{"id":37418,"date":"2025-05-21T10:17:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T14:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/?p=37418"},"modified":"2025-06-06T04:04:52","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T08:04:52","slug":"what-is-amazon-inspector-monitoring-and-alerting-with-amazon-inspector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/what-is-amazon-inspector-monitoring-and-alerting-with-amazon-inspector\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Amazon Inspector? Monitoring and Alerting with Amazon Inspector"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"inner_content\">\n<h2>What is Amazon Inspector?<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-37530 size-full\" style=\"width: 300px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/amazon-inspector.webp\" alt=\"Amazon Inspector logo - plus key features \" width=\"427\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/amazon-inspector.webp 427w, https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/amazon-inspector-298x300.webp 298w, https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/amazon-inspector-150x150.webp 150w, https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/amazon-inspector-310x312.webp 310w, https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/amazon-inspector-140x141.webp 140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\" \/>Amazon Inspector is an automated security assessment service that scans AWS workloads for vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, unintended network exposure and compliance risks, helping organizations enhance cloud security, detect threats, and meet regulatory requirements (such as <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/information-security\">ISO\/IEC 27001<\/a>, <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/solution-brief\/enhance-healthcare-it.pdf\">HIPAA<\/a>, <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/what-is-nis2-compliance-and-how-to-use-proactive-monitoring-to-automate-compliance\/\">NIS 2<\/a> and <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/press-releases\/eg-innovations-successfully-completes-soc-2-type-2-audit\">SOC 2 Type 2<\/a>) in real time.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon Inspector discovers and scans Amazon <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/top-10-aws-services-explained-with-use-cases\/#1_AWS_EC2_-_Elastic_Compute_Cloud\">EC2 instances<\/a>, container images in Amazon <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/ecr\/\" target=\"blank\">ECR<\/a> (Elastic Container Registry), and <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/top-10-aws-services-explained-with-use-cases\/#3_AWS_Lambda\">Lambda<\/a> functions. When Inspector detects a software vulnerability or unintended network exposure, it creates a \u201cfinding\u201d, which is a detailed report about the issue.<\/p>\n<h2>How to Access Amazon Inspector Findings<\/h2>\n<p>Using <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/inspector\/latest\/user\/monitoring-overview.html\" target=\"blank\">native tooling<\/a> you can manage findings via the Inspector console or API. Amazon also provides the <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/inspector\/latest\/user\/understanding-dashboard.html\" target=\"blank\">Amazon Inspector dashboard<\/a> which offers a high-level view of findings from across your AWS environment.<\/p>\n<p>Out-of-the-box these tools require manual inspection by a human operator. If you want to automate near real-time monitoring and alerting on Inspector findings you need to tool your own integration against the API or the <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/eventbridge\/latest\/userguide\/eb-what-is.html\" target=\"blank\">Amazon EventBridge<\/a>. Inspector publishes findings to Amazon EventBridge as \u201cfinding\u201d events. EventBridge is a serverless event bus service that can route findings data to targets such as <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/top-10-aws-services-explained-with-use-cases\/#3_AWS_Lambda\">AWS Lambda<\/a> functions and <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/documentation\/Monitoring-AWS-EC2-Cloud\/AWS-Simple-Notification-Service-SNS-Test.htm\">Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)<\/a> topics. With EventBridge, you can monitor and process findings in near-real time as part of your existing security and compliance workflows. Beyond <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/inspector\/latest\/user\/findings-managing-automating-responses.html\" target=\"blank\">the official documentation<\/a>, some community advice on how to do this is available, for example:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/77794822\/eventbridge-event-pattern-for-inspector-events-from-last-24-hours\" target=\"blank\">json &#8211; EventBridge Event Pattern for Inspector events from last 24 hours &#8211; Stack Overflow<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/aws\/comments\/1fvms86\/inspector_findings\/\" target=\"blank\">Inspector Findings : r\/aws<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/70784050\/get-aws-inspector-findings-report-from-aws-inspector-in-mail\" target=\"blank\">amazon web services &#8211; Get AWS Inspector findings report from AWS Inspector in mail &#8211; Stack Overflow<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Simple GUI, Ready-to-go Monitoring and Alerting for Amazon Inspector<\/h2>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 15px;\">Many organizations prefer to adopt third-party AI-powered observability solutions such as eG Enterprise which can provide out-of-the-box monitoring, alerting and root-cause analytics on Inspector findings. Reasons to choose eG Enterprise include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Removes the need to build and maintain bespoke tooling and the skilled staffing requirements associated<\/li>\n<li>Supports cloud-agnostic, <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/monitoring-multicloud-infrastructures\/\">multi-cloud<\/a>, <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/the-importance-of-a-cloud-exit-strategy-what-it-is-who-needs-it-and-how-to-plan-it\/\">cloud-exit<\/a> and <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/glossary\/hybrid-cloud\">hybrid cloud<\/a> strategies, a AI-powered observability solution such as <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/product\/technologies-list-view\">eG Enterprise supports over 650 application, infrastructure and technology stacks<\/a>. So, if in the future your platform needs move away from AWS you will not need to build yet another platform-specific monitoring stack<\/li>\n<li>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 20px;\">eG Enterprise already integrates with <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/integrate-eg-enterprise-with-itsm-tools\/\">a vast range of ITSM and notification<\/a> systems so you can track security issues raised by Inspector in your preferred system (or even multiple systems)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"160\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-37532\" style=\"width: 350px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/AWS-Partner-logos.webp\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/AWS-Partner-logos.webp 685w, https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/AWS-Partner-logos-300x138.