SERVICE NETWORK DISCOVERY

An automated service discovery and monitoring utility employs automatically generated policies (rules) for monitoring network health of a service based on network discovery using flow data derived from transmissions sent over segments between computing components defining the service. An interactive discovery application employs flow data based on transmissions associated with a service. Analysis of the flow data identifies associated components from inspection of the transmissions. Iterative component selection allows network traversal of components based on flow data of the segments used for providing the service. The interactive service discovery therefore identifies associated components (servers) and segments based on flow data, rather than topology, rendering the flow data to allow a user to make an informed selection of segments and components for inclusion in a service, and generates a set of policies (rules) based on the discovered service dependencies for monitoring various metrics for the components providing the monitored service.