Severity

Also known as: policy severity

Severity is the impact level a policy assigns to its violations. A policy has one of five severities, from highest to lowest: Critical, High, Medium, Low and Information.

Severity is shown with every policy and violation, sorts the top issues on the Policies landing page, and is one of the filters in the Policy Template Library.

Severity tells you what to fix first. A Critical violation comes before a High one, a High one before a Low one, and Information is the lowest.

For example, the Policies landing page sorts the five policies with the most violations on each tile by severity, then by violation count.

Setting the severity

You set the severity on the Details screen when you create or edit a policy.

Severity applies to policy violations. Automations and actions are rated with a criticality level instead.