Monitor and manage Access Reviews

  • Last update on August 27th, 2025

Once an Access Review is in progress, the Access Reviews dashboard displays the current status. Tenant admins can manage ongoing reviews and export Access Review audit logs for record-keeping.

Interface and navigation

The dashboard lists Access Reviews within expandable sections. In collapsed view, the left side displays the review title and tags. The right side shows the status icon, progress bar, and timestamp. A circular arrow icon next to the timestamp indicates a periodic review.

The Access Review dashboard in collapsed view.

Actions

Expanding an Access Review section displays description, scheduling parameters, review targets, priority, and available actions:

Expanded Access Review task.

Progress status

The “Progress status action opens a report containing a table that lists review resources, assigned reviewers, and the current progress of each review. In the “Actions” column, you will find options that allow you to manage review tasks based on their status.

Review in progress

When a review is in progress, you have the option to release ownership of the review tasks. Releasing ownership removes the current reviewer’s assignment, making the task available for other assigned reviewers to take over and complete the review.

You can release the ownership of in-progress review tasks.

Review completed

You can  download the audit log for each review task that has been completed.

You can download the log of completed review tasks.

Send reminder (periodic reviews only)

The “Send reminder action sends reminders to reviewers with pending tasks. Reminders can be configured to send immediately, on a specific date, or a specified number of days before the due date. To schedule multiple reminders, select “Add another reminder”.

The “Send reminder” functionality is available for periodic reviews.
Reminders can be configured to send immediately, on a specific date, or a specified number of days before the due date.

Review history (periodic reviews only)

The “Review history action displays previous review cycles and their status (completed or not completed) with corresponding due dates. For completed reviews, use the download icon to obtain logs.

The “Review history” functionality is available for periodic reviews.
Review history displays review cycles and their status and allows you to download the logs of completed cycles.

Download log

The Download log” action exports the consolidated review log as a CSV file after completion. Logs are retained for one year.

Selecting “Download log” will start the download of the CSV file. This functionality is available for completed reviews.

Delete review

The Delete review” action removes the Access Review and its associated logs from the dashboard. Logs become unrecoverable after deletion.

Deleting a review will also delete associated logs. The action cannot be undone.