Site tools overview

This article provides an overview of the tools available within each site. These tools help you audit alerts, manage schedules for specific cameras, collaborate with the monitoring team, and review activity logs.

Each site includes a set of tools that give you insight into monitoring activity, camera scheduling, workflow behaviour, and user actions. These tools help you manage site operations and maintain visibility over how monitoring decisions are made.

The Site Tools section includes the following:

• Alerts

• Components

• Workflows

• Logs

Each tool is described below.

The Alerts tab shows every alert and event associated with the site.

You can view:

• Images captured during each event

• Who actioned the alert

• When it was actioned

• What disposition was chosen (for example: Intruder, No Threat, Staff)

• Notes or comments added by the monitoring team

This is one of the most valuable tools for auditing monitoring activity.

It allows you to review decisions and understand why certain actions were taken.

Component is used when individual device need a different schedule from the rest of the site.

This tool is ideal for situations such as:

• A camera located far away from the main site area

• A camera monitoring an isolated zone

• Cameras needing special operating hours

With Components, you can:

• Apply a 24/7 schedule to one camera

• Set a unique arming/disarming schedule that differs from the main site schedule

While most cameras follow the general site arming schedule, Components allows one or more cameras to operate independently.

Components allow you to group cameras, speakers, and relays into meaningful areas of your site, regardless of the hardware they come from.

Components help you:

• Organise device feeds into logical sections (for example, Front Entrance, Warehouse, Level 3)

• Separate remote or isolated devices into their own area

• Simplify monitoring by breaking a large site into manageable parts

This gives you flexibility to structure your site in a way that matches the physical layout and improves how alerts are grouped and reviewed.

The Logs tab shows activity related to arming, disarming, and general control of the site.

You can view:

• Who armed or disarmed the site

• The time these actions occurred

• System-level activity

• Changes in site configuration

Logs provide transparency and help you understand who is managing your site at any given time.

With Alerts, Components, Workflows, and Logs, you have a complete set of tools to manage and review activity on your site.

These tools support better communication with the monitoring team and give you full oversight of site operations.