Prometheus

Prometheus is a monitoring platform that scrapes the published endpoints of targets to collect their metrics. You can configure Prisma Cloud to be a Prometheus target.

You can use Prometheus to monitor time series data across your environment and show high-level, dashboard-like, stats to visualize trends and changes. Prisma Cloud’s instrumentation lets you track metrics such as the total number of connected Defenders and the total number of container images in your environment that your Defenders protect.

Metrics

Metrics are a core Prometheus concept. Instrumented systems expose metrics. Prometheus stores the metrics in its time-series database, and makes them easily available to query to understand how systems behave over time.

Prisma Cloud has two types of metrics:

• Counters: Single monotonically increasing values. A counter’s value can only increase or be reset to zero.
• Gauges: Single numerical values that can arbitrarily go up or down.

Prisma Cloud metrics

All Prisma Cloud metrics are listed in the following table. Vulnerability and compliance metrics are updated every 24 hours. The rest of the metrics are updated every 10 minutes.

The vulnerabilities and compliance metrics report the number of many entities, for example images, containers, or hosts, that are at risk by the highest severity issue impacting them. The images_critical_vulnerabilities is not the total count of critical vulnerabilities in the images in your environment. It is the total count of images where the highest severity CVE is critical. For a thorough explanation of this type of metric, see Vulnerability Explorer.

Metric	Type	Description
totalDefenders	Gauge	Total number of Defenders connected to Console. Connected and disconnected Defenders can be reviewed in Console under Manage > Defenders > Manage.
activeDefenders	Gauge	Total number of all Defenders for which a license is allocated, regardless of whether it is currently connected to Console or not.
images_critical_vulnerabilities	Gauge	Total number of containers impacted by critical vulnerabilities.
images_high_vulnerabilities	Gauge	Total number of containers impacted by high vulnerabilities.
images_medium_vulnerabilities	Gauge	Total number of containers impacted by medium vulnerabilities.
images_low_vulnerabilities	Gauge	Total number of containers impacted by low vulnerabilities.
hosts_critical_vulnerabilities	Gauge	Total number of hosts impacted by critical vulnerabilities.
hosts_high_vulnerabilities	Gauge	Total number of hosts impacted by high vulnerabilities.
hosts_medium_vulnerabilities	Gauge	Total number of hosts impacted by medium vulnerabilities.
hosts_low_vulnerabilities	Gauge	Total number of hosts impacted by low vulnerabilities.
serverless_critical_vulnerabilities	Gauge	Total number of serverless functions impacted by critical vulnerabilities.
serverless_high_vulnerabilities	Gauge	Total number of serverless functions impacted by high vulnerabilities.
serverless_medium_vulnerabilities	Gauge	Total number of serverless functions impacted by medium vulnerabilities.
serverless_low_vulnerabilities	Gauge	Total number of serverless functions impacted by low vulnerabilities.
images_critical_compliance	Gauge	Total number of images impacted by critical compliance issues.
images_high_compliance	Gauge	Total number of images impacted by high compliance issues.
images_medium_compliance	Gauge	Total number of images impacted by medium compliance issues.
images_low_compliance	Gauge	Total number of images impacted by low compliance issues.
containers_critical_compliance	Gauge	Total number of containers impacted by critical compliance issues.
containers_high_compliance	Gauge	Total number of containers impacted by high compliance issues.
containers_medium_compliance	Gauge	Total number of containers impacted by medium compliance issues.
containers_low_compliance	Gauge	Total number of containers impacted by low compliance issues.
hosts_critical_compliance	Gauge	Total number of hosts impacted by critical compliance issues.
hosts_high_compliance	Gauge	Total number of hosts impacted by high compliance issues.
hosts_medium_compliance	Gauge	Total number of hosts impacted by medium compliance issues.
hosts_low_compliance	Gauge	Total number of hosts impacted by low compliance issues.
serverless_critical_compliance	Gauge	Total number of serverless functions impacted by critical compliance issues.
serverless_high_compliance	Gauge	Total number of serverless functions impacted by high compliance issues.
serverless_medium_compliance	Gauge	Total number of serverless functions impacted by medium compliance issues.
serverless_low_compliance	Gauge	Total number of serverless functions impacted by low compliance issues.
active_app_firewalls	Gauge	Total number of active app firewalls (WAAS).
app_firewall_events	Gauge	Total number of app firewall (WAAS) events.
protected_containers	Gauge	Total number of protected containers.
container_runtime_events	Gauge	Total number of container runtime events.
host_runtime_events	Gauge	Total number of host runtime events.
access_events	Gauge	Total number of access events.
registry_images	Gauge	The total number of registry images scanned.
container_active_incidents	Gauge	The total number of container active incidents.
container_archived_incidents	Gauge	The total number of container archived incidents.
host_active_incidents	Gauge	The total number of host active incidents.
host_archived_incidents	Gauge	The total number of host archived incidents.
incident_snapshots	Gauge	The total number of incident snapshots on the console.
incident_snapshots_size_mb Gauge The size in MB of incident snapshots	backups	Gauge
The total backups stored in a system.	ci_image_scan_results	Gauge
The total number of CI scanning results in the Prisma Cloud Console.	tenant_project_connectivity	Gauge
For tenant projects, returns 1 if the tenant project is connected to the main console.	compliance_rules_consumed_collections	Gauge
The total number of collections consumed by compliance rules.	vulnerability_rules_consumed_collections	Gauge
The total number of collections consumed by vulnerability rules.	runtime_rules_consumed_collections	Gauge
The total number of collections consumed by runtime rules.	api_requests	Counter
Total number of requests to the Prisma Cloud API.	defender_events	Counter

