Service Dependency Map
See what breaks when something breaks.
What changes when you build this
The gaps you're living with today,
and what this tool fixes.
Problems
- Engineers check 4+ dashboards during an incident to figure out which upstream service caused the cascade
- On-call responders waste 15+ minutes identifying the blast radius because dependency info lives in outdated Confluence pages
- Tier-1 services depend on untracked internal APIs that nobody realizes are critical until they fail
- Ownership gaps surface at 2 AM when the paged engineer says "that's not my service"
- Post-incident reviews reveal the same missing dependency context every time, but nothing gets updated
Solutions
- One view maps every service with its upstream and downstream dependencies, updated from live infrastructure data
- Blast radius is visible immediately — click a service, see everything it affects
- Service tiers enforce priority so Tier-1 dependencies on unclassified services get flagged automatically
- Every service has a registered owner, linked to on-call rotation, so incidents route to the right person
- Dependency data stays current because it pulls from your service registry instead of a wiki page
What the data model looks like
Refine generates this table structure from your
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Mistakes to avoid
These are the failure patterns teams hit most often
when building this.
Stale dependency data from manual entryFix: Pull dependencies from live service discovery or API gateway configs instead of relying on engineers to update a spreadsheet.
Stale dependency data from manual entry
Fix:Pull dependencies from live service discovery or API gateway configs instead of relying on engineers to update a spreadsheet.
Flat service list with no tier distinctionFix: Assign tiers on import and add a validation rule that blocks saving a service without a tier classification.
Flat service list with no tier distinction
Fix:Assign tiers on import and add a validation rule that blocks saving a service without a tier classification.
Orphaned services with no ownerFix: Flag services missing an owner field on a weekly digest and block tier promotion until ownership is assigned.
Orphaned services with no owner
Fix:Flag services missing an owner field on a weekly digest and block tier promotion until ownership is assigned.
Circular dependencies hidden in the graphFix: Run a cycle detection query on the dependency table and surface circular chains as warnings in the dashboard.
Circular dependencies hidden in the graph
Fix:Run a cycle detection query on the dependency table and surface circular chains as warnings in the dashboard.
Downstream impact not visible during incidentsFix: Build a recursive query that walks the dependency tree from any service and displays the full blast radius in one click.
Downstream impact not visible during incidents
Fix:Build a recursive query that walks the dependency tree from any service and displays the full blast radius in one click.