Notification Center

Overview

The Notification Center is your in-app inbox for Guard alerts. Notifications arrive when:

• An Authorization Policy you are subscribed to detects a deviation.
• A Drift Policy triggers after detecting a meaningful change in your security posture.
• A Real-Time Change Notification (Change Monitoring Policy) fires based on a rule you or your team configured.

Notifications appear on the bell icon in the Guard header. Clicking “See Inbox” takes you to your personal inbox.

Your Inbox

Notifications are sorted by the trigger date (most recent first).

Each notification shows:

• The source feature (for example: Authorization Policies, Drift Policies, Change Monitoring)
• The Salesforce org involved, where applicable
• The time the notification was generated

Clicking a notification takes you to the relevant policy in Guard where you can investigate further.

Guard Admins can see all notifications across the platform, not just those that they are assigned to. Select All Notifications in the toggle under the inbox to move to this view.

Archive

Notifications that are no longer needed can be archived. Archiving removes them from your main inbox without deleting them, so you can still refer back to them if needed.

To archive a notification, use the archive action on the notification item.

Archived notifications are accessible from the Archive tab in the notification panel.

Retention

Notifications are kept for a total of 90 days before they are automatically removed.

Notification Groups

Notification Groups let you define named sets of Guard users who should receive notifications from a particular source or policy. Instead of adding recipients one by one each time you create a policy, you create a group once and add it to the recipients list for any notification across Guard.

Only Admins can create, edit or delete Notification Groups.

Create a notification group

1. Open the Notification Settings from the bell icon at the top of the page.
2. Click Create Notification Group.
3. Enter a name for the group.
4. Add the Guard users who should be members.
5. Save.

The group is now available as a recipient option when configuring any policy notification.

Edit and delete groups

Open an existing group to rename it, add or remove members, or delete it. Deleting a group does not delete the policies that reference it, but may result in these policies having no recipients.

Where Notifications Come From

The Notification Center currently receives in-app notifications from these Guard features:

Source	When a notification is sent
Authorization Policies	A policy detects a user or permission set deviation
Drift Policies	A daily evaluation finds drift above the configured threshold
Real-time Change Notifications (renamed to Change Monitoring Policies)	A monitored metadata change matches a configured rule

Each source controls who receives its notifications through the recipient settings in the policy rule. You can select individual Guard users or Notification Groups (or both) as recipients.

If you were previously receiving email notifications from these features, those emails will continue as before. In-app notifications are delivered in addition to email.

Role-Based Access

All Guard users can view notifications in their personal inbox and archive them.

Only Admins can create, edit and delete Notification Groups.