Threat Monitoring (ULTIMATE)

Introduced in GitLab Ultimate 12.9.

The Threat Monitoring page provides metrics and policy management for the GitLab application runtime security features. You can access these by navigating to your project's Security & Compliance > Threat Monitoring page.

GitLab supports statistics for the following security features:

• Web Application Firewall
• Container Network Policies

Web Application Firewall

The Web Application Firewall section provides metrics for the NGINX Ingress controller and ModSecurity firewall. This section has the following prerequisites:

• Project has to have at least one environment.
• Web Application Firewall has to be enabled.
• Elastic Stack has to be installed.

If you are using custom Helm values for the Elastic Stack you have to configure Filebeat similarly to the vendored values.

The Web Application Firewall section displays the following information about your Ingress traffic:

• The total amount of requests to your application
• The proportion of traffic that is considered anomalous according to the configured rules
• The request breakdown graph for the selected time interval

If a significant percentage of traffic is anomalous, you should investigate it for potential threats by examining the Web Application Firewall logs.

Container Network Policy

Introduced in GitLab Ultimate 12.9.

The Container Network Policy section provides packet flow metrics for your application's Kubernetes namespace. This section has the following prerequisites:

• Your project contains at least one environment
• You've installed Cilium
• You've configured the Prometheus service

If you're using custom Helm values for Cilium, you must enable Hubble with flow metrics for each namespace by adding the following lines to your Hubble values:

metrics:
  enabled:
    - 'flow:sourceContext=namespace;destinationContext=namespace'

The Container Network Policy section displays the following information about your packet flow:

• The total amount of the inbound and outbound packets
• The proportion of packets dropped according to the configured policies
• The per-second average rate of the forwarded and dropped packets accumulated over time window for the requested time interval

If a significant percentage of packets is dropped, you should investigate it for potential threats by examining the Cilium logs.

Container Network Policy management

Introduced in GitLab Ultimate 13.1.

The Threat Monitoring page's Policy tab displays deployed network policies for all available environments. You can check a network policy's yaml manifest and toggle the policy's enforcement status. This section has the following prerequisites:

• Your project contains at least one environment
• You've installed Cilium

Network policies are fetched directly from the selected environment's deployment platform. Changes performed outside of this tab are reflected upon refresh. Enforcement status changes are deployed directly to a deployment namespace of the selected environment.

NOTE: Note: If you're using Auto DevOps and change a policy in this section, your auto-deploy-values.yaml file doesn't update. Auto DevOps users must make changes by following the Container Network Policy documentation.

Changing enforcement status

To change a network policy's enforcement status:

• Click the network policy you want to update.
• Click the Enforcement status toggle to update the selected policy.
• Click the Apply changes button to deploy network policy changes.

NOTE: Note: Disabled network policies have the network-policy.gitlab.com/disabled_by: gitlab selector inside the podSelector block. This narrows the scope of such a policy and as a result it doesn't affect any pods. The policy itself is still deployed to the corresponding deployment namespace.