# Netflix/security_monkey

Security Monkey monitors AWS, GCP, OpenStack, and GitHub orgs for assets and their changes over time.

Repository: https://github.com/Netflix/security_monkey
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/security_monkey
Language: Python
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: aws, python, aws-s3, aws-ec2, aws-sqs, aws-vpc, aws-iam, boto3, boto, botocore, aws-security, aws-policy-tracking, security
Archived: true
Last push: 2021-02-11T02:32:12+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4450, "days_push": 2030, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 4371, forks 780 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:46.797757+00:00)

## What it is
Security Monkey is a self-hosted service from Netflix that monitors AWS, GCP, OpenStack, and GitHub organizations for assets and policy changes, alerting on insecure configurations. It provides a web UI to browse accounts and track what changed and when over time.

## Use cases
- monitor my AWS account for insecure configurations
- track policy changes across cloud accounts over time
- alert when S3 buckets or IAM policies become insecure
- watch GitHub orgs and repositories for changes
- audit cloud infrastructure changes with a single UI

## When to choose
- you are already running it and need reference material
- you need a historical record of cloud asset changes on legacy Python 2.7 infrastructure

## When to avoid
- starting a new project - it is end-of-life and in maintenance mode
- AWS-only monitoring - use AWS Config instead
- GCP-only monitoring - use Cloud Asset Inventory instead
- you need Python 3 or active community support

## Facets
- artifact type: service
- maturity: abandoned
- function: monitoring, alerting, security, cloud
- domain: security, cloud-computing, monitoring
- platform: python, self-hosted
- tags: aws-security, cloud-asset-monitoring, policy-change-tracking, gcp, openstack, github-monitoring, end-of-life, devops, linux, macos, web-server

## Member repositories
- Netflix/security_monkey (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:46.797757+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 2026-08-29T18:21:22.108406+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Netflix/security_monkey (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:46.797757+00:00, sha 46c5dd87d659)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/security_monkey/json (fetched 2026-08-29T09:09:48.757111+00:00, sha 6363c8b97115)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.