Machine learning based application discovery method using networks flow information within a computing environment

A computer-implemented method for automatically discovering applications in an agentless plurality of diverse components in a computing environment said method comprising:

• automatically generating component flow data;
• automatically enriching said flow data with workload information pertaining to said plurality of diverse components to generate a connectivity graph wherein said connectivity graph includes one or more weakly connected components;
• generating applications spanning across said plurality of diverse components. providing said results for said automated analysis of said features of said components;
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• creating a software defined network based upon the application boundary endpoints, said computer-implemented method for automatically discovering applications in said agentless plurality of diverse components in said computing environment enabling automatic application discovery in said computing environment while reducing reliance upon an Information Technology (IT) administrator, to manually monitor and register said plurality of diverse components in said computing environment for applications monitoring and tracking.