The problem is not that you need another tool on top. The problem is that every control plane for Terraform has been built around the same flat state file. Everything downstream inherits that limitation.
Hundreds of states. No coherent view of what depends on what.
A single workspace lock serializes the whole team behind a 15 minute run.
Every plan refreshes the entire state just to change three resources.
You can see whether a run succeeded. You cannot query what you actually have.
Policy, cost, drift, and inventory each become another product to pay for and wire up.
Any change across states becomes a pipeline of wrappers, waits, and rollback risk.
These are not independent problems. They are symptoms of the same missing layer: a real data model underneath.
Terraform is a distributed systems problem pretending to be a JSON file.
Today's tools wrap the JSON file in a UI, a runner, and a pile of add-ons. Stategraph replaces the JSON file with a real database. Every capability below falls out of that single decision.
| File-based control planes | Stategraph | |
|---|---|---|
| State model | Flat state blob per workspace | Structured, normalized database |
| Lock model | Global workspace lock | Graph-scoped, resource-level |
| Plan scope | Refresh and plan the whole state | Operate on the affected subgraph |
| Visibility | Run history and a log viewer | SQL across every resource and state |
| Governance | Layered add-on products | Capabilities that emerge from the data model |
| Multi-state change | One workspace at a time | One atomic transaction across states |
Today's infrastructure teams stitch together half a dozen tools for plans, policy, cost, drift, inventory, and audit. Each one parses the same state file, badly. Stategraph collapses that sprawl into one control plane. Every capability below is the same database answering a different question.
Change three resources, touch three resources. Skip the 3,000 you did not touch. Disjoint subgraphs run in parallel without waiting on a global lock. No path globs, no change-detection config โ Stategraph reads the graph and runs only what your change actually reaches.
Plan and apply across states in one atomic transaction. Dependency-aware execution, run from PRs, without hand-built pipeline glue.
Resource-level RBAC. Blast-radius analysis on the actual graph, not a static file scan. See what a change reaches before it ships.
Compliance and internal policy run against real infrastructure data. Full attribution, full history, exportable evidence.
Cost attached to the resource graph, not a flat line item. See spend by change, by owner, by dependency, across every state.
SQL across every state, every resource, every environment. Gap analysis finds unmanaged resources and drift automatically.
None of these are add-ons. They are the data model doing its job. One surface. One pricing line. One place the data lives.
Stategraph is not a rewrite. It runs your existing Terraform with a smarter engine underneath. Same HCL, same providers, same workflow. Better execution, better visibility, starting on day one.
Terraform & OpenTofu
Same HCL, same providers, same CLI. Drop-in for the runtime you already use.
Reversible import
Ingest your existing .tfstate and export it back anytime. Never locked in.
Zero code changes
No HCL edits. No module rewrites. No provider swaps.
Same plan / apply
The workflow your team runs today.
Swap the backend
Point your backend block at Stategraph and ship.
Adopt at your pace. Move root modules over one at a time, keep the rest on your existing backend until you're ready. No big-bang migration, no painted corners โ stategraph states export returns any state to plain .tfstate whenever you want.
Same infrastructure. Same change. The data model does the work.
Stategraph is infrastructure software. It ships like infrastructure software. Enterprise control, security, and compliance teams get the deployment model they need, not the one the vendor prefers.
Fully managed SaaS. Free tier is shared-tenant; paid tiers run single-tenant with your own isolated instance and Postgres database. The fastest way to get started.
Start free โRun Stategraph in your VPC on your PostgreSQL. State never leaves your network. Full control over upgrades, secrets, and access.
Talk to sales โBring Your Own Cloud. We operate Stategraph inside your AWS, GCP, or Azure account with private connectivity. You own the data, we run the software.
Talk to sales โBring a state file. In under 30 minutes you will see graph-scoped plans, parallel applies, and queryable infrastructure running against your own resources, with the add-ons you no longer need.