Aviatrix today rolled out CoPilot, a multicloud visibility and troubleshooting tool, that runs on top of its cloud networking platform.

CoPilot supports Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, and will soon add Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. It uses intelligence and analytics from the Aviatrix cloud network platform combined with telemetry and network information gathered using native public cloud APIs to provide enterprises a view of their multicloud environments.

Customers’ No. 1 complaint with public cloud centers centers is around visibility, or lack thereof, said Aviatrix CEO Steve Mullaney. “They get no visibility from the public cloud because they treat it as a black box,” he said.

While enterprises love the simplicity and automation that comes with cloud computing, they don’t like giving up the visibility and control they have with on-premises data centers. This holds especially true for the networking and security teams, Mullaney added. “If I’m the networking guy, I’m the security guy, I’m getting fired if something goes wrong. I can’t just say, ‘well, I don’t have any visibility.’”

CoPilot gives customers this visibility by using Aviatrix’s existing networking and security service, and combining that with data from each cloud provider that Mullaney says “you can’t get anywhere else.” It includes features like dynamic topology mapping, network flow analysis and visualization, a network health dashboard, and a global traffic flow heat map to help troubleshoot.

Rod Stuhlmuller, VP of product marketing at Aviatrix, says security analysts particularly like this last feature. About a dozen of Aviatrix’s largest customers are already using CoPilot. On customer visits, “we would a lot of times be in with the cloud networking teams but the security teams are always in and out and they saw CoPilot running,” Stuhlmuller said.

At one particular customers’ facility, the security team noticed traffic flows coming from Panama, but the company didn’t do business in Panama. “They could drill down, and what they were seeing was scanning — hackers will try to scan and hit open ports,” he said. “So they could actually see what IP address in Panama were doing scans and trying to attack their networks, and they can then filter those malicious IPs so they’re not attacking anymore.”

CoPilot allows companies to analyze and resolve network and security problems much faster than they could before, Stuhlmuller added. “It depends on what people are doing, but we’ve heard 10 to 14 times faster.”