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⇱ Infrastructure

For AI agents: A markdown version of this page is available at https://docs.datadoghq.com/datadog_cloudcraft/overlays/infrastructure.md. A documentation index is available at /llms.txt.

Infrastructure

Overview

The Infrastructure overlay provides a broad overview of your cloud environment by grouping resources into a provider-specific hierarchy. This is the default view when opening a Cloudcraft diagram.

Use cases

The Infrastructure overlay is ideal for:

  • Generating architecture diagrams for documentation or presentations
  • Troubleshooting connectivity and resource relationships
  • Conducting high-level architecture reviews
  • Onboarding team members to your cloud environment

Resource grouping

Resources are grouped by a provider-specific hierarchy. Use the Group by controls at the top of the diagram to customize the grouping.

Interact with resources

Click any resource to open a side panel with additional details, including:

  • Resource type and name
  • Associated tags
  • Links to related Datadog views

Excluded components

To reduce visual clutter and highlight the most important parts of your architecture, the Infrastructure overlay excludes certain components by default:

AWS

  • EBS volumes
  • NAT Gateways
  • Transit Gateways

GCP

  • Compute Disk
  • GKE Cronjob
  • GKE Daemonset
  • GKE Deployment
  • GKE Job
  • GKE Pod
  • GKE Statefulset

These components are still part of your infrastructure but are hidden to keep the diagram focused on core resources.

Further reading