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title: The Overview page
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# The Overview page

When you select **Security Analytics** from the top menu, the Overview page is displayed. The Overview page consists of five sections:
* Findings and alert count
* Recent alerts
* Recent findings
* Most frequent detection rules
* Detectors

Each section provides a summary description for each element of Security Analytics, along with controls that let you take action for each item.

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## Overview and getting started

The upper portion of the Overview page contains two control buttons for refreshing information and getting started with Security Analytics. You can select the **Refresh** button to refresh all of the information on the page. 

You can also select the **Getting started** link to expand the Get started with Security Analytics window, which includes a summary of the setup steps as well as control buttons that allow you to jump to any of the steps.

<img src="{{site.url}}{{site.baseurl}}/images/Security/overview.png" alt="The overview page with getting started quick launch window" width="85%">

* In step 1 of setup, select **Create detector** to define a detector. 
* In step 2, select **View findings** to go to the Findings page. For details about this page, see [Working with findings]({{site.url}}{{site.baseurl}}/security-analytics/usage/findings/).
* In step 3, select **View alerts** to go to the Security alerts page. For details about this page, see [Working with alerts]({{site.url}}{{site.baseurl}}/security-analytics/usage/alerts/).
* In step 4, select **Manage rules** to go to the Rules page. For more on rules, see [Working with rules]({{site.url}}{{site.baseurl}}/security-analytics/usage/rules/).

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## Findings and alert count

The Findings and alert count section provides a graph showing data on the latest findings. Use the **Group by** dropdown list to select either **All findings** or **Log type**.

<img src="{{site.url}}{{site.baseurl}}/images/Security/count.png" alt="A graph showing counts for findings and alerts." width="75%">

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## Recent alerts

The Recent alerts table displays recent alerts by time, trigger name, and alert severity. Select **View alerts** to go to the Alerts page.

<img src="{{site.url}}{{site.baseurl}}/images/Security/recent-alerts.png" alt="A table showing the most recent alerts." width="50%">

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## Recent findings

The Recent findings table displays recent findings by time, rule name, rule severity, and detector. Select **View all findings** to go to the Findings page.

<img src="{{site.url}}{{site.baseurl}}/images/Security/recent-findings.png" alt="A table showing the most recent findings." width="50%">

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## Most frequent detection rules

This section provides a graphical representation of detection rules that trigger findings most often and how they compare to others as a percentage of the whole. The rule names represented by the graph are listed to the right. You can hover over each color on the graph to see details about the detection rule it represents.

<img src="{{site.url}}{{site.baseurl}}/images/Security/rule_graph.png" alt="The detection rule graph on the Overview page" width="50%">

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## Detectors

The Detectors section displays a list of available detectors by detector name, status (active/inactive), and log type. Select **View all detectors** to go to the Detectors page. Select **Create detector** to go directly to the Define detector page.

<img src="{{site.url}}{{site.baseurl}}/images/Security/detector-overview.png" alt="A table showing available detectors." width="50%">