Automatic entity control in a machine data driven service monitoring system

A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform the steps of:

• retrieving a set of item definitions stored to a data store, each item definition describing an item comprising an entity or an entity relationship within a technology environment;
• generating a set of item search results produced by a discovery search for items within the technology environment;
• determining a set of changed items between the set of item definitions and the set of item search results;
• and
• updating the set of item definitions stored to the data store based on the set of changed items.

A system, comprising:

• a memory that includes an update module;
• and
• a processor that is coupled to the memory and, when executing the update module, performs the steps of:
• retrieving a set of item definitions stored to a data store, each item definition describing an item comprising an entity or an entity relationship within a technology environment;
• generating a set of item search results produced by a discovery search for items within the technology environment;
• determining a set of changed items between the set of item definitions and the set of item search results;
• and
• updating the set of item definitions stored to the data store based on the set of changed items.