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Network Discovery

Discovery scans a network for monitorable hosts and turns what it finds into suggested checks — a faster start than adding checks one at a time. Find it under Organization → Discovery in the dashboard (/orgs/:org/organization/discovery).

Discovery is admin-only: starting a scan, promoting a discovered check, cancelling a scan and dismissing findings all require an organization admin (or owner). Other members can't reach the page at all — it lives under the Organization section, which is admin-only end to end.

Only one scan can run per organization at a time; starting a new one while another is still running or pending is rejected until you stop or wait for the first to finish.

Sources​

SourceScansRequires
LANOne or more CIDR ranges, e.g. 192.168.1.0/24Nothing extra
ContainersOne or more Docker-compatible endpoints (unix:///var/run/docker.sock or tcp://host:2375)Nothing extra
FreeboxThe devices known to a paired FreeboxA granted Freebox integration channel
KubernetesWorkloads and their endpoints in one or more namespacesA Kubernetes cluster connection

Freebox and Kubernetes only appear as selectable scan methods once a matching integration/connection exists.

LAN scan options​

Besides the CIDR list, an Advanced options section exposes ports (comma separated, defaults if left empty), per-probe timeout (e.g. 1s, 500ms, default 1s), and concurrency (default 64; the form limits it to 256, though this is a UI guardrail rather than a server-enforced ceiling). A range estimated at more than 4096 addresses shows a warning that the scan may take hours to days, since large ranges are split into bounded chunks that scan progressively.

Kubernetes scan options​

Pick a cluster connection and, optionally, a comma-separated list of namespaces — leave it empty to scan every namespace the connection can see.

Every scan requires confirming "I confirm I own or have permission to scan the listed network(s)" before it can start. Scans run on the in-process worker; on a multi-site deployment, discovery always runs from the server host, not from a remote agent.

Lifecycle​

A scan moves through pending → running → success or failed. While a LAN scan (the chunked kind) is running, a progress card shows completed vs. total chunks, plus running counts of groups and checks found so far, and it can be stopped — queued chunks are dropped before they start, and chunks already running are actively cancelled (the worker notices within its poll interval), not left to run to completion.

Findings and promoting checks​

Discovered hosts are grouped (by host, container, or Kubernetes workload) and each group carries source-specific hints: open ports and ICMP reachability for LAN/Freebox, image/state/health for containers, and kind, ready/desired replica counts, and reachable endpoints for Kubernetes.

Within a group you can select individual suggested checks, or select the whole group, then Promote selected to create them as real checks. A check that has already been promoted can't be selected or dismissed again. Dismiss removes a single suggested check, or an entire group, without promoting it — it will not resurface for this scan.

API​

Full endpoint reference, all under /api/v1/orgs/:org/discovery/...: GET /types, GET /scans, POST /scans, GET /scans/:jobUid, and POST /scans/:jobUid/cancel. The generated API reference documents every request and response schema under the Discovery tag.