# prowler-cloud/prowler

Prowler is the world’s most widely used open-source cloud security platform that automates security and compliance across any cloud environment.

Repository: https://github.com/prowler-cloud/prowler
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/prowler
Homepage: https://prowler.com
Language: Python
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: security, security-tools, security-audit, security-hardening, hardening, aws, cis-benchmark, compliance, gdpr, forensics, cloud, devsecops, azure, iam, python, gcp, multi-cloud, cspm, cloudsecurity, hacktoberfest
Last push: 2026-08-26T17:49:07+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 95/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 86, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3661, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 15, "gap_med": 4.0, "n_releases_24m": 115}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 14687, forks 2334 (observed 2026-08-28T04:11:07.423156+00:00)

## What it is
Prowler is an open-source cloud security platform that performs security best-practice assessments, audits, continuous monitoring, hardening, and forensics readiness across AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, and other providers. It ships as a CLI scanner and a self-hostable web app/API, with hundreds of checks mapped to compliance frameworks like CIS, NIST, PCI-DSS, GDPR, and HIPAA.

## Use cases
- audit my AWS account against CIS benchmarks
- scan cloud accounts for security misconfigurations
- monitor cloud compliance with GDPR and PCI-DSS continuously
- run security best practice assessments on Azure and GCP
- generate compliance evidence for audits
- harden cloud IAM configurations
- prepare for incident response and forensics readiness

## When to choose
- you need multi-cloud security posture management (CSPM) without licensing costs
- you want automated compliance mapping to CIS, NIST, HIPAA, SOC2 and custom frameworks
- you prefer a CLI-first or self-hosted scanning tool
- you need continuous monitoring with integrations into your existing workflow

## When to avoid
- you need runtime workload or container vulnerability scanning rather than cloud configuration auditing
- you want a fully managed SaaS with enterprise support and are fine paying for it
- your environment is entirely on-premises with no cloud providers

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: security, vulnerability-scanning, monitoring, developer-tools
- domain: security, cloud-computing, legal
- platform: python, cli, self-hosted, cross-platform
- tags: cspm, cloud-security, compliance-auditing, cis-benchmark, aws, azure, gcp, devsecops, forensics, hardening, devops, docker

## Member repositories
- prowler-cloud/prowler (main) score 95

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:07.423156+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:07:22.232229+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/prowler-cloud/prowler (fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:07.423156+00:00, sha 4e91221e838e)
  - homepage: https://prowler.com (fetched 2026-08-29T08:05:38.796764+00:00, sha 9466c4ad465e)
  - site_page: https://docs.prowler.com/ (fetched 2026-08-29T08:05:38.801731+00:00, sha 5c78dbb56a5e)
  - site_page: https://prowler.com/about (fetched 2026-08-29T08:05:38.803384+00:00, sha 1e7f19d1f114)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/prowler/json (fetched 2026-08-29T08:05:38.804945+00:00, sha bd83dde273f9)
  - site_page: https://prowler.com/pricing (fetched 2026-08-29T08:05:38.799631+00:00, sha 4e6e52ebcded)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.