As organizations increasingly rely on SaaS applications, web platforms, and tools, the number of URLs accessed across enterprise environments has grown exponentially. From business-critical applications to shadow IT, this expansion introduces challenges around visibility, governance, and compliance. Regulations and internal governance policies now demand clear tracking of application usage, data access points, and ownership across digital assets.
Leveraging URL Discovery, enterprises can gain comprehensive visibility into all accessed web endpoints across their environment. Powered by ITOM Discovery and agent-based telemetry (ACC), this capability systematically captures and analyzes URL activity, enabling organizations to identify sanctioned and unsanctioned applications, usage, and establish governance controls. This visibility is critical for driving security posture improvements, ensuring compliance, and enabling data-driven decision-making across IT and business teams.
URL Onboarding
Choose between two modes — Broad, which captures all accessed URLs for full visibility, or Targeted, which tracks a defined list of URLs enriched with metadata like category, product, publisher, and application service linkage.
Each monitored URL surfaces Total Usage and Last Accessed metrics, with data retained for up to 30 days.
Insights Captured:
URL Discovery Insights provides visibility into URL access patterns across managed endpoints over the last 24 hours, with data retained for up to 30 days.
The insights page surfaces two visualizations — a bar chart of the top 5 most-visited URLs by hit count, and a donut chart breaking down targeted URL visits by category. A detailed URL table lists each monitored URL with number of visits, last accessed timestamp, total usage in hours, and category tag.
Drive SAM Outcomes
For Software Asset Management, URL Discovery is a foundational data source. By surfacing real application usage patterns, it enables SAM teams to reconcile licenses against actual consumption, eliminate shelfware, rightsize SaaS subscriptions, and build accurate software catalogs — driving measurable cost optimization across the application portfolio.
Beyond cost, URL Discovery supports Technology Lifecycle Management by providing the usage intelligence needed to make informed decisions about application renewals, retirements, and consolidations. Teams gain a clear picture of which tools are actively used, by whom, and how often — turning endpoint telemetry into actionable lifecycle signals.
New
Application Service and SAM Product are now optional when monitoring URLs, so you can track URLs and domains that aren't tied to a specific service or product.
- Create, bulk-upload, and monitor without a service or product: Add URLs individually or through bulk upload and monitor them for URL Discovery and Broad URL Discovery without associating an Application Service or SAM Product. URLs with no Service or Product are tracked as standalone domains.
- URL-only metric collection: Per-domain usage metrics are collected through the browser extension and data model updates, even when no Service or Product is mapped.
Plugin
- com.snc.samp
Application
- Agent Client Collector Visibility Content v1.8.0
- Discovery Admin Workspace v1.14.0