8 alert types monitored live overdue tasks, deadline risk, workflow bottleneck, inactive project, over budget, unassigned tasks, blocked tasks, and velocity decline each with severity levels that tell you exactly how urgently to act.
TARO monitors 8 distinct risk signals continuously across your entire workspace classifying severity, naming the exact cause, and tracking every alert until it resolves.
Monitor
TARO runs eight independent detection engines simultaneously each watching for a different class of risk that causes sprints to fail, projects to slip, or teams to burn out. Every engine runs continuously, not on a nightly schedule. The moment a signal crosses its threshold, an alert fires and appears in the dashboard. No batch processing. No 24-hour lag. No risk that was visible all week but nobody saw.
Classify
TARO classifies every alert into one of four severity levels Critical, High, Monitor, and Info based on how close the risk is to the deadline, how many tasks or people are affected, and how long it has persisted without resolution. The severity level tells teams exactly how urgently to act, preventing alert fatigue where every notification feels equally important and none of them get treated with appropriate urgency.
Resolve
Every alert in TARO follows a four-stage resolution loop. Detection fires the alert. The dashboard surfaces it with a recommended action. The action is taken a task unblocked, a reviewer added, a scope item deferred. TARO monitors the underlying signal and only closes the alert when the data confirms the risk has cleared. Acknowledging is not resolving. The alert stays visible until the pipeline stage WIP drops, the blocked task moves, or the velocity recovers.
Escalate
An alert that sits unacted on doesn't stay at its initial severity it escalates. A Monitor-level alert that isn't addressed within its observation window promotes to High. A High that persists near the deadline promotes to Critical. Escalation fires a new notification to the relevant lead, marking it as escalated so the team knows the urgency has increased. If a lead dismisses an alert with a reason, it closes but is logged permanently in alert history for retrospective analysis.
The incident that derailed the sprint was almost always visible three days earlier in a metric nobody was watching. TARO watches all of them, all the time.
Overdue tasks, deadline risk, workflow bottleneck, inactive project, over budget, unassigned tasks, blocked tasks, and velocity decline. Every class of risk that teams encounter in real delivery not just the obvious ones that everyone already knows to watch.
When everything is urgent, nothing is. Four severity levels Critical, High, Monitor, Info give teams a triage framework. Leads act on Critical immediately. They check High before end of day. They watch Monitor at standup. They review Info in retrospectives. Every alert gets the right response.
An unaddressed Monitor doesn't quietly expire. It escalates to High. An unaddressed High near a deadline escalates to Critical. TARO's escalation chain means risks that are noticed but deprioritised continue to demand attention until they are genuinely resolved.
TARO doesn't let teams click resolved and move on while the underlying risk persists. An alert about a WIP overflow closes when the WIP count drops. An alert about a blocked task closes when the task status changes. Resolution is confirmed by the signal, not the statement.
A velocity drop that's alarming for one team is routine variance for another. Every threshold inactivity days, budget warning percentage, velocity drop percent, WIP limits, escalation windows is configurable so TARO alerts on what's actually risky for how your team operates.
Every alert fired, dismissed, or resolved is logged permanently with timestamp, severity, and resolution path. Retrospectives can review which alert types fire most frequently, which take longest to resolve, and whether the same risks appear sprint over sprint turning individual incidents into systemic improvements.
Overdue tasks, deadline risk, workflow bottleneck, inactive project, over budget, unassigned tasks, blocked tasks, and velocity decline. Every class of risk that teams encounter in real delivery not just the obvious ones that everyone already knows to watch.
When everything is urgent, nothing is. Four severity levels Critical, High, Monitor, Info give teams a triage framework. Leads act on Critical immediately. They check High before end of day. They watch Monitor at standup. They review Info in retrospectives. Every alert gets the right response.
An unaddressed Monitor doesn't quietly expire. It escalates to High. An unaddressed High near a deadline escalates to Critical. TARO's escalation chain means risks that are noticed but deprioritised continue to demand attention until they are genuinely resolved.
TARO doesn't let teams click resolved and move on while the underlying risk persists. An alert about a WIP overflow closes when the WIP count drops. An alert about a blocked task closes when the task status changes. Resolution is confirmed by the signal, not the statement.
A velocity drop that's alarming for one team is routine variance for another. Every threshold inactivity days, budget warning percentage, velocity drop percent, WIP limits, escalation windows is configurable so TARO alerts on what's actually risky for how your team operates.
Every alert fired, dismissed, or resolved is logged permanently with timestamp, severity, and resolution path. Retrospectives can review which alert types fire most frequently, which take longest to resolve, and whether the same risks appear sprint over sprint turning individual incidents into systemic improvements.
Connect your project. TARO surfaces the first alert in under a minute.
Engineering leads, project managers, scrum masters, and org admins all use the Risk Alerts Dashboard for the same core reason the incident that derails a sprint was almost always visible days earlier in data nobody was watching. TARO watches all of it, classifies what it finds, and escalates what isn't being addressed. The alert is the intervention that prevents the retrospective.
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Alert types monitored
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Alerts close on data
Risks that expire silently
Engineering leads open the Risk Alerts Dashboard before standup. The blocked task alert shows which task, which person caused the block, and how long it's been blocked. The velocity decline alert shows the exact percentage drop and which mid-sprint additions caused it. The WIP overflow alert names the stage and the person who's the bottleneck. The standup confirms what TARO already surfaced it doesn't discover it.
When the Risk Alerts Dashboard fires, TARO's intelligence features give you the exact action to take turning a warning into a resolved incident before it becomes a missed deadline.
Diagnoses the stage overload or SPOF behind a Workflow Bottleneck alert with a named prescription for who to add as co-reviewer, which tasks to edistribute, and the expected flow recovery.
When an Unassigned Tasks alert fires, Workload Distribution shows who has capacity and suggests exact assignments so unowned work gets an owner in one click, not three Slack messages.
The engine behind the Deadline Risk alert predicting actual finish date from velocity, blockers, and sprint history. When the alert fires, Completion Analysis shows exactly what's causing the slip.
The Risk Alerts widget on the main dashboard surfaces the same live feed with severity-sorted alerts giving every role a persistent view of the current risk picture without opening a separate panel.
Diagnoses the stage overload or SPOF behind a Workflow Bottleneck alert with a named prescription for who to add as co-reviewer, which tasks to edistribute, and the expected flow recovery.
When an Unassigned Tasks alert fires, Workload Distribution shows who has capacity and suggests exact assignments so unowned work gets an owner in one click, not three Slack messages.
The engine behind the Deadline Risk alert predicting actual finish date from velocity, blockers, and sprint history. When the alert fires, Completion Analysis shows exactly what's causing the slip.
The Risk Alerts widget on the main dashboard surfaces the same live feed with severity-sorted alerts giving every role a persistent view of the current risk picture without opening a separate panel.
Common questions from engineering leads, PMs, and org admins evaluating TARO's risk monitoring system.
The Over Budget alert monitors two thresholds. A Monitor-severity alert fires when a project's logged spend or time-tracked hours reaches 80% of its configured budget giving the lead advance warning before the limit is hit. A Critical-severity alert fires when the budget is fully consumed or exceeded. Budget tracking uses the project's configured monetary budget field (set in Project Management settings) and aggregates logged time entries converted to cost using the workspace's hourly rate configuration. If no hourly rate is configured, budget tracking uses the raw monetary spend field only. The alert names the project, the percentage consumed, the amount over, and the current spend rate so the lead can see not just that the budget is at risk but how quickly it's being consumed.
Eight alert types. Four severity levels. Continuous monitoring so the incident never surprises you.