Cloud activity tracking in Guardrails
Track your multi-cloud environment's daily progression with new activity dashboards.

Turbot Guardrails now provides enhanced visibility into your cloud environment with cloud activity tracking dashboards. These dashboards transform our comprehensive audit data into daily snapshots and trends over time.
Guardrails already tracks resource inventory, configuration changes, and governance control posture across AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, GitHub, and ServiceNow in real-time. This data is available through audit trails in the console activity tab, queries, and streaming notifications. Now available in the Metrics tab, these new cloud activity dashboards visualize this data through easy-to-read graphs showing how your environment changes every day. Each view provides a 30-day history with daily stats to track trends in your cloud FinOps and security posture, resource changes, and operational patterns.

Let's explore how each dashboard helps you monitor and understand your cloud environment's daily progression through a few success cases from early adopters of the feature.
Controls over time
Track your governance posture through an intuitive stacked bar chart showing daily control state changes across active controls, alerts, errors, and muted states. Quick-reference cards compare current states against last week to help identify significant changes in your security and compliance posture.
Use Case: A financial tech enterprise cloud team who has been using the feature already updated their S3 bucket encryption-in-transit policy across 1000 AWS accounts. The Controls dashboard shows a spike in alerts as non-compliant buckets are detected, some accounts in "Enforce" mode saw an immediate drop in alerts, while other accounts in "Check" mode saw a daily progression as teams address these encryption requirements after receiving Guardrail notifications. This helped the cloud team validate that remediation efforts are making progress and identify any accounts falling behind.
Resources over time
Monitor your cloud infrastructure footprint through daily resource counts, creations, updates, and deletions. Info cards highlight prior week trends, making it easy to spot unusual activity or validate cleanup efforts.
Use Case: A life science enterprise cloud team noticed an unexpected 40% spike in cloud resources across their development accounts. The Resources dashboard highlighted this unusual growth, prompting an investigation that revealed a misconfigured auto-scaling group in their cloud account. The team was able to quickly correct the configuration and terminate the unnecessary instances, avoiding significant cost overrun.
Actions over time
Understand how often Guardrails actions are making changes in your environment through a daily activity timeline. Identify change frequencies, understand typical baselines, and spot unusual spikes in cloud operations. This visibility helps teams understand the value and impact of automated governance.
Use Case: A SaaS company is meticulous with their infrastructure as code reviews and typically catches misconfigurations before they are deployed. They use Guardrails as a safety net to catch any issues that may arise in runtime. The Actions dashboard revealed an unexpected daily spike in activity, leading to the discovery that a new application feature was dynamically creating S3 buckets without versioning enabled. Guardrails monitoring the runtime identified the misconfiguration and automatically enabled versioning on each new bucket per policy. Visibility from the dashboard into the activity allowed the Cloud team to work with the App team to fix the problem upstream.
Getting Started
For existing Turbot Guardrails Enterprise customers, these dashboards are available in TE v5.48 or later. Once enabled, metrics will begin populating moving forward. View Alerts over time on the homepage and all other dashboards in the Metrics tab at the cloud account, folder, or global level.
For teams new to Guardrails, start your 14-day free trial for a consolidated multi-cloud activity trail and powerful visualizations to govern your cloud environment.