Read the dashboard together
Overview requiresdashboard.read. Its Next step points towards unfinished setup or assessment work.
Read alignment alongside coverage. In an illustrative example, ten passing results and ten checks without usable evidence do not establish that all twenty expectations are met. Not assessed yet means there are no current verified results to score; it is not a score of zero.
Open a client in Client checks to inspect individual results. The Needs attention queue links to issue evidence. Tool health is workspace-wide; open Workspace health for detailed collection and coverage checks.
Refresh evidence deliberately
Select Refresh evidence when you need a discovery sweep. This requires bothsweep.execute and sweep.read. It requests workspace collection; the global client selector does not turn this action into a single-client sync.
Review the sweep outcome and each source’s result. A finished attempt with no facts is not proof of a healthy environment: a source may have failed or supplied no usable observations.
Evidence collection and evaluation are distinct milestones. After confirming the intended evidence is available, use the relevant Run checks workflow and inspect its evaluation time. Refreshing the dashboard alone does not establish a fresh assessment.
Choose your next task
- Missing or stale evidence: open Workspace health, fix the source or mapping problem and confirm fresh observations.
- An observed failure: open Issues, inspect evidence and decide the follow-up.
- A question requiring human judgement: open Reviews or the client’s manual checks and record the review evidence.
- A proposed or attempted fix: open Activity for approvals and fix history.
Find your way around
The main navigation separates daily work—Overview, Clients, Issues, Reviews, Activity—from workspace configuration such as Standards, Integrations, MCP and Settings. On a narrow screen, open Main navigation for the same permitted destinations. Use the client selector and the page’s own scope labels together. A page reached from a specific client or control may carry an explicit filter. Check that scope before interpreting its counts or asking the assistant to explain it. Press ⌘K on macOS or Ctrl+K to open search. It offers page shortcuts immediately and searches clients and issues after at least two characters. Use the arrow keys and Enter to open a result. This app search is separate from the documentation site’s search. The header also provides Documentation and help, Ask Alignr, theme switching and the Account menu, including Account settings and Sign out. Permission-dependent pages and actions may be hidden.Inspect Activity and export audit history
Open Activity to choose:
The Audit trail destination opens Logs. Filter by Actor kind, Action, Record type, Record id, From and To. A closed issue’s view audit trail action opens its record-specific history.
Select Export filtered CSV to export the matching records, or Export CSV without filters. Export uses the whole matching result set rather than only the displayed page, up to 50,000 rows. If the export message says the row limit was reached, narrow the date range and export the remaining periods. Do not treat a truncated file as the complete trail.
Filters are reflected in the page URL, so an authorised colleague can open the same filtered view. Exported files should follow your organisation’s handling rules for operational records.