Monitor vulnerabilities in Kubernetes/OpenShift

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  • Published Aug 24, 2022

You can keep track of security vulnerabilities in your Kubernetes environments on the cluster and workload pages.

Prerequisites

Vulnerability section

The Vulnerabilities section is displayed on the Kubernetes

  • Cluster details page
  • Workloads page

It shows the five most severe related third-party vulnerabilities and code-level vulnerabilities.

  • Select a vulnerability to view the details and understand the severity and impact of a vulnerability within your environment.
  • For a complete list of the detected vulnerabilities for your Kubernetes environment, select Show all third-party vulnerabilities/Show all code-level vulnerabilities.

Example third-party vulnerabilities:

Kubernetes workload: TPV

Example code-level vulnerabilities:

Kubernetes workload: CLV

If you're missing the security permissions for the selected management zone,

  • On the Kubernetes cluster page, the Vulnerabilities section is not displayed.
  • On the Kubernetes workload page, the Vulnerabilities tab on the notification bar shows Not analyzed.
Related tags
Infrastructure Observability