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Understanding the Monitor Overview Page

The Monitors page gives you a centralized view of all active compliance monitors in your workspace.

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Written by James Fletcher
Updated over a month ago

Feature Walkthrough: Monitors List View

The Monitors page gives you a centralized view of all active compliance monitors in your workspace. From this screen, you can quickly assess system health, investigate violations, and manage your audit readiness.

Pictured: The Monitor Overview (List View) Page

Navigation & Layout

The Monitors page is divided into three primary sections:

  1. Left Sidebar (Filters)

  2. Top Summary Panel

  3. Monitor Table (Main Content)

Let’s break them down:

Filter Panel (Left Sidebar)

Use these filters to narrow down which monitors are displayed in the table:

  • Status

    • Healthy: No issues found.

    • Flagged: Violations detected.

    • Connection Error: Integration or data issue.

    • No Data Detected: Nothing returned, often due to lack of resources

  • Active

    • Active: Monitors currently enabled.

    • Inactive: Monitors that have been disabled (not contributing to audit evidence).

  • Source(s)

    • Filter monitors by their data source (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure, Bitbucket).

    • Helpful for reviewing coverage across cloud providers or tools in use.

Top Summary Panel

This summary provides a high-level snapshot of your monitoring coverage:

  • Monitors with Violations: Number of monitors currently flagged, reporting 1 or more potential issues.

  • Active Monitors: Total number of enabled monitors across your workspace.

  • Controls Monitored: Number of unique compliance controls being actively monitored by Thoropass

✨ Use this to gauge how much automated coverage you have and where to focus attention

Monitor Table (Main Area)

Each row in the table represents a monitor, and includes:

Column

Description

ID

Unique identifier for the monitor (e.g., AWS-52)

Name

Human-readable monitor title and associated platform (e.g., "[GCP] All Compute Instances...")

Health Status

Shows current status (e.g., Violations Found, Healthy)

Enable?

Indicates if the monitor is currently active (toggleable from detail view)

Last Run

Timestamp of the most recent execution of the monitor query

💡 Additional Features:

  • Select one or more monitors using the checkboxes to bulk Enable/Disable or Watch them.

  • Click a monitor name to open its detail page — where you can review logic, related controls, and address violations.

Enable / Watch Actions (Top Right)

  • Enable: Activate selected monitors (if previously disabled).

  • Watch: Subscribe to monitor updates — you’ll get email summaries for any that are failing, broken, or newly flagged.

Practical Use Cases

  • Daily triage: Use filters to review all flagged or broken monitors.

  • Audit prep: Confirm all active monitors are healthy and mapped to in-scope systems.

  • Platform-specific review: Filter by AWS, GCP, Azure, etc., to evaluate coverage per cloud environment.

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