Criticality & alerts

Some applications matter more than others. Marking an application Critical tells lazyit it is especially sensitive — production infrastructure, finance systems, anything where you want a closer eye on who gets in. Criticality is a single flag you set on the application, and it changes two things: how the app is shown, and what happens when access is granted.

Marking an application critical

When you create or edit an application, turn on Critical. lazyit then:

• Shows a Critical badge on the application’s row and detail page.
• Lets you filter the Access list to critical only (or non-critical), so you can review your most sensitive systems on their own.
• Surfaces a count of active access on critical applications for at-a-glance review.

Critical is purely your judgment call — lazyit does not decide it for you, and changing it later is just an edit.

Alerts when critical access is granted

The point of the flag is visibility at the moment that matters. When someone is granted access to a critical application, lazyit raises a notification so administrators see it without having to go looking. The alert names the grantee and the application and is marked as a warning. It appears in the in-app notification bell.

A second, related alert fires whenever a grant is given at an admin level (an access level of admin or administrator) — even on a non-critical application — because admin-level access is worth knowing about wherever it lands.

These alerts are about awareness, not enforcement: they do not block the grant or require approval. The grant goes through immediately; the notification simply makes sure the right people notice. Each grant raises its own alert, so re-granting access later is flagged again.

The notification bell and how to read and clear alerts are covered under Notifications & Activity in this Help. Criticality alerts are one of the curated events that land there.

What criticality does not do

• It does not restrict who can be granted access — permissions decide that, not the flag.
• It does not auto-revoke or expire anything.
• It does not change how a grant behaves; a critical app’s grants work exactly like any other’s (see Access grants).

Think of Critical as a spotlight: it makes the sensitive applications easy to find and makes new access to them impossible to miss.