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Snapshots

What Is This Page?

Snapshots lets you capture a point-in-time copy of selected Intune/Entra resource configurations, independently of creating a monitor. A snapshot becomes available to use as a baseline the next time you create a monitor.

A snapshot job is the run that produces the snapshot — it has its own status and timestamps. A snapshot is the resulting data: the list of resources captured. One successful job produces one snapshot.

How to Use It

  1. Click New Snapshot to open the creation dialog.

  2. Give it a name and optional description, and choose which resource types to capture.

  3. Submit — the snapshot job runs asynchronously and appears in the jobs table with a status of Not Started or In Progress.

  4. Click Refresh at any time to update the table, or click the eye icon on a job to see its full details.

Once a job succeeds, you can:

  • Click the monitor icon on that row to jump straight into Add Monitor using this snapshot as the baseline.

  • Click the trash icon to delete the job and its snapshot data. A confirmation dialog warns this cannot be undone.

What You Will See

Three stat tiles: Succeeded, In Progress, and Failed.

The Snapshot Jobs table lists each job with:

Column
What It Shows

Name / Description

What you named the snapshot

Status

Not Started, In Progress, Succeeded, Partial, or Failed, with an icon

Resources

Number of resource types requested

Created

When the job was submitted

Completed

When the job finished, if it has

Actions

View, create monitor from this snapshot, and delete

The details dialog shows the job's status, snapshot ID, timestamps, the requested resource types, and — once complete — the actual captured resources (name and type), with a prompt to create a monitor from it.

If you have no snapshots yet, the table is replaced with a call-to-action to create your first one.

Common Questions

Why would I take a snapshot without immediately creating a monitor? To capture a baseline now (for example, right after a change window) and decide later whether to turn it into an ongoing monitor.

What happens if I delete a snapshot job that a monitor is using as its baseline? Deleting a snapshot job only removes the job and its standalone snapshot record — it does not affect a monitor that was already created from it, since the monitor stores its own baseline at creation time.

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