Six capabilities, one policy engine for real-time employee monitoring alerts. Configure once, adjust per team, and route with intent, from insider threat signals to attendance anomalies.
Compose policy-based alert rules from any signal E-Monitor captures: idle time, app category, URL pattern, USB events, file access, geographic mismatch, or logical combinations of the above.
Every rule carries low, medium, high, or critical severity. Severity drives channel routing, escalation timing, insider threat scoring, and the color of the badge on the dashboard.
Slack, Microsoft Teams, email, SMS, PagerDuty, and signed webhooks for SIEM ingest. Route one alert rule to multiple channels, or fall back to SMS if Slack is not acknowledged.
Attach an escalation policy to any alert rule. If the first responder does not acknowledge within N minutes, the alert escalates to the next tier, on-call rotation, or security lead.
One-click acknowledge closes the loop. Snooze suppresses repeats of the same root event for a chosen window and prevents alert fatigue. Both actions are recorded and searchable.
Every fired, snoozed, acknowledged, and escalated alert is stored in a searchable historical log with rule name, payload, delivery status, and responder. Feeds directly into activity logs.
Volume by hour, resolution SLA, and rule-level false-positive rates for your employee monitoring alerts, so you can tune what fires and how.
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Three stages, one policy engine. Sub-second local evaluation, encrypted transport, deduplicated delivery for every real-time employee monitoring alert.
Start from a template or build a custom rule: choose the trigger (event or anomaly), the threshold, the scope (users, teams, or workspace), and the severity. Rules are versioned and auditable.
The lightweight agent evaluates policy locally in milliseconds. Anomaly detection compares live behavior to a rolling 30-day baseline for that user. Verified events are encrypted and streamed to the alert pipeline.
The dispatcher routes each alert by severity and scope to Slack, email, SMS, or webhook. Acknowledgement stops escalation. Silence starts the next tier of the escalation policy.
Structured JSON, signed webhooks for SIEM ingest, and a human-readable summary. Click any fired alert to see its full record.
Same data, wildly different outcomes. Policy-based alert triggers move the response window from weeks to seconds.
| Dimension | Reactive investigation | Real-time employee monitoring alerts |
|---|---|---|
| Detection window | Days to weeks (audit or weekly review) | Under 5 seconds from event to inbox |
| Insider threat response cost | High: forensics, remediation, notification | Low: acknowledge and contain in seconds |
| Data required | Full log excavation after the incident | Policy rule matches the moment it happens |
| Anomaly coverage | Only what the reviewer thinks to check | Every alert rule, every user, every event |
| Best suited for | Historical audits and disputes | Live insider threat, security, and coverage gaps |
| SIEM integration | Manual export to spreadsheet | Slack, SIEM, PagerDuty webhooks out of the box |
Recommendation: Alerts and activity logs are complements. Alerts tell you something happened. Logs tell you the full story. Together they cover both the detection and the investigation halves of an incident, from first notice through post-incident reporting.
Alerts fire in under five seconds from event capture to delivery. The agent detects the event locally, evaluates policy rules on-device where possible, and dispatches through your configured channels (Slack, email, SMS, or webhook) within a single-digit-second window under normal network conditions.
Slack, Microsoft Teams, email, SMS, PagerDuty, and generic webhooks. Enterprise plans expose a REST API and outbound webhook signing so you can pipe alerts into Splunk, Datadog, Microsoft Sentinel, or a homegrown incident-response system. Each alert rule can route to multiple channels simultaneously.
Yes. Rules are scoped to users, teams, departments, or the entire workspace. A sales team might tolerate long browser sessions on LinkedIn while an engineering team flags them. Rules cascade: workspace defaults are inherited, then overridden at the team and user level.
Every alert rule can attach an escalation policy: notify the direct manager, wait N minutes for acknowledgement, then escalate to a department head or security team. Escalation policies support quiet hours, on-call rotations, and channel fallback (Slack first, SMS if not acknowledged in 10 minutes).
Threshold rules fire when a fixed number is crossed (idle > 45 minutes). Anomaly detection learns each user's baseline over a rolling 30-day window and fires when behavior deviates significantly, unusual login time, uncharacteristic app access, or a sudden spike in file transfers. It reduces false positives by adapting to the person rather than the population.
Yes. Every employee dashboard includes a Policies tab listing the alert rules that apply to them, the thresholds, and the routing destinations. Transparency is on by default and cannot be disabled by managers. This turns alerts from surveillance into a shared understanding of expectations.
Three mechanisms: severity levels route only high-severity events to on-call channels; snooze and acknowledge suppress repeated firings from the same root cause; and anomaly detection replaces noisy fixed thresholds with adaptive baselines. Alert-tuning reports surface the noisiest rules so administrators can tighten or retire them.
Yes. Enterprise plans stream signed webhooks to Splunk, Sumo Logic, Datadog, Microsoft Sentinel, PagerDuty, and Opsgenie. Payloads are JSON with stable event schemas, HMAC signatures, and delivery retries. Filter by user, severity, or rule to control ingestion cost downstream.
Every alert links back to the second-level activity record that triggered it.
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