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https://github.com/prowler-cloud/prowler

Prowler is an Open Cloud Security Platform for AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, M365 and more. It helps for continuos monitoring, security assessments and audits, incident response, compliance, hardening and forensics readiness. Includes CIS, NIST 800, NIST CSF, CISA, FedRAMP, PCI-DSS, GDPR, HIPAA, FFIEC, SOC2, ENS and more
https://github.com/prowler-cloud/prowler

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Prowler is an Open Cloud Security Platform for AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, M365 and more. It helps for continuos monitoring, security assessments and audits, incident response, compliance, hardening and forensics readiness. Includes CIS, NIST 800, NIST CSF, CISA, FedRAMP, PCI-DSS, GDPR, HIPAA, FFIEC, SOC2, ENS and more

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# Description



**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



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.



![Prowler App](docs/img/overview.png)



>More details at [Prowler App Documentation](https://docs.prowler.com/projects/prowler-open-source/en/latest/#prowler-app-installation)



## Prowler CLI



```console

prowler 

```

![Prowler CLI Execution](docs/img/short-display.png)



## Prowler Dashboard



```console

prowler dashboard

```

![Prowler Dashboard](docs/img/dashboard.png)



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](https://docs.prowler.com/projects/prowler-open-source/en/latest/tutorials/compliance/) | [Categories](https://docs.prowler.com/projects/prowler-open-source/en/latest/tutorials/misc/#categories) |

|---|---|---|---|---|

| AWS | 564 | 82 | 33 | 10 |

| GCP | 79 | 13 | 7 | 3 |

| Azure | 140 | 18 | 8 | 3 |

| Kubernetes | 83 | 7 | 4 | 7 |

| M365 | 44 | 2 | 1 | 0 |

| NHN (Unofficial) | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 |



> You can list the checks, services, compliance frameworks and categories with `prowler  --list-checks`, `prowler  --list-services`, `prowler  --list-compliance` and `prowler  --list-categories`.



# 💻 Installation



## Prowler App



Prowler App can be installed in different ways, depending on your environment:



> See how to use Prowler App in the [Prowler App Usage Guide](https://docs.prowler.com/projects/prowler-open-source/en/latest/tutorials/prowler-app/).



### Docker Compose



**Requirements**



* `Docker Compose` installed: https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/.



**Commands**



``` console

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 -d

```



> Containers are built for `linux/amd64`. If your workstation's architecture is different, please set `DOCKER_DEFAULT_PLATFORM=linux/amd64` in your environment or use the `--platform linux/amd64` flag in the docker command.

> Enjoy Prowler App at http://localhost:3000 by signing up with your email and password.



### From GitHub



**Requirements**



* `git` installed.

* `poetry` v2 installed: [poetry installation](https://python-poetry.org/docs/#installation).

* `npm` installed: [npm installation](https://docs.npmjs.com/downloading-and-installing-node-js-and-npm).

* `Docker Compose` installed: https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/.



**Commands to run the API**



``` console

git clone https://github.com/prowler-cloud/prowler

cd prowler/api

poetry install

eval $(poetry env activate)

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:application

```

> [!IMPORTANT]

> Starting from Poetry v2.0.0, `poetry shell` has been deprecated in favor of `poetry env activate`.

>

> If your poetry version is below 2.0.0 you must keep using `poetry shell` to activate your environment.

> In case you have any doubts, consult the Poetry environment activation guide: https://python-poetry.org/docs/managing-environments/#activating-the-environment



> Now, you can access the API documentation at http://localhost:8080/api/v1/docs.



**Commands to run the API Worker**



``` console

git clone https://github.com/prowler-cloud/prowler

cd prowler/api

poetry install

eval $(poetry env activate)

set -a

source .env

cd src/backend

python -m celery -A config.celery worker -l info -E

```



**Commands to run the API Scheduler**



``` console

git clone https://github.com/prowler-cloud/prowler

cd prowler/api

poetry install

eval $(poetry env activate)

set -a

source .env

cd src/backend

python -m celery -A config.celery beat -l info --scheduler django_celery_beat.schedulers:DatabaseScheduler

```



**Commands to run the UI**



``` console

git clone https://github.com/prowler-cloud/prowler

cd prowler/ui

npm install

npm run build

npm start

```



> Enjoy Prowler App at http://localhost:3000 by signing up with your email and password.



## Prowler CLI

### Pip package

Prowler CLI is available as a project in [PyPI](https://pypi.org/project/prowler-cloud/), thus can be installed using pip with Python > 3.9.1, < 3.13:



```console

pip install prowler

prowler -v

```

>More details at [https://docs.prowler.com](https://docs.prowler.com/projects/prowler-open-source/en/latest/#prowler-cli-installation)



### Containers



The available versions of Prowler CLI are the following:



- `latest`: in sync with `master` branch (bear in mind that it is not a stable version)

- `v4-latest`: in sync with `v4` branch (bear in mind that it is not a stable version)

- `v3-latest`: in sync with `v3` branch (bear in mind that it is not a stable version)

- `` (release): you can find the releases [here](https://github.com/prowler-cloud/prowler/releases), 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:

    - [DockerHub](https://hub.docker.com/r/toniblyx/prowler/tags)

    - [AWS Public ECR](https://gallery.ecr.aws/prowler-cloud/prowler)

- Prowler App:

    - [DockerHub - Prowler UI](https://hub.docker.com/r/prowlercloud/prowler-ui/tags)

    - [DockerHub - Prowler API](https://hub.docker.com/r/prowlercloud/prowler-api/tags)



### From GitHub



Python > 3.9.1, < 3.13 is required with pip and poetry:



``` console

git clone https://github.com/prowler-cloud/prowler

cd prowler

eval $(poetry env activate)

poetry install

python prowler-cli.py -v

```

> [!IMPORTANT]

> Starting from Poetry v2.0.0, `poetry shell` has been deprecated in favor of `poetry env activate`.

>

> If your poetry version is below 2.0.0 you must keep using `poetry shell` to activate your environment.

> In case you have any doubts, consult the Poetry environment activation guide: https://python-poetry.org/docs/managing-environments/#activating-the-environment



> If you want to clone Prowler from Windows, use `git config core.longpaths true` to allow long file paths.

# 📐✏️ High level architecture



## Prowler App

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.



![Prowler App Architecture](docs/img/prowler-app-architecture.png)



## Prowler CLI

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.



![Architecture](docs/img/architecture.png)



# Deprecations from v3



## General

- `Allowlist` now is called `Mutelist`.

- The `--quiet` option has been deprecated, now use the `--status` flag to select the finding's status you want to get from PASS, FAIL or MANUAL.

- All `INFO` finding's status has changed to `MANUAL`.

- 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](https://schema.ocsf.io/) v1.1.0, common for all the providers.



## AWS

- 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-fails` or `--security-hub --status FAIL`.



# 📖 Documentation



Install, Usage, Tutorials and Developer Guide is at https://docs.prowler.com/



# 📃 License



Prowler is licensed as Apache License 2.0 as specified in each file. You may obtain a copy of the License at