedule, so the check somebody used to do by hand lands in your inbox every Monday instead.
Point your own agents at the same observed facts your people use. Every answer comes from what was collected, so the same question gets the same answer, and that's what makes it safe for an agent to act on.
See one week of IT questions answered
Connect your own AI assistant to Mugato and ask your IT in plain language. Follow one week of everyday questions, from expiring certificates to unsupported operating systems to what a change will touch, each answered from what Mugato has actually observed.
A week of everyday questions, asked in plain language. You see the nine certificates expiring within 60 days and the servers that depend on each, and the 196 of 997 servers still running an unsupported operating system. The last step saves the week's questions to run every Monday, reporting only what changed.
From install to answers in about two weeks
One read-only virtual machine inside your network, nothing installed on any server and no rollout project. Your security team inspects everything collected before it leaves.
Collect
Mugato finds every server, then uses the same administrative interfaces your administrators already use to see what runs on each one and what it talks to. Collected continuously, synchronized every 30 minutes, with a full inventory daily.
Map
Our behavioral analytics engine reads how your servers actually communicate and groups them into the application services your business runs, with no manual mapping. It also shows what each server talks to and what it depends on. The grouping reaches 97% confidence after about two weeks.
Act
Plan the migration wave, answer the auditor, keep ITSM and your EA tools current, or point your own AI agent at the same read-only record. Ask a question in plain language and keep the answer as your view.
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 5 consecutive years and counting.
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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