Documentation
Cartography is a Python tool that pulls infrastructure assets and their relationships into a Neo4j graph database.
What it connects: AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, GitHub, Okta, Entra ID, CrowdStrike, and 30+ more platforms.
Questions it answers:
- Which identities have access to which datastores? How about across multiple tenants, or providers?
- Am I affected by any critical vulnerabilities or compromised software packages?
- What are the network paths in and out of my environment?
- Which compute instances are exposed to the internet?
- What AI agents are running in production, and what permissions do they have?
Quick Start
Install Cartography
pip install cartography
Install cartography[neo4j-rust] instead to swap in Neo4j's Rust Bolt codec, which cuts sync time by roughly 20-30%. See Faster Neo4j driver.
Start Neo4j database
docker run -d --publish=7474:7474 --publish=7687:7687 -v data:/data --env=NEO4J_AUTH=none neo4j:5-community
Confirm that http://localhost:7474 is up.
Sync your first data source (AWS example)
Ensure your AWS credentials and default region are configured (e.g. via AWS_PROFILE, AWS_DEFAULT_REGION, or ~/.aws/config). See AWS credentials docs for reference.
Run Cartography:
cartography --neo4j-uri bolt://localhost:7687 --selected-modules aws
See the full install guide for other platforms.
Query the graph
Open http://localhost:7474 and try:
// Find unencrypted RDS instances by account
MATCH (a:AWSAccount)-[:RESOURCE]->(rds:AWSRDSInstance{storage_encrypted:false})
RETURN a.name, rds.id
// Find EC2 instances exposed to the internet
MATCH (instance:AWSEC2Instance{exposed_internet: true})
RETURN instance.instanceid, instance.publicdnsname
See the querying tutorial and data schema for more use-cases.
Run security rules
Once Cartography has populated the reachable Neo4j graph, list, inspect, and run
security rules. This quickstart uses the no-auth Neo4j container started above,
so no password is required:
cartography-rules list
cartography-rules list object_storage_public
cartography-rules run object_storage_public
For authenticated Neo4j, set NEO4J_PASSWORD or use one of the other secure
password options in the rules docs.
Supported platforms
- Airbyte - Organization, Workspace, User, Source, Destination, Connection, Tag, Stream
- Amazon Web Services - ACM, API Gateway, Bedrock, CloudWatch, CodeBuild, Config, Cognito, EC2, ECS, ECR (including multi-arch images, image layers, and attestations), EFS, Elasticsearch, Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), DynamoDB, Glue, GuardDuty, IAM, Inspector, KMS, Lambda, RDS, Redshift, Route53, S3, SageMaker, Secrets Manager(Secret Versions), Security Hub, SNS, SQS, SSM, STS, Tags
- AIBOM - AI component detections linked to ECR images
- Anthropic - Organization, ApiKey, User, Workspace
- BigFix - Computers
- Cloudflare - Account, Role, Member, Zone, DNSRecord
- Crowdstrike Falcon - Hosts, Spotlight vulnerabilities, CVEs
- DigitalOcean
- Duo - Users, Groups, Endpoints
- GitHub - repos, branches, users, teams, dependency graph manifests, dependencies, organization and repository security settings, verified domains, installed GitHub Apps, webhooks
- Google Cloud Platform - Artifact Registry, Bigtable, Cloud Functions, Cloud Resource Manager, Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, Compute including SSL policies and target proxies, DNS, IAM, KMS, Secret Manager, Storage, Google Kubernetes Engine, Vertex AI
Community
Contributing
Thank you for considering contributing to Cartography!
All contributors and participants must follow the CNCF Code of Conduct.
Submit a GitHub issue to report a bug or request a new feature. Larger discussions happen in GitHub Discussions.
Read CONTRIBUTING.md for the issue workflow, development
setup, tests, DCO sign-off requirement, and pull request expectations. You do
not need an issue assignment or maintainer permission before starting work.
Who uses Cartography?
- Lyft
- Thought Machine
- MessageBird
- Cloudanix
- Corelight
- SubImage
- Superhuman
- Hadrian
- {Your company here} :-)
If your organization uses Cartography, please file a PR and update this list. Say hi on Slack too!
License
This project is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License.
Cartography is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation sandbox project.
