# Using Backstage's C4 Model adaptation to visualize software

DevFeed: [Using Backstage's C4 Model adaptation to visualize software](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/using-backstage-s-c4-model-adaptation-to-visualize-software-12305.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.port.io/blog/using-backstages-c4-model-adaptation-to-visualize-software-creating-a-software-catalog-in-port>)

Author: Daniel Sinai

Published: 2026-07-30T10:43:36Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Developer Experience & Platform Engineering Blog | Port](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/developer-experience-platform-engineering-blog-port.md>)

Topics: [Backstage](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/backstage.md>), [internal developer portal](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/internal-developer-portal.md>), [Software](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software.md>), [Architecture & Design](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/architecture-design.md>), [Microservices](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/microservices.md>), [API](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/api.md>)

Tags: [api](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api.md>), [architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/architecture.md>), [backstage](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/backstage.md>), [internal-developer-portal](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/internal-developer-portal.md>), [microservices](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/microservices.md>), [software](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software.md>), [software-catalog](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software-catalog.md>)

## AI overview

The article explains how Backstage's adaptation of the C4 model can visualize software through a software catalog. It describes cataloging microservices, deployment resources, deployments, relationships, dependencies, ownership, and lifecycles, and presents a SaaS-based internal developer portal as an alternative implementation approach.

## Source excerpt

Using Backstage's C4 Model Adaptation to Visualize Software - Creating a Software Catalog in Port. Read more here.