About CAST Imaging

Key concepts and terms used across all CAST Imaging documentation.

This section defines the core concepts behind CAST Imaging. You do not need to read it from start to finish. Come here when you meet a term you do not recognize in a task page.

What is CAST Imaging?

A short overview of CAST Imaging and what it does.

The CAST Imaging Stack

The four components that work together to produce and display application graphs.

Applications and Snapshots

What an application and a snapshot are in CAST Imaging.

Objects, Nodes, and Links

The basic building blocks of a CAST Imaging graph.

Scopes

The nine ways to look at an application in CAST Imaging.

Aggregation Levels

How CAST Imaging organizes objects into levels from overview to detail.

Call Graphs

The three ways CAST Imaging can display a transaction or data call graph.

Tags and Annotations

How to label and document objects in CAST Imaging.

Modules and Custom Aggregation

The difference between CAST-computed modules and user-defined groupings.

Tenants and Roles

How access control works in CAST Imaging.