Ingestion Layer

Taldian

Taldian is an infrastructure data ingestion and normalisation service. It collects data via 40+ integrations across cloud, network, identity, and enterprise systems, and runs either as a standalone CMDB or as an optional feeder that delivers normalised records to the AuditToolkit platform.

v1.2.6 Independent product
Licensing: Taldian is an independent product. It is not included in the AuditToolkit Platform licence and is not covered by a Platform subscription. Taldian is governed by Business Source Licence (BSL) 1.1 terms, with workspace-based limits rather than the Platform host-capacity model, and with separate managed-service and OEM provisions in its EULA.

Capabilities

Key Features

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Taldian

Multi-platform infrastructure data ingestion and normalisation

  • ✓40+ integrations across cloud, network, identity, and enterprise systems
  • ✓Agents for Windows (.NET 8), Linux (Go), macOS, BSD, and containers
  • ✓Dual-mode operation: standalone CMDB or integrated feeder to the core platform
  • ✓Canonical payload contract (schema_version 2026.05.1) for normalised asset and vulnerability records
  • ✓Dead-letter queue with retry and backoff for reliable delivery
  • ✓SSO claim and attribute mapping for enterprise identity integration
  • ✓Full tenant and workspace governance model

Data Flow

How Taldian collects data

The data collector ingests structured data from external APIs and agent-based collection, normalising results into a canonical schema for the central platform or standalone CMDB operation.

How Taldian collects Taldian collects through external management APIs and the fleet agent, normalising both into a structured data store. Taldian COLLECTION External APIs Fleet Agent Structured Data Store

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