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Alerts

ScopeMSPRoleL1 Read to view · L1 Read/Write to act

Alerts lists everything Octiga has raised across every tenant you manage, whatever caused it. Come here for a single, fleet-wide view rather than working tenant by tenant.

An alert is raised from one of three sources:

  • An event — a Microsoft 365 audit event graded warning or worse (see Events).
  • A deviation — a baseline that’s stopped passing. Deviation alerts are always warning; deviations carry no severity of their own.
  • A notification — an operational message from Octiga itself.
The Alerts screen, showing the filter bar above a table of alerts across every tenant
The Alerts screen, filtered to the last 14 days
  1. Search
  2. Severity
  3. Client
  4. Date range
  5. Show Info toggle
  6. The alerts table

Columns: Created, Severity, Client, Operation, Description, Actor, Affected user. The list loads more rows as you scroll.

Filters — search, a severity dropdown (All severities, Warning, Danger, Critical), a client (tenant) dropdown built from whichever tenants appear in the current results, and a date range (7, 14, 30 or 90 days, or all time).

Show Info is off by default. Switch it on to bring info-grade events (those that didn’t reach warning on arrival) into scope. With it off there’s nothing to show, so the Info option doesn’t appear in the severity dropdown either.

Selecting a row opens the alert in a side sheet.

The alert detail side sheet, showing the alert's overview, a location map, and Technical details and History tabs
An alert's detail sheet
  1. Location map (event-sourced alerts only)
  2. Actor, Country, Region, ASN, IP and Sign-in rows
  3. Overview · Technical details · History tabs

The map, the location rows and the rule-creation options appear only for an alert raised from an event. A deviation or notification alert shows the overview, Technical details and History.

ChannelWhat it carries
In-appEvery alert, shown here
EmailSent to whoever is subscribed at that severity — see Alert recipients
PSA ticketRaised in a connected PSA if one is mapped for that severity and client — see PSA integrations
Live browser pushA real-time notification for anyone with Octiga open

From an event-sourced alert’s detail sheet you can create a rule against one of four conditions:

  • Country
  • Region — a place you define on a map, as a point and a radius
  • ASN / network operator
  • IP address — an exact address or a CIDR range

Drawing a region opens a map dialog where you place a point and set a radius before naming it. See Event rules for the rest of the rule dialog and what a rule does.

ActionWhat it doesMinimum role
DismissRemoves the alert from view (or dims it in place under Show Info)L2 Support
Create ruleOpens the rule dialog, pre-filled from this alert (event-sourced alerts only)L2 Support
Block userDisables the actor’s account and ends its sessionsL1 Read/Write
Reset passwordIssues the actor a new passwordL1 Read/Write

Block user and Reset password aren’t offered for an actor that isn’t a real person, or where the action doesn’t apply.