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Batfish: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Batfish is an open-source tool for analysing and verifying network configurations. It finds errors in configurations and checks planned or existing network changes, so that problems are identified before they reach production. Network engineers use it to validate planned configurations in advance. The software is released under the Apache 2.0 licence and distributed as source code that organisations can run on their own infrastructure. The most recent release on GitHub dates from August 2026.

Batfish is maintained by Amazon Web Services (AWS) and has been an AWS-managed open-source project since the Intentionet team joined AWS. AWS is part of Amazon.com, Inc., a US company headquartered in Seattle, so the maintainer is subject to US law, including the CLOUD Act. Because the software runs on the organisation's own infrastructure and its source code is open, a European organisation can inspect the code and use it without a vendor-hosted service. The direction of the project is nonetheless set by a US group, which should be weighed in planning how the tool is maintained.

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Sovereignty score
69 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-210
    Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    No hosting in Europe (US)
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-390
    Self-hostable: encryption keys under your own control
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-680
    Open source: low switching costs
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-665
    Source code auditable, forkable and self-hostable

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 12, 2026
Headquarters
US (US)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision
Only for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified by hand
Sovereignty model
Open-source, distributedVerified by hand
Data hosting
USVerified by hand
Open-source
YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
NoVendor-stated
Category
Network & Monitoring
Type
Product
Website
batfish.org ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Batfish

The European alternatives to Batfish come from our knowledge base of over 7,800 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with Batfish

Batfish is headquartered in the United States. US vendors fall under the CLOUD Act and FISA 702: US authorities can compel access to data, even when that data sits in a European data centre. That is the core of the jurisdictional exposure in our model.

Batfish hosts data outside the EU (US). Personal data therefore leaves the EU, which requires a transfer mechanism under the GDPR and pulls the data residency score down.

Batfish is open source. You can audit the source code, self-host the software and keep the encryption keys under your own control. Switching is easier because data and software are not tied to a single party.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Batfish together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to Batfish?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Batfish include Akvorado, Centreon and Checkmk. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Batfish?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Batfish include Akvorado, Centreon, Checkmk, collectd and Healthchecks.io. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is Batfish GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Batfish is headquartered in US and hosts data in US. Its GDPR compliance is limited or unclear. For full EU data residency the EU alternatives on this page usually offer more certainty.

Details and sources

Verified by handHeadquarters, owner, hosting locations and licence have been checked by us against public sources. Free of charge and for every vendor, not a paid label. Nothing in this knowledge base is taken over automatically. Last checked on October 12, 2026.

Sources

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Compliance evidence

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