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Prowler is an Open Source security tool to perform AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and Kubernetes security best practices assessments, audits, incident response, continuous monitoring, hardening and forensics readiness, and also remediations! We have Prowler CLI (Command Line Interface) that we call Prowler Open Source and a service on top of it that we call Prowler Cloud.
Prowler App is a web application that allows you to run Prowler in your cloud provider accounts and visualize the results in a user-friendly interface.
More details at Prowler App Documentation
prowler <provider>
prowler dashboard
It contains hundreds of controls covering CIS, NIST 800, NIST CSF, CISA, RBI, FedRAMP, PCI-DSS, GDPR, HIPAA, FFIEC, SOC2, GXP, AWS Well-Architected Framework Security Pillar, AWS Foundational Technical Review (FTR), ENS (Spanish National Security Scheme) and your custom security frameworks.
| Provider | Checks | Services | Compliance Frameworks | Categories |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AWS | 561 | 81 -> prowler aws --list-services |
30 -> prowler aws --list-compliance |
9 -> prowler aws --list-categories |
| GCP | 77 | 13 -> prowler gcp --list-services |
3 -> prowler gcp --list-compliance |
2 -> prowler gcp --list-categories |
| Azure | 139 | 18 -> prowler azure --list-services |
4 -> prowler azure --list-compliance |
2 -> prowler azure --list-categories |
| Kubernetes | 83 | 7 -> prowler kubernetes --list-services |
1 -> prowler kubernetes --list-compliance |
7 -> prowler kubernetes --list-categories |
Prowler App can be installed in different ways, depending on your environment:
See how to use Prowler App in the Prowler App Usage Guide.
Requirements
Docker Composeinstalled: https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/.
Commands
curl -LO https://raw.githubusercontent.com/prowler-cloud/prowler/refs/heads/master/docker-compose.yml
curl -LO https://raw.githubusercontent.com/prowler-cloud/prowler/refs/heads/master/.env
docker compose up -dContainers are built for
linux/amd64. If your workstation's architecture is different, please setDOCKER_DEFAULT_PLATFORM=linux/amd64in your environment or use the--platform linux/amd64flag in the docker command. Enjoy Prowler App at http://localhost:3000 by signing up with your email and password.
Requirements
gitinstalled.poetryinstalled: poetry installation.npminstalled: npm installation.Docker Composeinstalled: https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/.
Commands to run the API
git clone https://github.com/prowler-cloud/prowler
cd prowler/api
poetry install
poetry shell
set -a
source .env
docker compose up postgres valkey -d
cd src/backend
python manage.py migrate --database admin
gunicorn -c config/guniconf.py config.wsgi:applicationNow, you can access the API documentation at http://localhost:8080/api/v1/docs.
Commands to run the API Worker
git clone https://github.com/prowler-cloud/prowler
cd prowler/api
poetry install
poetry shell
set -a
source .env
cd src/backend
python -m celery -A config.celery worker -l info -ECommands to run the API Scheduler
git clone https://github.com/prowler-cloud/prowler
cd prowler/api
poetry install
poetry shell
set -a
source .env
cd src/backend
python -m celery -A config.celery beat -l info --scheduler django_celery_beat.schedulers:DatabaseSchedulerCommands to run the UI
git clone https://github.com/prowler-cloud/prowler
cd prowler/ui
npm install
npm run build
npm startEnjoy Prowler App at http://localhost:3000 by signing up with your email and password.
Prowler CLI is available as a project in PyPI, thus can be installed using pip with Python >= 3.9, < 3.13:
pip install prowler
prowler -vMore details at https://docs.prowler.com
The available versions of Prowler CLI are the following:
latest: in sync withmasterbranch (bear in mind that it is not a stable version)v4-latest: in sync withv4branch (bear in mind that it is not a stable version)v3-latest: in sync withv3branch (bear in mind that it is not a stable version)<x.y.z>(release): you can find the releases here, those are stable releases.stable: this tag always point to the latest release.v4-stable: this tag always point to the latest release for v4.v3-stable: this tag always point to the latest release for v3.
The container images are available here:
- Prowler CLI:
- Prowler App:
Python >= 3.9, < 3.13 is required with pip and poetry:
git clone https://github.com/prowler-cloud/prowler
cd prowler
poetry shell
poetry install
python prowler.py -vIf you want to clone Prowler from Windows, use
git config core.longpaths trueto allow long file paths.
The Prowler App consists of three main components:
- Prowler UI: A user-friendly web interface for running Prowler and viewing results, powered by Next.js.
- Prowler API: The backend API that executes Prowler scans and stores the results, built with Django REST Framework.
- Prowler SDK: A Python SDK that integrates with the Prowler CLI for advanced functionality.
You can run Prowler from your workstation, a Kubernetes Job, a Google Compute Engine, an Azure VM, an EC2 instance, Fargate or any other container, CloudShell and many more.
Allowlistnow is calledMutelist.- The
--quietoption has been deprecated, now use the--statusflag to select the finding's status you want to get from PASS, FAIL or MANUAL. - All
INFOfinding's status has changed toMANUAL. - The CSV output format is common for all the providers.
We have deprecated some of our outputs formats:
- The native JSON is replaced for the JSON OCSF v1.1.0, common for all the providers.
- Deprecate the AWS flag --sts-endpoint-region since we use AWS STS regional tokens.
- To send only FAILS to AWS Security Hub, now use either
--send-sh-only-failsor--security-hub --status FAIL.
Install, Usage, Tutorials and Developer Guide is at https://docs.prowler.com/
Prowler is licensed as Apache License 2.0 as specified in each file. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0