Prometheus community Helm charts
This report summarizes scanner evidence for prometheus-community/helm-charts, a Mustache project with 6,226 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 236,166 lines of code across 1084 source files, recording 488 pattern matches distributed across 11 syntactic categories. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 2.2 (Low pattern signal); it is not an authorship estimate.
Use the findings to ask whether maintainers can explain intent, verify dependencies, simplify unnecessary scaffolding, and focus review effort. Risk Payload v1 adds ownership, supply-chain, over-engineering, and review-effort vectors when available. These are prompts for human verification, not probabilities, security findings, or measured maintenance costs.
Use each vector to guide manual verification of the underlying findings.
Payload schema: 1.0.0 · Engine: 2.0.0 · Scoring: heuristic-density-v1 · Scan date: 2026-10-31.
Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 478 finding(s).
Are imports declared and package/API names verified? 1 finding(s).
Are wrappers, guards, and repeated structures necessary? 18 finding(s).
Which changes need focused human review? 488 finding(s).
This chart tracks the legacy adjusted pattern score across scan runs. Changes can reflect source changes, scan coverage, or detector/scoring versions; they do not measure AI adoption or prove that a team refactored code. Compare runs only when their scoring versions are compatible. The dashed line tracks the raw pattern-hit count.
Groups findings by configured severity weight. Severity is not a confidence estimate, security rating, or proof that a package is missing. Verify imports against the project's manifests and inspect each finding in its local design context.
This horizontal bar chart shows where configured pattern scores accumulate across directories. Treat the bars as locations to inspect, not as evidence of authorship or code quality. Use the file-level findings to decide whether a directory needs a focused ownership, dependency, complexity, or review check.
The scanner identified 488 distinct pattern matches across 11 syntactic categories. Each entry below represents a discrete location in the source code where the engine recorded a detector match to inspect in context. Expand any category row to inspect the individual file paths, line numbers, code snippets, and the lexical context (CODE, COMMENT, or STRING) in which each match was detected.
Reading the findings table: The Severity column indicates the configured finding weight (CRITICAL / HIGH / MEDIUM / LOW). The Context column identifies whether the match occurred inside executable code, an inline comment, or a string literal — legacy comment-context matches receive a ×1.5 score weight. The ⚡ bolt icon marks clustered matches: three or more patterns within a 10-line window, each receiving an additional ×1.5 density multiplier under the legacy scoring model.
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | charts/kube-state-metrics/values.yaml | 21 | # or | COMMENT |
| LOW | charts/kube-state-metrics/values.yaml | 41 | enabled: false | COMMENT |
| LOW | charts/kube-state-metrics/values.yaml | 101 | create: true | COMMENT |
| LOW | charts/kube-state-metrics/values.yaml | 121 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | charts/kube-state-metrics/values.yaml | 181 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | charts/kube-state-metrics/values.yaml | 201 | serviceAccount: | COMMENT |
| LOW | charts/kube-state-metrics/values.yaml | 361 | readOnlyRootFilesystem: true | COMMENT |
| LOW | charts/kube-state-metrics/values.yaml | 401 | podLabels: {} | COMMENT |
| LOW | charts/kube-state-metrics/values.yaml | 421 | metricOptInList: [] | COMMENT |
| LOW | charts/kube-state-metrics/values.yaml | 481 | # - validatingadmissionpolicybindings | COMMENT |
| LOW | charts/kube-state-metrics/values.yaml | 541 | # We usually recommend not to specify default resources and to leave this as a conscious | COMMENT |
| LOW | charts/kube-state-metrics/values.yaml | 561 | # Enable vertical pod autoscaler support for kube-state-metrics | COMMENT |
| LOW | charts/kube-state-metrics/values.yaml | 581 | minAllowed: {} | COMMENT |
| LOW | charts/kube-state-metrics/values.yaml | 601 | # - configMap: | COMMENT |
| LOW | charts/kube-state-metrics/values.yaml | 621 | initContainers: [] | COMMENT |
| LOW | charts/alertmanager-snmp-notifier/values.yaml | 21 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | charts/alertmanager-snmp-notifier/values.yaml | 41 | trapTemplates: {} | COMMENT |
| LOW | charts/alertmanager-snmp-notifier/values.yaml | 61 | # template: | | COMMENT |
| LOW | charts/alertmanager-snmp-notifier/values.yaml | 161 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | charts/prometheus-windows-exporter/values.yaml | 21 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | charts/prometheus-windows-exporter/values.yaml | 101 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | charts/prometheus-windows-exporter/values.yaml | 141 | # Scheme/protocol to use for scraping. | COMMENT |
