> ## Documentation Index
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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Monitor recent events

> Track breaches, leaks, and vulnerabilities affecting your vendors, ranked by severity.

Approving a vendor is a point-in-time decision, but vendors change every day. **Recent Events** keeps watch on your tracked vendors and surfaces incidents — breaches, leaks, and vulnerabilities — so a fresh problem lands in front of you instead of going unnoticed.

<img src="https://mintcdn.com/vendex-labs/cF_gRQxu5ZE_JthB/images/incident-feed.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=cF_gRQxu5ZE_JthB&q=85&s=016b3d54471432a27d3bea0dc1ed4c5e" alt="Recent Events with triage queue, severity mix, and an incident detail panel" width="2588" height="1652" data-path="images/incident-feed.png" />

## What you see

<ResponseField name="Summary counts" type="top of page">
  Events in the current window, vendors affected, and how many need triage.
</ResponseField>

<ResponseField name="Vendors with incidents" type="list">
  Which of your vendors have activity in the current feed window. Click a vendor to filter to it.
</ResponseField>

<ResponseField name="Severity mix" type="Critical / High / Medium / Low">
  The distribution of incident severity across the current window.
</ResponseField>

<ResponseField name="Triage queue" type="sorted by severity">
  Active incidents under investigation, most severe first.
</ResponseField>

<ResponseField name="Event feed" type="grouped by time">
  The full stream of incidents. Click any row to open the incident detail — summary, affected product or service, status, and a link to the full report.
</ResponseField>

## Turning monitoring on

Incident monitoring is controlled per vendor by the **alerts** setting on your vendor list. When alerts are enabled, that vendor's incidents appear in Recent Events and can trigger email notifications; disabling alerts silences a vendor without removing it from your list.

## Email alerts and subscribers

Beyond the in-app feed, VendexLabs can email incident notifications to the right people. Alerts are granular: an **alert-criteria matrix** decides which event types (status changed, assessment updated, expiring soon, expired, security incident/breach) reach which recipients (compliance contact, sponsor, and the person who added the vendor), and you can add extra **subscribers** per list. Recipients can unsubscribe at any time. See [Settings & notifications](/account/settings-and-notifications) for the full alert system.

<Note>
  When an incident affects a vendor you've approved, treat it as a prompt to re-open the [assessment](/guides/run-an-assessment). Monitoring is what turns a one-time approval into continuous oversight.
</Note>