Alerts, cases & SARs
This is the investigation half of Compliance — where flagged activity becomes a decision. Events that score high raise alerts; your team groups an entity's alerts into a case, investigates it, and — where reportable — files a SAR or STR. All of it lives under Dashboard → Compliance, and every write is audited server-side.
Alerts
An alert is opened automatically when an event scores at or above your review threshold. Review alerts under Compliance → Alerts (alerts:read).
| Field | Notes |
|---|---|
| Decision | The event's decision — typically REVIEW or BLOCK. |
| Risk score | The score that triggered it (0–100). |
| Status | OPEN, RESOLVED, or DISMISSED. |
| Reasons | The rules that contributed, each with a score and a detail string (e.g. amount 48000 > 10000). |
The list shows each alert's entity, decision, risk score, status, and how many cases it belongs to.
Alerts appear here when monitoring flags an event for review or block.
Opening a case
To investigate, select alerts from a single entity and open a case (alerts:manage). The dialog lets you name the case (defaults to Investigation — N alert(s)) and add a summary of why it's being opened. All alerts must belong to the same entity — a case is scoped to one subject.
Cases
A case groups one entity's alerts and tracks the investigation to a conclusion. Manage cases under Compliance → Cases (cases:read to view, cases:manage to act).
| Attribute | Values |
|---|---|
| Status | OPEN → IN_REVIEW → CLOSED. |
| Disposition | Set when closed: CLEARED (false positive), CONFIRMED (fraud/ML), ESCALATED (needs senior review), INCONCLUSIVE. |
| Assignee | A team member, or unassigned. |
| Alerts | The grouped alerts; add more of the entity's alerts at any time. |
From a case you can assign it, add alerts, edit its title/summary, and dispose it — set the disposition and a closing summary, which moves it to CLOSED.
Open a case from the Alerts view to start an investigation.
SARs & STRs
When a case is reportable, draft a regulatory filing from it (cases:manage):
| Attribute | Values |
|---|---|
| Report type | SAR (Suspicious Activity Report) or STR (Suspicious Transaction Report). |
| Status | DRAFT → FILED, or CANCELLED. |
| Reference | Your external filing reference (e.g. the regulator's number), set when filing. |
The lifecycle:
- Draft — choose
SARorSTRand a reason. The report is generated server-side in goAML format. - Review & export — inspect the goAML payload on the SAR detail view and export it as XML for submission to your FIU/regulator.
- File — record the external reference and file path; the SAR moves to
FILED. - Cancel — a
DRAFTcan be cancelled if it's no longer needed.
Audit
Every case and SAR write — open, assign, add-alerts, dispose, draft, file, cancel — is recorded in your organization's audit log (Dashboard → Audit logs), with the actor and timestamp.
Related
- Event monitoring — how alerts get raised.
- Monitoring rules — the thresholds that decide
REVIEWvsBLOCK. - Compliance overview — the end-to-end lifecycle.