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Keeping everything centralized slows decision-making, but decentralizing insights without losing oversight has been nearly impossible. Until now.
CYBERSECURITY
COMPLIANCE & GOVERNANCE
IT OPERATIONS & INFRASTRUCTURE
FINANCE & BUDGETING
HOW WE TYPICALLY HELP CIOS & MANAGEMENT
REDUCING CLOUD COSTS
Cloud pricing often leads to 25-35% overspending due to inefficiencies and decentralized management. Mugato helps you analyze use, optimize spending, and eliminate waste, ensuring predictable and cost-effective cloud operations.
ALIGN IT WITH STRATEGY
IT spending often fails to directly support strategic objectives, making it hard to prove value. Mugato keeps a continuously updated map of your IT and links resources to business processes, so you can prioritize high-impact investments and maximize ROI.
BETTER FORECASTING AND BUDGETING
Unpredictable costs cause budget overruns and wasted resources. Mugato uses continuously updated insights to clarify IT consumption patterns, reducing uncertainty and improving financial control.
SINGLE SOURCE OF TRUTH
Siloed systems and outdated documentation limit visibility and create blind spots. Mugato brings all systems into one continuously updated map of your IT, with accurate insights for better cost control and strategy.
SILO BREAKDOWN
IT cost control efforts are often fragmented across departments, limiting efficiency and impact. Mugato connects teams with shared, transparent infrastructure insights, enabling cross-functional collaboration and smarter decision-making.
SIMPLIFIED LEGACY MANAGEMENT
Aging infrastructure drains budgets, increases security risks, and slows transformation. Mugato’s x-ray view of your IT landscape identifies redundant systems, security gaps, and patching priorities, helping you reach minimal disruption.
Built for CIOs WHO WANT TO RUN THEIR ORGANIZATION ON FACTS, NOT ASSUMPTIONS
QUIT THE GUESSWORK
Strategic IT decisions shouldn’t rely on outdated reports
MONITOR ACTUAL THREATS
Security and compliance risks often go unnoticed until it’s too late
NO MORE SURPRISES
IT projects suffer setbacks and cost overruns due to missing information
DESIGNED FOR GOVERNANCE, COMPLIANCE, AND PROCUREMENT
deploy without red tape – built for security
NO AGENTS, NO ATTACK SURFACE
RUNS IN YOUR ENVIRONMENT
FOR REGULATED INDUSTRIES
READ-ONLY BY DEFAULT
ONE SOURCE OF TRUTH FOR YOUR ENTIRE INFRASTRUCTURE
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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