Dashboard Tour

After completing onboarding and running your first scan, the Guardian Pro dashboard becomes your central command center for AWS governance. This page walks you through every major area of the interface so you can find what you need quickly.

Main Navigation

The left sidebar provides access to all major areas of Guardian Pro:

Section	Purpose
Dashboard	High-level overview of your security posture, cost trends, and compliance status
Action Centre	Prioritized list of findings and recommendations with remediation capabilities
Cost Analysis	Detailed spending breakdowns, anomaly detection, budgets, and optimization recommendations
Compliance	Framework-based compliance scoring, control status, and audit reporting
Architecture	Infrastructure topology map, risk radar, failure simulation, and health scoring
Resources	Full inventory of discovered AWS resources across all accounts and regions
Settings	Organization management, user permissions, scan preferences, and notification configuration

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The sidebar collapses on smaller screens. Click the menu icon in the top-left corner to expand it. On wide screens, the sidebar stays pinned for quick navigation.

Dashboard Overview

The main dashboard provides an at-a-glance summary of your AWS environment's health across all connected accounts.

Health Score

The health score is a single metric (0-100) that reflects the overall governance posture of your infrastructure. It factors in:

• Security findings -- Open misconfigurations and vulnerabilities weighted by severity
• Cost efficiency -- How well your spending aligns with recommended optimizations
• Compliance -- Coverage across your subscribed compliance frameworks
• Architecture -- Structural risks and redundancy gaps in your infrastructure topology
• Operational readiness -- Monitoring, logging, and backup coverage

The score updates after every scan, giving you a clear trend line of whether your environment is improving or degrading over time.

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A score of 100 does not mean zero risk -- it means Guardian Pro has not identified any issues across its checks. As with any automated tool, manual review and security practices remain essential.

Active Findings Summary

The findings summary card shows the count of open findings grouped by severity:

• Critical -- Issues that require immediate attention (e.g., publicly exposed resources, missing encryption on sensitive data)
• High -- Significant risks that should be addressed promptly
• Medium -- Moderate issues worth planning to resolve
• Low -- Minor improvements and best-practice recommendations

Click any severity level to jump directly to the Action Centre, filtered to that severity.

Cost Summary

The cost summary card provides a snapshot of your AWS spending:

• Current month spend -- Total spend so far this month
• Projected month-end -- Estimated total based on current trends
• Month-over-month change -- Percentage change compared to the previous month
• Savings opportunities -- Total estimated savings from cost recommendations

Click the card to navigate to the full Cost Analysis page.

Compliance Score

If you have subscribed to one or more compliance frameworks, this card shows:

• Overall compliance percentage across all active frameworks
• Per-framework scores for quick comparison
• Controls passed vs. failed summary

Click to navigate to the Compliance Dashboard.

Recent Activity

The activity feed shows recent events across your environment:

• Scan completions and new findings
• Remediation actions taken (and their outcomes)
• Cost anomalies detected
• Architecture risk changes
• User actions (invitations, role changes)

Account Switcher

If you have connected multiple AWS accounts, the account switcher in the top navigation bar lets you change your active context.

How It Works

• All Accounts -- The default view aggregates data across all connected accounts, giving you an organization-wide perspective.
• Individual Account -- Select a specific account to see findings, costs, and resources scoped to that account only.

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When you switch accounts, all pages update to reflect the selected account's data. Filters, sort orders, and other page state reset to defaults on account switch.

Account Information

Each account in the switcher displays:

• Account name (as discovered from AWS Organizations)
• 12-digit AWS account ID
• Connection status (Connected, Pending, or Error)
• Last scan timestamp

AI Assistant

The AI Assistant is a conversational interface available from every page in Guardian Pro. Access it by clicking the chat icon in the bottom-right corner of the screen.

What You Can Ask

The AI Assistant understands your infrastructure context and can help with:

• "What are my most critical security issues?" -- Summarizes top-priority findings
• "Why is my cost higher this month?" -- Analyzes spending trends and anomalies
• "Am I compliant with CIS benchmarks?" -- Reports on your compliance posture
• "What happens if my RDS instance fails?" -- Runs a failure simulation
• "How do I fix this S3 bucket policy?" -- Provides step-by-step remediation guidance
• "Generate infrastructure for a Node.js API" -- Launches the Infrastructure Wizard

Conversations

The AI Assistant maintains conversation history, so you can ask follow-up questions and reference earlier context. You can:

• Start new conversations at any time
• Switch between previous conversations
• Delete conversations you no longer need

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The AI Assistant is context-aware. If you open it from the Action Centre while viewing a specific finding, the assistant already knows what you are looking at and can provide targeted guidance without you needing to describe the issue.

