If you work with Aviatrix Distributed Cloud Firewall, you know CoPilot is the official UI. There are things it doesn’t do, or doesn’t do well enough when you’re deep in a policy audit, trying to figure out why traffic is behaving the way it is, or explaining your segmentation posture to someone who didn’t design it.
So I built something. It’s called DCF Visualizer, it lives at https://dcf-visualizer.vercel.app/, and it’s completely unofficial. No Aviatrix affiliation, no support contract, just a tool I put together to fill the gaps I kept running into.
What it does
The core is a policy matrix: rows are source SmartGroups, columns are destinations. Each cell shows the policies that match that pair. You can click into a cell to view, create, edit, or delete policies without losing that context.
There’s also a graph view. Instead of a flat circular layout, it places SmartGroups into trust zones based on group names and criteria: Internet at the top, DMZ, app tier, data tier. Policies are directed edges. If a connection goes upward (data tier to internet, say), it looks visually wrong. That’s on purpose. The layout surfaces posture issues without you having to hunt for them.
Traffic simulator: type in a source/destination IP and see which policy would match, with optional FQDN, threat group, and geo overrides
- Live controller import: pulls SmartGroups and policies from your Aviatrix controller via the 8.x API
- Terraform HCL import and export (module style or raw resources)
- Policy evaluator with 29 checks: shadowing, missing deny-all, overly permissive rules, L4/L7 interaction issues
- AI integration: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Bedrock, Ollama, LM Studio
One thing worth saying This is not an Aviatrix product. Not affiliated, not supported. It doesn’t replace CoPilot. I built it for myself and figured someone else running DCF might find it useful.
