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# User access to Critical System should be valid

> Checks that everyone with Uptrace access is an active employee on the People page.

## What this check does

DSALTA compares every Uptrace organization member on the Access page against your People directory, matching each one by email address. A user with no matching person, or whose person is terminated or offboarding, is recorded with the reason. People with a pending invitation are not members yet and are not compared.

<Note>
  This check also runs on 144 other integrations — see [User access to Critical System should be valid](/tests/user-access-to-critical-system-should-be-valid) for the full list.
</Note>

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| - | - |
| **Severity** | Info |
| **Category** | `access` |
| **Data used** | Uptrace Access page users, People page records |

**Passes when:** Every user on the Uptrace Access page matches a person on the People page whose status is current and who is not in offboarding. An Access page with no synced Uptrace users passes.

## Why this matters

Access to the organization's Uptrace organization, which holds the company's traces, logs and metrics and the alerting rules built on them, must be limited to current, authorized employees. An account on the Uptrace Access page that belongs to nobody on the People page, or to someone who has already left, is access that no one is accountable for.

## How to fix

**Review Uptrace organization access**

1. Sign in to the [Uptrace console](https://app.uptrace.dev) as an organization owner or admin.
2. Open **Organization settings → Members**. Each row is one organization member; repeat for every organization the connected token can see.
3. Compare every member against your current employee roster, paying attention to any address on an external domain.
4. Remove anyone who is not a current employee.
5. In **DSALTA**, go to **People** and confirm every remaining Uptrace member maps to an active employee.

Once resolved, DSALTA records a **200** (compliant) result on this test's **Source Data** tab at the next scheduled run.

## Frequently asked questions

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  <Accordion title="How often does this check run?">
    Once a day, at 02:00 America/New\_York, while the integration is connected. A run is skipped entirely if the integration is not in a **connected** state, or if the test has been deactivated.

    To see a fix reflected sooner, open the test from **Compliance → Tests** and click **Run** in the **Run Test** row. You need Full Access to run a test on demand.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="What does the status actually tell me?">
    The **Status** column answers "did the check run?", not "did I pass". **Completed** means DSALTA reached your system and finished evaluating — a check that ran and *found a problem* is still Completed.

    To see what it found, open the test and read the result code on the **Source Data** tab. **200** means nothing to fix; **204** means the check did not apply to your environment; **207** means it ran and found a compliance gap you need to act on. See [Understanding test results](/guides/compliance/test-results).
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="The check shows Failed. Does that mean I am non-compliant?">
    Usually not. On an integration-powered check, **Failed** means DSALTA was *blocked* and could not evaluate it — result code **403** (a missing permission) or **428** (a setting DSALTA still needs from you). Code **500** means the run failed on DSALTA's side.

    A genuine compliance gap does not turn the list red — it runs to completion and shows **207**.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="What if this check does not apply to us?">
    Deactivate it: open the test from **Compliance → Tests**, then use the **⋮** menu at the top right of the panel and choose **Deactivate Test**. It applies immediately, with no confirmation step.

    Write your justification in the **Comments** tab **before** you deactivate. Once deactivated, every other tab is grayed out, so Comments is the only place an auditor can read why — see [Test detail](/guides/compliance/test-detail).
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Does DSALTA change my configuration?">
    No. DSALTA only reads. It never creates, modifies, or deletes resources, and every remediation step is performed by your team directly in the third-party product.
  </Accordion>
</AccordionGroup>