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Capability Reporting

After onboarding, a device reports what it is — its compute resources and interfaces — so the platform knows what workloads it can run.

Who this is for: OT engineers connecting devices.

The device submits a manifest of kind DeviceCapabilitiesManifest, with:

  • apiVersion
  • kindDeviceCapabilitiesManifest
  • properties — the reported resources

Under properties, a device reports:

ResourceContents
cpunumber of cores (and, optionally, architecture)
memoryavailable memory
storageavailable storage
peripheralsoptional — list of attached peripherals
interfacesoptional — list of network/other interfaces

cpu, memory, and storage are always present; peripherals and interfaces are optional.

Capabilities are write-only: a device submits its manifest, but there is no endpoint to read capabilities back through the Margo API. Within Fleet Manager, the reported capabilities are surfaced on the Overview tab of the device detail page.

The platform uses reported capabilities to match applications to devices — for example, an application’s resource requirements and compatible-device list (see Applications) are checked against what a device reports here.