Integrate Prisma Cloud with Prometheus

The Prometheus server scrapes endpoints at configurable time intervals. Regardless of the value you set for the Prometheus scrape interval, new Prisma Cloud data is only available at the following refresh rates.

• Vulnerability and compliance data is refreshed every 24 hours.
• All other data is refreshed every 10 minutes.

This procedure shows how to complete the following tasks.

1. Enable the Prometheus integration.
2. Configure the Prisma Cloud scrape.
3. Start a Prometheus server running in a container.

If you already have a Prometheus server in your environment, you only need to enable the integration and configure the scrape.

1. Enable the Prometheus integration.

   1. Log into Prisma Cloud Console.
   2. Go to Manage > Alerts > Logging.
   3. Set Prometheus instrumentation to Enabled.
2. Prepare a scrape configuration file for the Prometheus server.

   1. Create a new prometheus.yml file, and open it for editing.
   2. Enter the following configuration fields.

      global:
        scrape_interval:     15s # Set the scrape interval to every 15 seconds. Default is every 1 minute.
        evaluation_interval: 15s # Evaluate rules every 15 seconds. The default is every 1 minute.
      
      # Prisma Cloud scrape configuration.
      scrape_configs:
        - job_name: 'twistlock'
          static_configs:
          - targets: ['CONSOLE_ADDRESS:8083']
          metrics_path: /api/v1/metrics
          basic_auth:
            username: 'USER'
            password: 'PASS'

      • Replace CONSOLE_ADDRESS with the DNS name or IP address for Prisma Cloud Console.
      • Replace USER with a Prisma Cloud user, which has the minimum role of Auditor.
      • Replace PASS with that Prisma Cloud user’s password.
3. Start the Prometheus server with the scrape configuration file.

   $ docker run \
     --rm \
     --network=host \
     -p 9090:9090 \
     -v /PATH_TO_YML/prometheus.yml:/etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml \
     prom/prometheus

4. Go to http://<PROMETHEUS_HOST>:9090/targets to validate that the Prisma Cloud integration is properly set up.

   

   To get results immediately for testing, restart the prisma Cloud Console. If you are using the PCEE, wait 10 minutes for the first refresh window to elapse.

Create a simple graph

Create a graph that shows the number of deployed Defenders.

1. Go to http://<PROMETHEUS_HOST>:9090/graph
2. Click Add Graph.
3. In the drop-down list, select twistlock_total_defenders.
4. Click Execute. In the Console tab, you see the value for total number of Defenders connected to the Prisma Cloud Console.
5. Open the Graph tab to see a visual representation of how the number of Defenders has changed over time.