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title: "Watched Searches"
slug: "vip-monitor-searches"
updated: 2026-07-01T20:03:53Z
published: 2026-07-01T20:03:53Z
canonical: "help.nucleussec.com/vip-monitor-searches"
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> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://help.nucleussec.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Monitored Searches

Using a saved search, set alert boundaries on vulnerability intelligence changes with a monitored searched. VIP can notify in-app as well as externally when it detects changes to your search.

There are a couple of ways to start monitoring a saved search, so let's walk through both:

1. From the **My Searches** icon > click the **'eye'** icon in one of your saved searches

![](https://cdn.document360.io/3888970a-6501-459e-acc9-c47b71c6d64c/Images/Documentation/image-1703206094961.png)

This will pop up the **Add Monitored Item** modal. Here, you can select from a drop down what saved search you want to start monitoring. You can determine:

- The frequency in which the alert checks for changes in the search
- If you want to be alerted when vulnerabilities are removed from your search, not just when they enter the search
- The severity of alerts that will generate from the monitored search
- How you want to be alerted

![](https://cdn.document360.io/3888970a-6501-459e-acc9-c47b71c6d64c/Images/Documentation/image-1782936196346.png)

2. Head to **Monitor** **> Configure** from the VIP navbar.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/3888970a-6501-459e-acc9-c47b71c6d64c/Images/Documentation/image-1703200100539.png)

The **Monitored** **Searches** page allows you to view and edit your monitored searches, as well as add a new monitored search. Clicking the "**+ Add Monitored Search**" displays the same **Add Monitored Item** modal described above.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/3888970a-6501-459e-acc9-c47b71c6d64c/Images/Documentation/image-1782936217799.png)

Next StepWith a search ready to be monitored, check out how to triage the [Triggered Alerts](/v1/docs/alerting-on-a-search) page.