| LOW | charts/prometheus-windows-exporter/values.yaml | 181 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | charts/prometheus-windows-exporter/values.yaml | 201 | # Only valid in Prometheus versions 2.27.0 and newer. | COMMENT |
| LOW | charts/prometheus-windows-exporter/values.yaml | 241 | ## | COMMENT |
| LOW | charts/prometheus-windows-exporter/values.yaml | 281 | # - ns1.svc.cluster-domain.example | COMMENT |
| LOW | charts/prometheus-windows-exporter/values.yaml | 301 | ## Additional container arguments | COMMENT |
| LOW | charts/prometheus-windows-exporter/values.yaml | 321 | # - name: <secretName> | COMMENT |
| LOW | charts/kube-prometheus-stack/values.yaml | 1 | # Default values for kube-prometheus-stack. | COMMENT |
| LOW | charts/kube-prometheus-stack/values.yaml | 21 | ## Provide a name to substitute for the full names of resources | COMMENT |
| LOW | charts/kube-prometheus-stack/values.yaml | 61 | ## | COMMENT |
| LOW | charts/kube-prometheus-stack/values.yaml | 81 | affinity: {} | COMMENT |
| LOW | charts/kube-prometheus-stack/values.yaml | 101 | ## If specified, the pod's topology spread constraints. | COMMENT |
| LOW | charts/kube-prometheus-stack/values.yaml | 321 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | charts/kube-prometheus-stack/values.yaml | 341 | # groups: | COMMENT |
| LOW | charts/kube-prometheus-stack/values.yaml | 361 | ## ref: https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/pull-image-private-registry/ | COMMENT |
| LOW | charts/kube-prometheus-stack/values.yaml | 441 | ## | COMMENT |
| LOW | charts/kube-prometheus-stack/values.yaml | 461 | # - from: | COMMENT |
| LOW | charts/kube-prometheus-stack/values.yaml | 481 | # matchLabels: | COMMENT |
| LOW | charts/kube-prometheus-stack/values.yaml | 521 | ## | COMMENT |
| LOW | charts/kube-prometheus-stack/values.yaml | 601 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | charts/kube-prometheus-stack/values.yaml | 621 | # | COMMENT |
| LOW | charts/kube-prometheus-stack/values.yaml | 661 | ## | COMMENT |
| LOW | charts/kube-prometheus-stack/values.yaml | 721 | ## Session persistence configuration for the route rule. | COMMENT |
| LOW | charts/kube-prometheus-stack/values.yaml | 761 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | charts/kube-prometheus-stack/values.yaml | 821 | ## Requires Gateway API CRDs and a controller that support HTTPRoute timeouts. | COMMENT |
| LOW | charts/kube-prometheus-stack/values.yaml | 861 | nodePort: 30903 | COMMENT |
| LOW | charts/kube-prometheus-stack/values.yaml | 941 | ## Additional labels | COMMENT |
| LOW | charts/kube-prometheus-stack/values.yaml | 981 | ## tlsConfig: TLS configuration to use when scraping the endpoint. For example if using istio mTLS. | COMMENT |
| LOW | charts/kube-prometheus-stack/values.yaml | 1001 | # regex: ^(.*)$ | COMMENT |
| LOW | charts/kube-prometheus-stack/values.yaml | 1041 | pullPolicy: IfNotPresent | COMMENT |
| LOW | charts/kube-prometheus-stack/values.yaml | 1061 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | charts/kube-prometheus-stack/values.yaml | 1081 | # - example-config | COMMENT |
| LOW | charts/kube-prometheus-stack/values.yaml | 1101 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | charts/kube-prometheus-stack/values.yaml | 1141 | ## Storage is the definition of how storage will be used by the Alertmanager instances. | COMMENT |
| LOW | charts/kube-prometheus-stack/values.yaml | 1181 | ## Define resources requests and limits for single Pods. | COMMENT |
| LOW | charts/kube-prometheus-stack/values.yaml | 1201 | ## ref: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/scheduling-eviction/assign-pod-node/ | COMMENT |
| LOW | charts/kube-prometheus-stack/values.yaml | 1221 | # effect: "NoSchedule" | COMMENT |
| LOW | charts/kube-prometheus-stack/values.yaml | 1261 | ## ListenLocal makes the Alertmanager server listen on loopback, so that it does not bind against the Pod IP. | COMMENT |
| LOW | charts/kube-prometheus-stack/values.yaml | 1281 | # - containerPort: 8082 | COMMENT |
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| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MEDIUM | charts/kube-state-metrics/values.yaml | 296 | ## Create a scrapeConfig resource for scraping the kube-state-metrics service. Use this instead of serviceMonitor | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | charts/kube-state-metrics/values.yaml | 576 | # Define the max allowed resources for the pod | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | charts/kube-state-metrics/values.yaml | 580 | # Define the min allowed resources for the pod | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | charts/kube-prometheus-stack/values.yaml | 536 | # Define the max allowed resources for the pod | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | charts/kube-prometheus-stack/values.yaml | 540 | # Define the min allowed resources for the pod | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | charts/kube-prometheus-stack/values.yaml | 3591 | ## Create a servicemonitor for the operator | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | charts/kube-prometheus-stack/values.yaml | 3746 | # Define the max allowed resources for the pod | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | charts/kube-prometheus-stack/values.yaml | 3750 | # Define the min allowed resources for the pod | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | charts/kube-prometheus-stack/values.yaml | 4182 | # Define the max allowed resources for the pod | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | charts/kube-prometheus-stack/values.yaml | 4186 | # Define the min allowed resources for the pod | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | …s-stack/templates/prometheus-operator/certmanager.yaml | 3 | # Create a selfsigned Issuer, in order to create a root CA certificate for | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | …s-stack/templates/prometheus-operator/certmanager.yaml | 30 | # Create an Issuer that uses the above generated CA certificate to issue certs | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | charts/prometheus-node-exporter/values.yaml | 128 | ## Creating a service is enabled by default | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | charts/prometheus-node-exporter/values.yaml | 617 | # Define the max allowed resources for the pod | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | charts/prometheus-node-exporter/values.yaml | 621 | # Define the min allowed resources for the pod | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | …-operator-admission-webhook/templates/certmanager.yaml | 3 | # Create a selfsigned Issuer in order to create a root CA certificate for | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | …-operator-admission-webhook/templates/certmanager.yaml | 32 | # Create an Issuer that uses the above generated CA certificate to issue certs | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | charts/prometheus-adapter/templates/certmanager.yaml | 3 | # Create a selfsigned Issuer, in order to create a root CA certificate for | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | charts/prometheus-adapter/templates/certmanager.yaml | 42 | # Create an Issuer that uses the above generated CA certificate to issue certs | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | charts/prometheus-pingdom-exporter/values.yaml | 69 | # Define a serviceAccount name | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | charts/prometheus-blackbox-exporter/values.yaml | 485 | # Define the max allowed resources for the pod | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | charts/prometheus-blackbox-exporter/values.yaml | 489 | # Define the min allowed resources for the pod | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | charts/prometheus-elasticsearch-exporter/values.yaml | 396 | # Create a service account | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | scripts/generate-labeler.sh | 6 | # This file is auto-generated by scripts/generate-labeler.sh. Do not edit manually. | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | .github/advanced-issue-labeler.yml | 1 | # This file is auto-generated by scripts/generate-labeler.sh. Do not edit manually. | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | .github/workflows/renovate-custom-hooks.yaml | 74 | # Define the target directory | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | .github/workflows/renovate-custom-hooks.yaml | 89 | # Create a temporary file for JSON output | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | .github/workflows/renovate-custom-hooks.yaml | 113 | # Create a temporary file for the final JSON payload | COMMENT |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HIGH | …theus-stack/charts/crds/crds/crd-prometheusagents.yaml | 0 | type: string resourcefieldref: description: |- selects a resource of the container: only resources limits and requests ( | STRING |
| HIGH | …rometheus-stack/charts/crds/crds/crd-prometheuses.yaml | 0 | type: string resourcefieldref: description: |- selects a resource of the container: only resources limits and requests ( | STRING |
| HIGH | …ometheus-stack/charts/crds/crds/crd-alertmanagers.yaml | 0 | type: string resourcefieldref: description: |- selects a resource of the container: only resources limits and requests ( | STRING |
| HIGH | …rometheus-stack/charts/crds/crds/crd-thanosrulers.yaml | 0 | type: string resourcefieldref: description: |- selects a resource of the container: only resources limits and requests ( | STRING |
| HIGH | …r-crds/charts/crds/templates/crd-prometheusagents.yaml | 0 | type: string resourcefieldref: description: |- selects a resource of the container: only resources limits and requests ( | STRING |
| HIGH | …rator-crds/charts/crds/templates/crd-prometheuses.yaml | 0 | type: string resourcefieldref: description: |- selects a resource of the container: only resources limits and requests ( | STRING |
| HIGH | …ator-crds/charts/crds/templates/crd-alertmanagers.yaml | 0 | type: string resourcefieldref: description: |- selects a resource of the container: only resources limits and requests ( | STRING |
