In dynamic environments (cloud, Kubernetes), entities are constantly created and destroyed. ITSI supports entity lifecycle management through automated discovery, aging, and retirement policies. Entities that stop reporting data can be automatically marked as inactive or retired after a configurable timeout.
Entity relationship mapping allows you to define dependencies between entities (e.g., a VM runs on a physical host, an application runs on a VM). When the physical host fails, ITSI can trace the impact through the entity dependency chain to all affected VMs and applications above it.