Operations
You can use the Panther API metrics operations to measure the total number of bytes and events that Panther ingested or processed over a specific time period. For other methods of assessing data ingestion volume, see the sections below.
Please reach out to your Panther account team for help accessing this data.
The information below applies to legacy Self-Hosted and CPaaS deployment types. Note that Panther no longer supports the Self-Hosted deployment type for new accounts.
The Panther log analysis CloudWatch dashboard provides deep insight into operationally relevant aspects of log processing. Understanding the ingest volume is critically important to forecast the cost of running Panther.
In the Dashboard of your Panther Console, you can view the volume of logs ingested. This can be used, in combination with your AWS bill, to forecast costs as you scale your data. We suggest you use a month of data to estimate your costs.
To view the CloudWatch dashboard:
- 1.Log in to the AWS Console.
- 2.Click CloudWatch from the Services menu.
- 3.Click Dashboards from the left sidebar of the CloudWatch console.
- 4.Click the dashboard name beginning with
PantherLogAnalysis
- 5.Click the three dots icon in upper right corner of the tile titled "Input MBytes (Uncompressed) by Log Type". In the dropdown menu, click View in CloudWatch Insights.
- 6.Set the time period for 4 weeks, then click Apply.
- 7.At the top of the Logs Insights page, click Run Query.

Panther comes with some operational tools useful for managing Panther infrastructure. These tools are statically compiled executables for Linux, Mac (including Darwin) and Windows.
These tools require that AWS credentials be set in the environment with sufficient privileges. We recommend a tool to manage these securely such as AWS Vault.
Do not run any of these tools unless specifically advised by a Panther team member.
Expand the tools below to find download links for the latest versions. Running these commands with the
-h
flag will explain usage. This tool backfills JSON-to-Parquet conversion of log data.
Download the latest version at the following links:
This tool lists S3 objects and posts S3 notifications to the Panther log processor SNS topic.
Download the latest version at the following links:
For information on using Panther's development tools, see the following pages:
If you want to download the latest version of a tool, use the download links within the tool's respective section, above. If you'd like to download a specific version of a tool, follow the instructions below.
Instructions for downloading the tools differs depending on your Panther version.
- 1.Log in to the Panther Console.
- 2.In the upper right corner, click your user icon. The Panther version is at the bottom of the dropdown menu.
Panther v1.27+
Panther 1.26.x and older
To download a specific version of a tool, construct the S3 download URL manually, using the following format:
https://panther-community-us-east-1.s3.amazonaws.com/{version}/tools/{os}-{arch}-{tool}.zip
Replace the placeholder text in the download URL as described below:version:
The version of Panther you have deployed, e.g.v1.27.0
latest
can replaceversion
to download the latest version of the tool.
os
: Use one of the following:darwin
,linux
, orwindows
arch
: Useamd64
orarm64
Example complete tool link using
{version}
https://panther-community-us-east-1.s3.amazonaws.com/v1.27.0/tools/darwin-amd64-compact.zip
Example download link using
latest
https://panther-community-us-east-1.s3.amazonaws.com/latest/tools/darwin-amd64-compact.zip
In these versions of Panther, all tools were bundled together in a single zipfile.
You can download the tools from a link using this format:
https://panther-community-us-east-1.s3.amazonaws.com/{version}/tools/{architecture}.zip
Replace the placeholder text in the download URL as described below:version
: The version of Panther you have deployed, e.g.v1.23.3
architecture
: Use one of the following:darwin-amd64
linux-amd64
linux-arm
windows-amd64
windows-arm
An example of a full link to the set of tools:
https://panther-community-us-east-1.s3.amazonaws.com/v1.23.3/tools/darwin-amd64.zip
The information below applies to legacy Self-Hosted and CPaaS deployment types. Panther no longer supports these deployment types for new accounts.
Panther has 5 CloudWatch dashboards to provide visibility into the operation of the system:
- PantherOverview An overview of all errors and performance of all Panther components.
- PantherCloudSecurity: Details of the components monitoring infrastructure for CloudSecurity.
- PantherAlertProcessing: Details of the components that relay alerts for CloudSecurity and Log Processing.
- PantherLogAnalysis: Details of the components processing logs and running rules.
- PantherRemediation: Details of the components that remediate infrastructure issues.
Panther uses CloudWatch Alarms to monitor the health of each component. Edit the
deployments/panther_config.yml
file to associate an SNS topic you have created with the Panther CloudWatch alarms to receive notifications. If this value is blank then Panther will associate alarms with the default Panther SNS topic called panther-alarms
:MonitoringParameterValues:
# This is the arn for the SNS topic you want associated with Panther system alarms.
# If this is not set alarms will be associated with the SNS topic `panther-alarms`.
AlarmSNSTopicARN: 'arn:aws:sns:us-east-1:05060362XXX:MyAlarmSNSTopic'
To configure alarms to send to your team, follow the guides below:
- Note: Pager Duty cannot handle composite CloudWatch alarms, which Panther uses to avoid duplicate pages to oncall staff. As a workaround, you can use a
Custom Event Transformer
.var details = JSON.parse(PD.inputRequest.rawBody);var description = "unknown event";if ("AlarmDescription" in details) { // looks like a CloudWatch event ...var descLines = details.AlarmDescription.split("\n");description = (descLines.length > 1)? descLines[0] + " " + descLines[1] : descLines[0];}var normalized_event = {event_type: PD.Trigger,description: description,incident_key: description,details: details};PD.emitGenericEvents([normalized_event]);Configure the SNS topic to useRawMessageDelivery: true
when creating the Pager Duty subscription.
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