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Overview
The Dashboard provides a high-level view of your organization’s compliance posture. It brings together readiness, alerts, trends, and tasks so you can quickly identify where attention is needed.
Prerequisite
Required Drata Roles: Admins, Information Security Leads, Workspace Managers, and DevOps Engineer.
Ensure that your role does not have read-only permissions enabled
Each Dashboard is specific to the workspace you have selected.
Readiness overview
View progress toward compliance for each framework. From the Readiness overview section, you can:
View the percentage of controls that are ready for each framework
View remaining controls
Track progress using a visual progress bar
Frameworks with 0% readiness do not appear on the Dashboard. Once progress is made, the framework card is displayed.
Select a framework card to be redirected to the Controls page, with the following filters applied:
In scope controls
The selected framework
On the Controls page, you can view which controls are not ready, address gaps, and improve your compliance readiness for that framework.
ℹ️ What does “in-scope controls” mean?
ℹ️ What does “in-scope controls” mean?
In-scope controls are the controls your organization has designated as applicable to a specific compliance framework and that Drata actively tracks for readiness, evidence, and audit progress.
A control is in scope when it:
Is marked In Scope in Drata
Is mapped to a specific compliance framework
Is actively tracked for readiness, evidence, and/or monitoring
Contributes to readiness percentages
Controls that are out of scope:
Do not affect readiness calculations
Are not required for audit purposes
Are intentionally excluded based on your organization’s scoping decisions
Notifications
Review high-priority items that require attention to gain or maintain compliance.
Notifications may include:
Auditor messages
Trust Center alerts
Other time-sensitive compliance items
Select a notification to navigate directly to the related area.
Test trends
The Test trends widget shows the number of failing tests and how that number has changed over the last seven days.
The percentage reflects the relative increase or decrease compared to the previous period. Large percentage changes can occur when the number of failing tests was previously low.
From this widget, you can:
Select a category to view failing tests in that area, ordered by most recent failure
Select a test to open its detail page on the Monitoring page.
Policies status
The Policies widget summarizes the current state of all policies in your organization and highlights where action may be needed. It displays:
The total number of policies
How policies are distributed across key lifecycle stages
What each status means:
Active: Policies that are currently in effect for compliance and do not require immediate action.
Needs approval: Policies that have been created or updated but are awaiting approval.
Ready to publish: Policies that have completed review and are ready to be published.
Renews soon: Policies approaching their renewal date and requiring review.
Past due: Policies that have exceeded their renewal date and require immediate attention.
Select the widget to be redirected to the Policies page.
Vendor risks
Assess your current vendor risk posture. The Vendor Risks widget displays a donut chart representing current vendor risk distribution.
What each status means:
High: Vendors with risk indicators that may require immediate review or remediation.
Moderate: Vendors with identified risk that should be monitored or reviewed.
Low: Vendors with minimal identified risk based on current assessments.
None: Vendors with no identified risk indicators based on available data and configuration.
Select the widget to be redirected to the Vendors page.
Connections
Monitor the health of your integrations. The Connections widget highlights misconfigurations that may affect monitoring or compliance.
Select the widget to be redirected to the Connections page.
Personnel
Track user compliance status across your organization. The Personnel widget shows:
The number of users who are currently non-compliant
The total number of users in the workspace
Select the widget to be redirected to the Personnel page and review individual user compliance details.
Tasks
Stay on top of compliance tasks and deadlines. The Dashboard includes:
Task Forecast: Shows trends for completed and incomplete tasks month over month.
Task List: Shows upcoming and overdue items such as policy renewals, evidence renewals, and vendor reminders.
Select a task to open the relevant item and take action.
Notes and troubleshooting
Workspace-specific: Dashboard data reflects only the currently selected workspace.
Missing frameworks: Frameworks appear on the Dashboard only after progress is made (greater than 0% readiness).
Data freshness: Widgets reflect the most recent monitoring and integration syncs.