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/AWS-Partner-logos-310x142.webp 310w, https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/AWS-Partner-logos-140x64.webp 140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"img_caption\">eG Innovations is an official Amazon partner and eG Enterprise is certified as Amazon Well-Architected Monitoring Solution<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/auditing-capabilities-in-it-monitoring-tools-for-security-and-compliance\/\/\">audit trails<\/a> of Inspector findings recorded by eG Enterprise ensure that you can track incidents and automate reports needed for regulatory compliance with risk management frameworks and regulations such as <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/what-is-nis2-compliance-and-how-to-use-proactive-monitoring-to-automate-compliance\/\">NIS2<\/a>, <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/what-is-the-digital-operational-resilience-act-dora-everything-you-need-to-know-about-dora-compliance\/\">DORA<\/a>, <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/press-releases\/eg-innovations-earns-iso-27001-2022-certification-for-information-security-management-systems\">ISO 27001<\/a> and so on.<\/li>\n<li>eG Enterprise includes powerful <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/product\/capabilities\/aiops-monitoring\">AI-driven auto-baselining and anomaly detection<\/a> so you get alerting configured out-of-the-box<\/li>\n<li>eG Enterprise provides external visibility on cloud outages, whilst you can leverage EventBridge and Amazon\u2019s SNS services, these can leave you blind in the event of an AWS failure. See: <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/how-to-protect-your-it-ops-from-cloud-outages\/\">How to Protect your IT Ops from Cloud Outages<\/a><\/li>\n<li>For MSPs running multi-tenant AWS deployments, eG Enterprise\u2019s <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/what-is-multi-tenancy-multi-tenancy-for-msps-explained\/\">support for multi-tenancy<\/a> enables them to provide per tenant \/ customer reports and management<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>How eG Enterprise Tracks Amazon Inspector Findings<\/h2>\n<p>eG Enterprise\u2019s domain aware layer models for AWS now include an AWS Security layer within which AWS Inspector Findings are reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/eg-dev-monitoring-zoom.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-37534\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/eg-dev-monitoring.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/eg-dev-monitoring.webp 750w, https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/eg-dev-monitoring-300x214.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/eg-dev-monitoring-310x222.webp 310w, https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/eg-dev-monitoring-140x100.webp 140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"img_caption\">Figure 1: This screenshot shows where eG Enterprise reports Amazon Inspector findings \u2013 detailed root-cause diagnostics, are also available with details of the findings.<\/div>\n<h2>Can eG Enterprise Monitor \u201cAmazon Inspector Classic\u201d?<\/h2>\n<p>Yes, it can. Amazon Inspector Classic tests the network accessibility of your Amazon EC2 instances and the security state of your applications that run on those instances. Amazon strongly encourages users to explore and use the newer Amazon Inspector Service as described above, see: <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/inspector\/v1\/userguide\/inspector_introduction.html\" target=\"blank\">What is Amazon Inspector Classic? &#8211; Amazon Inspector Classic<\/a>. However, for our customers who continue to use the \u201cClassic\u201d version we can offer them comparable monitoring and alerting in the same familiar single console.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/aws-inspector-summary-zoom.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-37536\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/aws-inspector-summary.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/aws-inspector-summary.webp 750w, https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/aws-inspector-summary-300x126.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/aws-inspector-summary-310x131.webp 310w, https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/aws-inspector-summary-140x59.webp 140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"img_caption\">Figure 2: eG Enterprise can monitor and alert on Amazon Inspector Classic alongside, and within the same friendly console as, the new Amazon Inspector.<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 20px; border: 1px solid #ffd392; background: #fcf8ef; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 30px;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: bold; font-size: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px;\">How is Amazon Inspector different from Amazon Inspector Classic?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 15px;\">The new Amazon Inspector has expanded coverage to add support for container images residing in Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) in addition to EC2 instances. It also offers multi-account support through integration with AWS Organizations, and continual software vulnerability and network reachability scanning based on common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs).<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 5px;\">More details on this and other FAQs relating to Inspector are available, see: <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/inspector\/faqs\/\" target=\"blank\">Automated Vulnerability Management &#8211; Inspector FAQs &#8211; AWS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Can eG Enterprise also Monitor Recommendations for the Microsoft Azure Cloud?<\/h2>\n<p>Yes, eG Enterprise can monitor Azure recommendation services in a comparable manner to those in AWS, again in the same familiar, single console. Some information on how eG Enterprise monitors and alerts on security recommendations from Azure Advisor is covered in a previous article, see <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/what-is-azure-advisor\/\/\">Azure Advisor Integration | eG Innovations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Related Articles<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>If you\u2019d like to explore how <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/supported-technologies\/aws-monitoring\">Advanced AWS Monitoring Solutions<\/a> can help you go beyond native cloud capabilities and provide automated AI-powered correlation between Applications, User Experience and Amazon\u2019s AWS platform \/ services, please see: <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/ebooks\/how-to-achieve-full-observability-in-the-cloud-nine-practical-steps-to-go-beyond-cloud-native-monitoring\">How to Achieve Full Observability in the Cloud: Nine Practical Steps to Go Beyond Cloud-Native Monitoring<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Learn more about our partnerships with Amazon, see: <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/eg-innovations-achieves-amazon-web-services-aws-digital-workplace-competency-status\/\">eG Innovations achieves Amazon Web Services (AWS) Digital Workplace Competency status | eG Innovations<\/a><\/li>\n<li>If you are an SRE, IT Sys Admin, DevOps or generally just interested in IT Operational Resilience using AIOps, please see: <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/how-to-protect-your-it-ops-from-cloud-outages\/\">How to Protect your IT Ops from Cloud Outages<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Take a quick look at some of our Amazon infrastructure dashboards, see: <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/aws-monitoring-dashboards-for-ec2-ebs-rds-s3\/\">AWS monitoring dashboards for EC2, EBS, RDS and S3<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is Amazon Inspector? 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