Running an assessment

Launching a run starts the assessment. You can follow every step live, or leave it running and come back to the results.

Launch a run

Launching a run is an analyst action.

1. On the project’s Templates tab, select a discovery template.
2. In the Launch Scan step, choose the target.
3. Select Launch Run and confirm.

Starting a run takes a few seconds while the platform prepares it. On the cloud, a run against an unverified domain is blocked until you verify ownership.

You can also see all of a project’s runs on its Runs tab.

Follow the run live

When the run starts you land on the run page. It updates live as the assessment progresses.

• The header shows the template name, the current status, the target, and elapsed time.
• The agent grid shows each part of the assessment, such as Recon, Enumeration, Vulnerability, and Reporting, with its own status as it moves from pending to running to completed.
• The tabs give you the detail: Summary, Timeline, Findings, Artifacts, and Usage. The Timeline streams events as they happen, with a live indicator while the run is active.

You can leave the page and return at any time. The run keeps going.

Run status

A run is in one of these states:

• Pending: queued and preparing.
• Running: in progress.
• Completed: finished successfully.
• Failed: stopped on an error.
• Cancelled: stopped by a user.

Cancel a run

While a run is pending or running, select Cancel in the header to stop it. Once a run has finished, the same control becomes Delete.

Next

• Findings and reports: read the results.
• Confirming findings: prove which findings are exploitable.