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Create and manage Projects

Learn how to create Projects, add components, and organize your software inventory in SBOM Observer.

Projects are used to organize groups of components, so before creating a Project, it helps to understand the role of components in the data model.

Creating a Project and adding components

Go to Projects in the main menu and click Add Project.

Create the Project

Give your Project a meaningful name that reflects what you're monitoring (for example, "Customer Portal" or "Payment Services").

Add components

Click Add Component within your Project, search for the component name (like my-app), and select it.

Too find the name of components, use the Applications, Attestations or Components pages from the main menu.

Repeat this step for any additional components you want to include in the Project.

Using Projects for impact analysis

Impact analysis helps you understand if a vulnerability is affecting a project, and how it is exposed through dependency relationships.

To analyze impact for a Project:

  1. Click on the Project name
  2. Go to the Vulnerabilities tab
  3. Click Analyze Impact
  4. View the impact graph

The visualization shows you how vulnerabilities affect components within your Project, including dependency relationships.

Projects are most useful when you're tracking multiple related services or components that work together as a system. Create separate Projects for different platforms, teams, or business domains.

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Creating a Project and adding components
Navigate to Projects
Create the Project
Add components
Using Projects for impact analysis
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