How is the Used Active Artifact metric calculated in Bitnami Secure Images

Products

• Bitnami Secure Images

Issue/Introduction

Within Bitnami Secure Images, there is a concept of Active Artifacts. This can be seen under the Request Applications page in Bitnami:

This article will discuss how the Active Artifacts are calculated.

Environment

Bitnami Secure Images

Resolution

There are two main factors that determine how active artifacts are calculated:

• Active artifacts are defined as a unique combination of application, format and base image, packaged for which continuous updates are enabled and delivered by the service.
• Non-hardened / Debian Linux based images do not count against the Active Artifact metric. 

More details regarding this can be found below:

https://ftpdocs.broadcom.com/cadocs/0/contentimages/Bitnami_Secure_Images_SaaS_Listing_2025_07_10.pdf#:~:text=Charge%20Metrics.%20The%20Service%20is%20available%20under,not%20count%20against%20the%20Active%20Artifact%20metric

https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware-tanzu/bitnami-secure-images/bitnami-secure-images/services/bsi-doc/concepts-index.html#active-artifacts:~:text=the%20CVE%20summary.-,Active%20artifacts,-Active%20artifacts%20are