Health checks

Health checks scan your risk register for missing data and quality issues. They give you a quick picture of how complete and consistent your risks are, so you can fix gaps before they affect reporting or analysis.

What health checks do

Each health check tests every risk in the project against a specific data quality rule. The check reports how many risks pass and how many fail. The health checks page groups results into four categories.

Available checks

Basic info

Risks have an owner assigned flags risks that have no owner set.
Risks have a review date set flags risks without a next review date.

Causes and effects

Causes have been added to risks flags risks with no causes defined.
Effects have been added to risks flags risks with no effects defined.

Measures

Risk causes have measures assigned flags risks that have causes but no measures linked to them.
Risk effects have measures assigned flags risks that have effects but no measures linked to them.
Measures have an owner assigned flags risks where at least one measure lacks an owner.

Assessments

Risks have a current assessment flags risks without a current (as-is) assessment.
Risks have a target assessment flags risks without a target (to-be) assessment.
Target assessment is lower than the current assessment flags risks where the target score is equal to or higher than the current score, indicating no planned improvement.

Interpreting results

Each check card shows an icon and a count. A green checkmark means all risks pass. A red cross means one or more risks fail. The header bar shows the total number of risks checked and the number of checks currently failing.

Click the failing count on any check to jump directly to a filtered view of the affected risks. From there you can open each risk and fill in the missing data.

Filtering health checks

By default, health checks run against all risks in the project. You can apply a risk filter to focus on a specific subset, for example only risks in a certain phase or category.

Click Filter risks in the header bar, select your filter criteria, and save. The filter persists across visits until you change or clear it.

Muting checks

Some checks may not be relevant for every project. You can mute individual checks to exclude them from the failing count.

1
Open the check menu
Click the settings icon on the check card.
2
Select Mute this health check
The card greys out and a muted icon appears. Muted checks still run but no longer count as failing.
3
Unmute later
Open the same menu and select Unmute this health check to restore it.

Mute settings are stored per project. Muting a check in one project does not affect other projects.