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Prowler App is a web application that simplifies running Prowler. It provides:
  • User-friendly interface for configuring and executing scans
  • Dashboard to view results and manage security findings
Prowler App

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Components

Prowler App consists of four main components:
  • Prowler UI: User-friendly web interface for running Prowler and viewing results, powered by Next.js
  • Prowler API: Backend API that executes Prowler scans and stores results, built with Django REST Framework
  • Prowler SDK: Python SDK that integrates with Prowler CLI for advanced functionality
  • Prowler MCP Server: Model Context Protocol server that exposes AI tools for Lighthouse, the AI-powered security assistant. Required dependency for Lighthouse.
Supporting infrastructure includes:
  • PostgreSQL: Persistent storage of scan results
  • Celery Workers: Asynchronous execution of Prowler scans
  • Celery Beat (API Scheduler): Schedules recurring scans and enqueues jobs on the broker
  • Valkey: In-memory database serving as message broker for Celery workers
  • Neo4j: Graph database used by the Attack Paths feature to combine cloud inventory with Prowler findings (currently populated by AWS scans)
Prowler App Architecture