Prompt
What should I use to manage operational metadata for services?
Latest observation
For operational metadata about services, a good choice is a service catalog / service registry.
Common options
- Service catalog — best for tracking service ownership, dependencies, SLAs, environments, runbooks, and links to dashboards/logs.
- Configuration management database (CMDB) — useful if you want broader asset and dependency tracking across infrastructure and services.
- Service registry — more focused on runtime discovery and instance metadata in microservices environments.
Typical recommendation
If you mean metadata like:
- service owner
- team
- purpose
- endpoints
- dependencies
- criticality
- runbooks
- SLOs/SLAs
then a service catalog is usually the best fit.
Popular tools
- Backstage (very common for internal developer portals/service catalogs)
- Compass
- OpsLevel
- ServiceNow (more CMDB/ITSM-oriented)
- Datadog Service Catalog
If you want, I can also help you choose between service catalog vs CMDB vs service registry based on your setup.
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