Findings Triage lets teams track review status and notes for individual findings in Prowler Cloud. Use it to record investigation state, remediation work, accepted risk, or false positive decisions without leaving the Findings workflow.
What Is Findings Triage?
Findings Triage adds a Triage status and team note workflow to individual finding rows. It is available from:
- Expanded rows in Finding Groups
- Standalone finding tables
- Finding and resource detail drawers, including related findings tables
Finding Groups rows do not show triage controls because a group row represents several findings. Expand a group to work with each affected resource.
Required Permissions
To update triage statuses and notes, the user role must have the Manage Scans permission. For more information, see Role-Based Access Control (RBAC).
Users without this permission can still see existing triage context when it is available, but cannot change statuses or save notes.
Triage Statuses
The status selector includes manual statuses. Prowler also sets automatic statuses after scans.
| Status | Type | Use It When |
|---|
| Open | Manual | A failed finding has not been reviewed yet. A failed finding with no saved triage state also appears as Open. |
| Under Review | Manual | A team is investigating the finding. |
| Remediating | Manual | Work is in progress to fix the finding. |
| Risk Accepted | Manual | The team accepts the risk and wants to mute the finding. |
| False Positive | Manual | The finding does not apply and should be muted. |
| Resolved | Automatic | A finding changed from FAIL to PASS in a later scan. A passed finding with no saved triage state also appears as Resolved. |
| Reopened | Automatic | A finding changed from PASS to FAIL in a later scan. |
Resolved and Reopened are not manual selector options.
These automatic states keep triage tied to the finding UID across scans, even when each scan creates a new finding snapshot.
Change a Triage Status
Open Findings
Go to Findings in Prowler Cloud.
Select an individual finding
Expand a Finding Group, open a resource findings table, or use a standalone finding row.
Open the triage selector
In the Triage column, click the current status.
Choose a status
Select Open, Under Review, Remediating, Risk Accepted, or False Positive.
Add or Edit a Triage Note
Triage notes are visible only to the team in the current organization. Each note supports up to 500 characters.
Open the finding actions menu
On an individual finding row, click the actions menu.
Open the note modal
Click Add Triage Note. If a note already exists, click Open note.
Set status and note text
Optionally change the status, then write the note.
Save changes
Click Save changes.
To remove an existing note, clear the note text and save the change.
Mutelist Behavior
Findings Triage uses Mutelist when a status means the finding should be muted:
- Risk Accepted creates a mute rule because the team accepts the finding as a known risk.
- False Positive creates a mute rule because the finding should not count as an active issue.
Use Simple Mutelist to review, disable, or delete mute rules created through this workflow. For pattern-based muting, use Advanced Mutelist.
Muting a finding does not fix the underlying configuration. Review the finding before using Risk Accepted or False Positive.
Troubleshooting
Triage controls do not appear
Make sure the row is an individual finding row. Finding Groups rows do not show triage controls. Expand a group to see affected resources and their triage controls.
Changes cannot be saved
Confirm that the user role has Manage Scans permission. Self-hosted Prowler App does not support Findings Triage writes.
Resolved or Reopened is missing from the selector
This is expected. Prowler sets Resolved and Reopened automatically from scan result changes.
Risk Accepted or False Positive muted a finding
This is expected. Those statuses create a mute rule through Mutelist. 
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