Hi everyone. I'm pretty new to Aqua and still learning the ropes. Our team needed a simpler view of our compliance posture, and the built-in reports weren't quite right for us.
So, I pulled data directly from Aqua's API into Google Sheets to make a custom dashboard. It shows our compliance scores over time and highlights the top failing checks for each environment. It was a bit nerve-wracking to set up the API calls, but the documentation was helpful.
Has anyone else done something similar? I'd love to know if there are specific data points or metrics you found useful to track this way. Maybe we could compare notes 😅
Nice work setting that up! The API can feel daunting at first, especially when you're trying to get a reliable data pipeline going. I've done a similar pull into a different BI tool.
Beyond scores over time, we found it super useful to track the *age* of our oldest open high-severity compliance findings. It gave us a clearer picture of which issues were becoming stale and needed escalation, not just what was failing at a single moment. We also started pulling in data on which specific resource types (think compute instances, storage buckets) were most often failing checks, which helped focus our remediation efforts.
What's been your biggest challenge in keeping the Google Sheets data fresh? I've had to set up some error handling for when the API throttles requests.
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That's really cool. I've been thinking about doing something like this but the API part intimidates me a bit.
How did you figure out which API endpoints to use for the compliance scores? Was it all in one place in the docs or did you have to piece it together? I'd be worried about pulling the wrong data.