| HIGH | …rator-crds/charts/crds/templates/crd-thanosrulers.yaml | 0 | type: string resourcefieldref: description: |- selects a resource of the container: only resources limits and requests ( | STRING |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | charts/alertmanager-snmp-notifier/values.yaml | 212 | # Set path to cloudwatch-exporter telemtery-path | COMMENT |
| LOW | charts/kube-prometheus-stack/values.yaml | 4901 | ## Set shards to null to omit spec.shards from the Prometheus custom resource (the operator then | COMMENT |
| LOW | charts/prometheus-redis-exporter/values.yaml | 147 | # Set path to redis-exporter telemtery-path | COMMENT |
| LOW | charts/prometheus-pgbouncer-exporter/values.yaml | 33 | # Set path to cloudwatch-exporter telemtery-path | COMMENT |
| LOW | charts/prometheus-memcached-exporter/values.yaml | 86 | # Set path to memcached-exporter telemtery-path | COMMENT |
| LOW | charts/prometheus-nginx-exporter/values.yaml | 91 | # Set path to nginx-exporter telemtery-path | COMMENT |
| LOW | charts/prometheus-consul-exporter/values.yaml | 68 | # Set path to consul-exporter telemtery-path | COMMENT |
| LOW | …prometheus-yet-another-cloudwatch-exporter/values.yaml | 159 | # Set path to cloudwatch-exporter telemtery-path | COMMENT |
| LOW | charts/prometheus-cloudwatch-exporter/values.yaml | 164 | # Set path to cloudwatch-exporter telemtery-path | COMMENT |
| LOW | charts/prometheus-postgres-exporter/values.yaml | 38 | # Set path to cloudwatch-exporter telemtery-path | COMMENT |
| LOW | charts/prometheus-postgres-exporter/values.yaml | 85 | # Set path to postgres-exporter telemetry-path | COMMENT |
| LOW | charts/prometheus-ipmi-exporter/values.yaml | 83 | # Set path to ipmi-exporter telemtery-path | COMMENT |
| LOW | charts/prometheus-fastly-exporter/values.yaml | 108 | # Set path to fastly-exporter telemtery-path | COMMENT |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MEDIUM | charts/kube-prometheus-stack/values.yaml | 5057 | ## If additional scrape configurations are already deployed in a single secret file you can use this section. | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | charts/kube-prometheus-stack/values.yaml | 5086 | ## them separately from the helm deployment, you can use this section. | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | charts/kube-prometheus-stack/values.yaml | 5108 | ## them separately from the helm deployment, you can use this section. | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | charts/prometheus-cloudwatch-exporter/values.yaml | 102 | # Configuration is rendered with `tpl` function, therefore you can use any Helm variables and/or templates here | COMMENT |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | …ts/kube-prometheus-stack/hack/sync_prometheus_rules.py | 369 | def add_rules_conditions_from_condition_map(rules, indent=4): | CODE |
| LOW | …ts/kube-prometheus-stack/hack/sync_prometheus_rules.py | 375 | def remove_additional_aggregation_labels_for_alerts(rules, alert_names, indent=4): | CODE |
| LOW | …ts/kube-prometheus-stack/hack/sync_prometheus_rules.py | 391 | def add_rules_per_rule_conditions(rules, group, indent=4): | CODE |
| LOW | …ts/kube-prometheus-stack/hack/sync_prometheus_rules.py | 460 | def add_custom_annotations_etcd_runbook_urls(rules, group, indent=4): | CODE |
| LOW | …ts/kube-prometheus-stack/hack/sync_prometheus_rules.py | 580 | def add_custom_keep_firing_for(rules, indent=4): | CODE |
| LOW | …ts/kube-prometheus-stack/hack/sync_prometheus_rules.py | 714 | def write_rules_names_template(): | CODE |
| LOW⚡ | …/kube-prometheus-stack/hack/sync_grafana_dashboards.py | 272 | def patch_json_set_timezone_as_variable(content): | STRING |
| LOW⚡ | …/kube-prometheus-stack/hack/sync_grafana_dashboards.py | 277 | def patch_json_set_editable_as_variable(content): | STRING |
| LOW⚡ | …/kube-prometheus-stack/hack/sync_grafana_dashboards.py | 282 | def patch_json_set_interval_as_variable(content): | STRING |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HIGH | …ts/kube-prometheus-stack/hack/sync_prometheus_rules.py | 416 | # labels: cannot be null, if a rule does not have any labels by default, the labels block | COMMENT |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HIGH | …/kube-prometheus-stack/hack/sync_grafana_dashboards.py | 266 | except (ValueError, KeyError): | CODE |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | …ts/kube-prometheus-stack/hack/sync_prometheus_rules.py | 329 | CODE | |
| LOW | …ts/kube-prometheus-stack/hack/sync_prometheus_rules.py | 617 | CODE | |
| LOW | …ts/kube-prometheus-stack/hack/sync_prometheus_rules.py | 726 | CODE | |
| LOW | …/kube-prometheus-stack/hack/sync_grafana_dashboards.py | 351 | CODE |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MEDIUM | charts/kube-state-metrics/values.yaml | 115 | # Add permissions for CustomResources' apiGroups in Role/ClusterRole. Should be used in conjunction with Custom Resour | COMMENT |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | charts/prometheus-couchdb-exporter/templates/NOTES.txt | 28 | ###### WARNING: The extensions/v1beta1 API versions of Ingress is ##### | COMMENT |