No. 6 of 36 ·Application Dependency Mapping Software

Cartography

Windows · Mac · Linux · Self-hosted

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Three barsScore 6.5

Free tierA free tier is on its own pricing page
Open codeNo open-source code on record
Runs widely3 of 6 device platforms
DocumentedPlans, terms and facts published

Cartography is ranked #6 of 36 in application dependency mapping software on Freedom251. It runs on Linux, macOS, Self-hosted, Windows. There is a free plan.

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Cartography Free Open-source infrastructure mapping tool cartography.dev · 4 Oct 2026

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Deployment model: self_hosted

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The record

Purpose: Cartography is an open-source tool for mapping infrastructure assets and their relationships in a Neo4j graph database.
Security questions: It helps investigate identity access to datastores, critical vulnerabilities, network paths, internet-exposed compute, and production AI agents and their permissions.
Project status: The project says it was created at Lyft and is now a CNCF Sandbox project.
Integrations: The project documentation lists integrations including AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, GitHub, Okta, Entra ID, CrowdStrike, and more than 30 other platforms.
Security rules: Cartography Rules provides predefined and custom security queries for identifying potential attack surfaces and security gaps in a populated graph.
Deployment: The install guide supports Docker Compose or native installation and requires a reachable Neo4j database.
Operating systems: The native install guide says Cartography should work on Linux, Mac, and Windows, while noting Windows has not been tested much.
Runtime requirements: The install guide specifies Python 3.13 and Neo4j 5.23 or higher; Python 3.11 and 3.12 may work but are not tested, and Python 3.10 and older are unsupported.
API permissions: For GitHub, Cartography supports fine-grained personal access tokens, classic personal access tokens, and GitHub Apps, with optional permissions allowing unavailable data to be skipped while ingestion continues.
Secret handling: The GitHub module reads secret metadata but never loads secret values.
Integration limit: The Orca Security module requires organization-wide read access; partial account, business-unit, or asset access is unsupported.
Support and community: The project directs bug reports and feature requests to GitHub Issues, broader discussions to GitHub Discussions, and community participation to the CNCF Slack #cartography channel.
License: The project repository states that Cartography is licensed under Apache 2.0.
Price from: Free

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Sources

cartography.dev· checked 4 Oct 2026
github.com/cartography-cncf/cartography· checked 4 Oct 2026
docs.cartography.dev/usage/rules.html· checked 4 Oct 2026
docs.cartography.dev/install.html· checked 4 Oct 2026
docs.cartography.dev/modules/github/config.html· checked 4 Oct 2026
docs.cartography.dev/modules/orca/config.html· checked 4 Oct 2026