How do I set up monitors and collectors?

Monitors help automate evidence collection and proactively flag compliance issues. Follow these steps to configure your monitors properly and ensure they’re aligned with your audit scope.

The majority of monitors in Thoropass are driven by integrations. Monitors will be prescribed to your organization after you install key integrations, including AWS, GCP, Azure, and more.

After completing your scoping call, you can view which systems and services are in scope by clicking the telescope icon in the top-right corner of your dashboard. If you are missing any systems in scope your compliance program, add them from this screen.

This view will guide which integrations and monitors are relevant for your audit.

Next, connect all in-scope tools and environments (e.g., AWS, Azure, Okta, Jira).
Each integration will automatically generate a set of monitors related to that system’s controls.

Once integrations are live, navigate to the Monitors page to view all active monitors across your connected systems.

Some monitors may be automatically created for services that aren't relevant to your audit.

Most commonly, this applies to Cloud Service Provider (CSP) environments that are not in use (e.g., if you're only using AWS but monitors were generated for Azure or GCP).

To reduce noise, disable any monitors tied to out-of-scope services.

For any monitors you want to stay on top of, click into them and assign yourself as a watcher.

Watchers receive weekly digest emails with updates about failing or broken monitors — ideal for compliance owners, engineers, or control leads.

Monitors with a “Violations found” status aren’t returning valid results and require action.

Follow the instructions linked in the monitor or task to investigate and resolve the issue.