Manual: apparmor_status

AA-STATUS(8)						  AppArmor						AA-STATUS(8)

NAME
       aa-status - display various information about the current AppArmor policy.

SYNOPSIS
       aa-status [option]

DESCRIPTION
       aa-status will report various aspects of the current state of AppArmor confinement. By default, it displays the same
       information as if the --verbose argument were given. A sample of what this looks like is:

	 apparmor module is loaded.
	 110 profiles are loaded.
	 102 profiles are in enforce mode.
	 8 profiles are in complain mode.
	 Out of 129 processes running:
	 13 processes have profiles defined.
	 8 processes have profiles in enforce mode.
	 5 processes have profiles in complain mode.

       Other argument options are provided to report individual aspects, to support being used in scripts.

OPTIONS
       aa-status accepts only one argument at a time out of:

       --enabled
	   returns error code if AppArmor is not enabled.

       --profiled
	   displays the number of loaded AppArmor policies.

       --enforced
	   displays the number of loaded enforcing AppArmor policies.

       --complaining
	   displays the number of loaded non-enforcing AppArmor policies.

       --kill
	   displays the number of loaded enforcing AppArmor policies that will kill tasks on policy violations.

       --prompt
	   displays the number of loaded enforcing AppArmor policies, with fallback to userspace mediation.

       --special-unconfined
	   displays the number of loaded non-enforcing AppArmor policies that are in the special unconfined mode.

       --process-mixed displays the number of processes confined by profile stacks with profiles in different modes.
       --verbose
	   displays multiple data points about loaded AppArmor policy set (the default action if no arguments are given).

       --json
	   displays multiple data points about loaded AppArmor policy set in a JSON format, fit for machine consumption.

       --pretty-json
	   same as --json, formatted to be readable by humans as well as by machines.

       --show
	   what data sets to show information about. Currently processes, profiles, all for both processes and profiles. The
	   default is all.

       --count
	   display only counts for selected information.

       --filter.mode=filter
	   Allows  specifying  a  posix	 regular  expression filter that will be applied against the displayed processes and
	   profiles apparmor profile mode, reducing the output.

       --filter.profiles=filter
	   Allows specifying a posix regular expression filter that will be applied  against  the  displayed  processes	 and
	   profiles confining profile, reducing the output.

       --filter.pid=filter
	   Allows specifying a posix regular expression filter that will be applied against the displayed processes, so that
	   only processes pids matching the expression will be displayed.

       --filter.exe=filter
	   Allows specifying a posix regular expression filter that will be applied against the displayed processes, so that
	   only processes executable name matching the expression will be displayed.

       --help
	   displays a short usage statement.

EXIT STATUS
       Upon exiting, aa-status will set its exit status to the following values:

       0   if apparmor is enabled and policy is loaded.

       1   if apparmor is not enabled/loaded.

       2   if apparmor is enabled but no policy is loaded.

       3   if the apparmor control files aren't available under /sys/kernel/security/.

       4   if the user running the script doesn't have enough privileges to read the apparmor control files.

       42  if an internal error occurred.

BUGS
       aa-status  must	be  run	 as  root to read the state of the loaded policy from the apparmor module. It uses the /proc
       filesystem to determine which processes are confined and so is susceptible to race conditions.

       If you find any additional bugs, please report them at .

SEE ALSO
       apparmor(7), apparmor.d(5), and .

AppArmor 5.0.0~beta1					 2026-04-08						AA-STATUS(8)