Whether you're troubleshooting a performance alert, assessing the impact of a planned change, or auditing your security posture, understanding a resource’s context is essential. 

Cloud Diagrams’ Investigate feature delivers this visibility by visually isolating a resource and its dependencies in-diagram so you can:

• Trace root causes of cost spikes or performance bottlenecks.
• Analyze the impact of planned infrastructure modifications before you deploy.
• Audit security reachability to identify over-permissive paths between resources.

We’ve introduced two updates to improve root-cause and impact analysis in Cloud Diagrams with Investigate:

1. Extended blast radius: Previously, using Investigate would show you resources directly connected to your selection. You will now see second-order dependencies — connections of your selection’s connections — to visualize a wider impact area.
   
   Additionally, this view now maps potential reachability by analyzing your security and firewall rules, showing you which cloud resources can communicate with your target resource.
   
   
2. Search-to-investigate: Before, starting an investigation required manually locating and selecting a node on your diagram. Now, you can also enter the resource name, IP address, or any other unique identifier in the Investigate search bar to locate and isolate that resource and its dependencies.

To get started, open Cloud Diagrams and start exploring your cloud resources and their dependencies, read the documentation, or watch the short demo video here.