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Drift Monitoring

Infrastructure changes after deployment. ComplyForm watches for compliance drift and alerts you before auditors do.

Detection modes

Section titled “Detection modes”

The default drift detection mode (Team+). ComplyForm runs a daily compliance scan, compares scores against the previous baseline, and alerts when the score drops below your threshold.

Configure scheduled drift

Section titled “Configure scheduled drift”
Terminal window
# Set up drift monitoring for a dashboard project
complyform drift configure \
  --project=my-gcp-project \
  --frameworks=soc2,hipaa \
  --schedule=daily \
  --threshold=5

The --threshold value is a percentage-point drop that triggers an alert. A threshold of 5 means: alert if the compliance score drops by 5 or more points since the last scan.

Example scheduled scan output

Section titled “Example scheduled scan output”
Drift Report — my-gcp-project
  Framework:      SOC 2 Type II
  Previous score: 94.2% (2026-03-22)
  Current score:  89.7% (2026-03-23)
  Delta:          -4.5 points
  Status:         WITHIN THRESHOLD (threshold: 5)


  New failures:
    FAIL  CC6.1.3  google_compute_instance.api_server
      Disk encryption disabled after manual console change

Alert configuration

Section titled “Alert configuration”

Configure email and webhook alerts for drift events.

Terminal window
complyform drift alerts \
  --email=platform-team@example.com \
  --webhook=https://hooks.slack.com/services/T00/B00/xxxx \
  --threshold=5

Alerts fire when the compliance score drops below the configured threshold. Each alert includes the affected resources, failed controls, and a link to the dashboard timeline.

Dashboard integration

Section titled “Dashboard integration”

The ComplyForm dashboard displays a drift timeline and score trend chart for each monitored project. The timeline shows:

  • Score snapshots over time (daily or event-driven)
  • Drift events with root-cause resource changes
  • Remediation actions taken and their impact on the score

Drift setup guides

Section titled “Drift setup guides”

Cloud-specific setup instructions for event-driven mode:

Next steps

Section titled “Next steps”