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    Event viewer

    Prisma Cloud creates and stores audit event records (audits) for all major subsystems. Audits can be reviewed in
    Monitor > Events
    , or they can be retrieved from the Prisma Cloud Compute API. If you have a centralized syslog collector, you can integrate Prisma Cloud with your existing infrastructure by configuring Prisma Cloud to send all audit events to syslog in RFC5424-compliant format.
    You can review some of the limits on storing audit events.
    When you’re reviewing audits in a dialog, the list of audits isn’t updated in real-time. To retrieve all the latest data, close the dialog. If the
    Refresh
     button is decorated with a red indicator, click it to refresh the view with the latest data, then reopen the dialog.

    Access audits

    Access to any container resource protected by Defender is logged and aggregated in Console. You can also configure Prisma Cloud to record audits for sudo, SSH, and other events that are executed on hosts protected by Defender. This audit trail links access to system components to individual users. Access events can be viewed in Console under
    Monitor > Events
    .

    Runtime audits

    Prisma Cloud records an audit every time a runtime sensor (process, network, file system, and system call) detects activity that deviates from the sum of the predictive model plus any runtime rules you’ve defined. For example, a file system audit event is emitted when Prisma Cloud detects malware in a container. Runtime events for containers can be viewed in Console under
    Monitor > Events
    . Runtime events for hosts can be viewed in Console under
    Monitor > Events
    .

    Firewall audits

    Web Application and API Security (WAAS) is a layer 7 filtering engine that ensures only safe, clean traffic ever reaches your web app. Audits are generated when WAAS detects an attack, such as SQL injection or cross-site scripting. WAAS audits can be viewed under
    Monitor > Events
    .

    Admin activity

    All Prisma Cloud administrative activity can viewed under
    Manage > View Logs
    .
    Prisma Cloud limits viewing of audit trails to those with a job-related need. To view audit events, you must log into Console. Only users with Administrator, Operator, Defender Manager, or Auditor roles can view audit data in Console. Similarly, only users with the above-mentioned roles can retrieve audit data from the Prisma Cloud API.

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