How We Collect Data
Our Data Lake collects data from your entire infrastructure and stores it in a unified format. Agentless probes and a lightweight agent work together to give you complete visibility — without disrupting your environment.
The Probe — Agentless Polling
Our primary data collection method requires zero installation on your devices. The probe connects, polls, and securely sends data to your dedicated cloud instance.
CLI commands & config collection
Routers, Switches, Linux
MIB polling & trap collection
Network Devices, Printers
Windows management queries
Windows Servers & Workstations
Authenticated API calls
Cloud Platforms, Firewalls
Agentless Discovery via Probe
The ITVA Probe is our primary data collection method. It connects to your network devices, servers, and infrastructure using standard management protocols. No software is installed on monitored devices. The probe polls your infrastructure on a schedule, collecting configuration, state, and performance data.
- SSH, SNMP, WMI, and REST API protocols
- Zero installation on monitored devices
- Configurable polling schedules
- No impact to production traffic
Secure Connection to Your Instance
Every probe establishes a secure, encrypted connection to your dedicated ITVA instance. Data is transmitted over TLS and stored in an isolated environment provisioned exclusively for your organization.
- Outbound-only — no inbound ports required
- Dedicated, isolated cloud instance per customer
- Data encrypted in transit and at rest
- Zero impact to production traffic
Your Dedicated Cloud Platform
Every ITVA customer gets an isolated cloud instance with a full-featured web application. All data from probes and agents flows into a single, unified platform.
Your Dedicated ITVA Instance
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Data Ingestion
ITVA Data Lake
Normalized, time-series data across all vendors and device types
Platform Services
Dedicated Cloud Instance
Every customer gets an isolated cloud environment provisioned exclusively for their organization. Your data never co-mingles with other tenants.
Unified Data Lake
All data collected by probes and agents is normalized into a unified format — regardless of vendor, protocol, or device type.
Web-Based Platform
A full-featured web application provides dashboards, alerting, topology maps, CMDB, and management tools — accessible from any browser.
Encrypted at Every Layer
Data is encrypted in transit from probes and agents, encrypted at rest in the data lake, and served over HTTPS to the web app.
Role-Based Access Control
Granular RBAC ensures each team member sees only the infrastructure and data relevant to their role and responsibilities.
The Agent — Lightweight APM
An optional lightweight agent installs on your systems to provide deep application monitoring and network flow visibility that agentless polling can't capture.
Application Performance Monitoring
The ITVA lightweight agent installs on your servers and monitors applications at the process level. It captures which processes are running, what ports they listen on, and how they consume resources — giving you deep APM visibility without heavy instrumentation.
- Process-level visibility per server
- Port and resource consumption tracking
- Minimal footprint — lightweight by design
- No application code changes required
Request Path
Network Traversal Mapping
Beyond process monitoring, the agent tracks how application traffic traverses your network. It maps which services talk to which endpoints, traces the network path each connection takes, and ties it all back to the infrastructure topology discovered by the probe.
- Full request path tracing across infrastructure
- Service-to-service dependency mapping
- Latency and throughput per connection
- Correlated with probe topology data
How It All Ties Together
From your devices to your dashboard — a unified pipeline that gives every team the visibility they need.
Probes & Agents Collect Data
Agentless probes poll your network devices, servers, and infrastructure using SSH, SNMP, WMI, and APIs. Lightweight agents on your servers capture process-level APM data and network flow traces. Together they cover every layer of your stack.
Agentless Probe
Lightweight Agent
Securely Streamed to Your Cloud Instance
All collected data streams into your dedicated, isolated cloud instance over encrypted TLS connections. No other customer can access your environment — it's fully provisioned and isolated for your organization alone.
Tenant Isolation
Data Lake Normalizes Everything
The ITVA Data Lake ingests vendor-specific output from Cisco, Juniper, Palo Alto, Windows, Linux, and more — then normalizes it into a single unified format. No more translating between vendor CLIs or juggling incompatible data models.
Vendor-Specific Input
Unified ITVA Format
Time-Series Storage for Every Data Point
Every configuration, metric, and state change is stored with timestamps. Compare any data point against its history to spot trends, detect anomalies, and pinpoint exactly when something changed.
Config Change Log
Platform Delivers Unified Visibility
Dashboards, topology maps, alerting, CMDB, AI automation, and reporting — all powered by the same normalized data lake. Every team gets a single pane of glass scoped to their role and responsibilities.