Action Centre Overview
The Action Centre is Guardian Pro's unified hub for managing everything that needs attention in your AWS environment. It brings together security findings, cost optimization insights, compliance gaps, and AI-powered recommendations into a single, prioritized interface.
Rather than switching between separate dashboards for security, cost, and compliance, the Action Centre consolidates all actionable items into one place, with powerful tools for filtering, grouping, prioritizing, and resolving them.
What You See in the Action Centre
When you open the Action Centre, you are presented with a prioritized list of actions -- issues Guardian Pro has identified in your infrastructure that warrant review or remediation. Each action includes:
- Severity -- Critical, High, Medium, or Low.
- Category -- Security, Cost Optimization, Operational Excellence, or Architecture.
- Affected resource -- The specific AWS resource with the issue.
- Description -- A clear explanation of what was found and why it matters.
- Remediation guidance -- Step-by-step instructions for resolving the issue, and in many cases, a one-click automated fix.
Actions are sorted by severity and impact by default, ensuring the most pressing issues are always visible at the top.
Lenses
Lenses are pre-configured views that let you look at your findings through different analytical perspectives. Each lens emphasizes a different dimension of your data:
| Lens | What It Shows |
|---|---|
| All | The complete, unfiltered list of all active findings. The default starting view. |
| Cost Exposure | Findings ranked by their estimated financial impact. Useful for identifying the highest-value savings opportunities first. |
| Debt Age | Findings sorted by how long they have been open. Older findings represent accumulated technical or security debt. |
| Quick Wins | Findings that can be resolved quickly with minimal risk. Ideal for rapid score improvement. |
| By Service | Findings grouped by AWS service, showing which services have the most issues. |
| Compliance | Findings mapped to compliance framework controls. Helps you focus on gaps in specific regulatory requirements. |
| Topology | Findings overlaid on your infrastructure topology, showing how issues relate to your architecture. |
Switch between lenses using the lens selector at the top of the Action Centre. Lenses can be combined with filters for even more targeted views.
Quick Wins is an excellent starting point when you want to make rapid progress. These are findings that Guardian Pro has determined can be safely remediated in seconds with minimal blast radius.
Key Capabilities
Remediation
Guardian Pro does not just find problems -- it fixes them. For hundreds of finding types, you can preview exactly what will change, then apply the fix with a single click. The full remediation workflow includes:
- Preview -- See the exact changes that will be made before confirming.
- Execute -- Apply the fix to your AWS environment.
- Monitor -- Track progress in real time.
- Rollback -- Reverse a remediation if needed. See Rollback.
Smart Groups
When the same issue affects multiple resources (for example, 15 S3 buckets without versioning), Guardian Pro automatically groups these into a Smart Group. This reduces noise and lets you remediate related issues as a batch.
Bulk Actions
Select multiple findings and perform bulk actions -- remediate, acknowledge, or suppress them all at once. This is particularly useful after a scan identifies a pattern of similar issues across your environment.
Export
Need to share findings with your team, include them in an audit report, or process them externally? Export your findings as CSV or JSON with full metadata.
Action Statuses
Every finding in the Action Centre has a status that reflects its current lifecycle state:
| Status | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Active | The finding is open and has not been acted upon. |
| Remediating | A remediation is currently in progress for this finding. |
| Remediated | The finding has been successfully resolved through remediation. |
| Rolling Back | A previously applied remediation is being reversed. |
| Rolled Back | The remediation was successfully reversed. The finding is active again. |
| Rollback Failed | The rollback attempt did not complete successfully. Manual investigation may be needed. |
| Suppressed | The finding has been intentionally suppressed (accepted risk). It will not affect the health score. |
| Acknowledged | The finding has been reviewed and acknowledged. It will not affect the health score but remains visible. |
For a deeper dive into how findings work, see Understanding Findings.
Navigating from Other Pages
Several other Guardian Pro pages link directly into the Action Centre with pre-applied filters:
- Dashboard -- Clicking a severity count opens the Action Centre filtered to that severity.
- Compliance Dashboard -- Clicking a failed control opens related findings.
- Architecture Advisor -- Clicking a risk opens the associated findings.
- Cost Intelligence -- Clicking a recommendation links to the relevant finding.
This cross-linking ensures the Action Centre is always the destination for taking action, regardless of where you start.
Next Steps
- Understanding Findings -- Learn the anatomy of a finding.
- Filtering and Search -- Find specific findings quickly.
- Smart Groups -- Understand automatic grouping.
- Remediation -- Fix findings with confidence.
- Bulk Actions -- Act on multiple findings at once.
- Export -- Share findings externally.