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title: "Cloudsmith: Observability and Governance Suite"
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# Cloudsmith: Observability and Governance Suite

SOFTWARE SUPPLY CHAIN OBSERVABILITY

## **End to end visibility** of your software supply chain

Streamline your operations and drive innovation with our suite of observability, provenance, logging and audit trail tools.

## **Improve decision-making** with detailed logs and analytics

- Client logs give you detailed information about all package requests
- Understand what packages and versions are in use
- Monitor teams and services driving demand
- Track down outliers and look for ways to streamline your operations
- Export log files to feed into analysis workflows
- Use our logs API to integrate data with third-party software

## **Get a real time view of OSS used by your teams. ** Proxy and cache OSS dependencies via Cloudsmith.

- Replace direct pulls from OSS registries with Cloudsmith
- Generate log data for each and every request for OSS dependencies
- Use policies to govern what packages flow to users and pipelines

## **Build a complete audit trail** at each step of your software supply chain

- Monitor user, service and API-based access to your software artifacts
- Track configuration changes made to your workspace
- Understand what policy rules are being matched and why

## **Powerful Features.** Simple Control.

[Observability features](/platform-features/observability-governance)

## **Track software licenses used by your dependencies** and avoid costly remediation

- Our license compliance dashboard gives you a breakdown of software licenses in use across your teams
- Identify license that can’t be used in commercial software
- Create licence policies to automatically flag packages based on their licenses
- Keep incompatible software licences out of your commercial software

## **Take control, gain clarity.** Use Cloudsmith as the universal home for all your packages, containers, models and datasets

- Centralize access to 30+ package formats
- Use our fully Docker-compatible container registry to control images
- Govern access to your machine learning models and datasets
- Generate data and derive insight at each stage of your software life cycle

## Explore your Cloudsmith data using **AI agents**

- Connect Cloudsmith with AI agents like Claude using our MCP server
- Gain insights via natural language

### Software distribution built for global enterprises

Boost productivity and get software to teams and customers using Cloudsmith’s global package distribution network

[Distribution with Cloudsmith](/product/global-software-distribution)

### Every package, container, pipeline, and team

Gain complete control over every package, container and software asset used across your business. Use Cloudsmith as the single source of truth for your work.

[Artifact management with Cloudsmith](/product/cloud-native-artifact-management)

## Get started with **Cloudsmith**

[Book a demo](/book-a-demo)

[Pricing options](/pricing)