fleet/docs/Using-Fleet/Automations.md

Automations

You can configure automations in Fleet to send a webhook request if a certain condition is met.

Vulnerability automations send a webhook request if a new vulnerability (CVE) is detected on at least one host.

Policy automations send a webhook request if a policy is newly failing on at least one host.

Host status automations send a webhook request if a configured percentage of hosts have not checked in to Fleet for a configured number of days.

Vulnerability automations

Vulnerability automations send a webhook request if a new vulnerability (CVE) is found on at least one host.

Note that a CVE is "new" if it was published to the national vulnerability (NVD) database within the last 30 days (by default).

Fleet sends these webhook requests once every hour. If two new vulnerabilities are detected within the hour, two webhook requests are sent. This interval can be updated with the vulnerabilities_periodicity configuration option.

Example webhook payload:

POST https://server.com/example

{
  "timestamp": "0000-00-00T00:00:00Z",
  "vulnerability": {
    "cve": "CVE-2014-9471",
    "details_link": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-9471",
    "hosts_affected": [
      {
        "id": 1,
        "hostname": "macbook-1",
        "url": "https://fleet.example.com/hosts/1"
      },
      {
        "id": 2,
        "hostname": "macbook-2",
        "url": "https://fleet.example.com/hosts/2"
      }
    ]
  }
}

You can configure Fleet to create a Jira issue or Zendesk ticket instead of a webhook request.

Follow the steps below to configure Jira or Zendesk as a ticket destination:

1. In the top bar of the Fleet UI, select your avatar and then Settings.
2. Select Integrations > Add integration.
3. Under Ticket destination select Jira or select Zendesk.
4. Enter your ticket destination's credentials.
5. In the top bar, select Software > Manage automations.
6. Select Enable vulnerability automations and choose Ticket.
7. Under Ticket destination, select your ticket destination and select Save.

The Jira and Zendesk ticket destinations are currently in beta.

Policy automations

Policy automations send a webhook request if a policy is newly failing on at least one host.

Note that a policy is "newly failing" if a host updated its response from "no response" to "failing" or from "passing" to "failing."

Fleet sends these webhook requests once per day. If two policies are newly failing within the day, two webhook requests are sent. This interval can be updated with the webhook_settings.interval configuration option using the config yaml document and the fleetctl apply command.

Example webhook payload:

POST https://server.com/example

{
  "timestamp": "0000-00-00T00:00:00Z",
  "policy": {
    "id": 1,
      "name": "Is Gatekeeper enabled?",
      "query": "SELECT 1 FROM gatekeeper WHERE assessments_enabled = 1;",
      "description": "Checks if gatekeeper is enabled on macOS devices.",
      "author_id": 1,
      "author_name": "John",
      "author_email": "john@example.com",
      "resolution": "Turn on Gatekeeper feature in System Preferences.",
      "passing_host_count": 2000,
      "failing_host_count": 300
  },
  "hosts": [
    {
      "id": 1,
      "hostname": "macbook-1",
      "url": "https://fleet.example.com/hosts/1"
    },
    {
      "id": 2,
      "hostname": "macbbook-2",
      "url": "https://fleet.example.com/hosts/2"
    }
  ]
}

To enable policy automations, navigate to Policies > Manage automations in the Fleet UI.

Host status automations

Host status automations send a webhook request if a configured percentage of hosts have not checked in to Fleet for a configured number of days.

Fleet sends these webhook requests once per day. This interval can be updated with the webhook_settings.interval configuration option using the config yaml document and the fleetctl apply command.

Example webhook payload:

POST https://server.com/example

{
  "text": "More than X% of your hosts have not checked into Fleet
           for more than X days. You’ve been sent this message
           because the Host status webhook is enabeld in your Fleet
           instance.",
  "data": {
    "unseen_hosts": 1,
    "total_hosts": 2,
    "days_unseen": 3,
  }
}

To enable and configure host status automations, navigate to Settings > Organization settings > Host status webhook in the Fleet UI.