For more details, see the AI Assistant Overview.

Notifications

The notification bell in the top navigation bar shows alerts and updates that need your attention.

Notification Types

• Critical finding alerts -- Immediate notification when new critical or high-severity findings are detected
• Cost anomalies -- Alerts when unexpected spending spikes are detected
• Scan completions -- Confirmation that scheduled or manual scans have finished
• Remediation updates -- Status changes for in-progress remediation actions
• System notifications -- Platform updates and maintenance windows

Notification Preferences

You can configure notification preferences in Settings > Notifications:

• Enable or disable specific notification channels
• Set severity thresholds for alerts
• Configure webhook integrations (Slack, Microsoft Teams)
• Choose between instant alerts, daily digests, or weekly summaries

Page-by-Page Guide

Action Centre

The Action Centre is where you spend most of your time acting on findings. Key features:

• Lens selector -- Switch between different views: all findings, cost exposure, quick wins, by service, compliance gaps, or topology
• Smart grouping -- Identical findings across multiple resources are grouped together for efficient bulk remediation
• Inline remediation -- Fix issues directly from the finding card without navigating away
• Remediation activity monitor -- Track in-progress fixes in real time

For details, see Understanding Findings.

Cost Analysis

The Cost Analysis page provides deep visibility into your AWS spending:

• Service breakdown -- See which services drive the most cost
• Regional distribution -- Understand where your spend is concentrated geographically
• Trend charts -- Visualize spending over time with configurable date ranges
• Budgets -- Set spending thresholds and receive alerts when they are approached or exceeded
• Anomaly detection -- Automatically flag unusual spending patterns
• Recommendations -- Actionable suggestions for reducing costs (rightsizing, reserved instances, idle resources)

For details, see Cost Intelligence Overview.

Compliance Dashboard

The Compliance Dashboard tracks your posture against industry frameworks:

• Framework selector -- Choose which framework to view (CIS, SOC 2, GDPR, Well-Architected)
• Control list -- See the pass/fail status of every control in the selected framework
• Trend charts -- Track compliance scores over time
• Exception management -- Mark controls as not applicable with documented justifications
• Evidence attachment -- Upload evidence for controls that require manual verification
• Export -- Generate PDF, CSV, or JSON compliance reports for auditors

For details, see Compliance Overview.

Architecture

The Architecture page provides structural insights into your infrastructure:

• Architecture Map -- Interactive topology visualization showing resources, dependencies, and groupings
• Risk Radar -- Detected architectural risks (single points of failure, availability zone concentration, blast radius)
• Failure Simulator -- Select any resource and simulate what happens if it fails, showing the cascade impact
• Health Score -- Multi-factor infrastructure health assessment
• Growth Readiness -- Maturity assessment evaluating how prepared your architecture is to scale
• IaC Governance -- CloudFormation stack health and pending template updates

For details, see Architecture Advisor Overview.

Resources

The Resource Explorer provides a complete inventory of every AWS resource Guardian Pro has discovered:

• Search -- Find resources by name, ID, ARN, or type
• Filters -- Filter by service, region, account, or resource type
• Resource details -- View configuration, tags, relationships, and associated findings for any resource
• Export -- Download your resource inventory for offline analysis

For details, see Resource Explorer.

Settings

The Settings area contains administrative configuration:

Page	Purpose
Organization	View and manage your AWS Organization structure
Users	Invite team members, assign roles, manage permissions
Role Mappings	Map AWS IAM roles to Guardian Pro permission levels
Subscription	View your current tier, usage, and upgrade options
Frameworks	Subscribe to compliance frameworks
Scan Preferences	Configure scan schedules, region selection, and check exclusions
Notifications	Set up notification channels and preferences

Keyboard Shortcuts

Shortcut	Action
Esc	Close the AI Assistant panel or any open modal
/	Focus the search input (where available)

Next Steps

Now that you are familiar with the interface, here are some recommended next steps:

• Run your first scan if you have not already
• Review your findings in the Action Centre
• Configure compliance frameworks relevant to your organization
• Set up notifications to stay informed
• Explore the AI Assistant for interactive guidance