Introduction

Observability in security software is crucial, especially when this software might take important decision such as blocking IP addresses.

We attempt to provide good observability of CrowdSec's behavior :

• CrowdSec itself exposes a prometheus instrumentation
• cscli allows you to view part of prometheus metrics in cli (cscli metrics)
• CrowdSec logging is contextualized for easy processing
• for humans, cscli allows you to trivially start a service exposing dashboards (using metabase)

Furthermore, most of CrowdSec configuration should allow you to enable partial debug (ie. per-scenario, per-parser etc.)