---
title: "Guardian Essentials documentation"
description: "Monitor your configuration for change, drift and compliance with Guardian Essentials."
product: "Guardian"
edition: "Essentials"
url: "https://docs.cloudhouse.com/guardian/essentials/"
---
# Guardian Essentials documentation

Guardian monitors the configuration of your CIs for change, drift and compliance. These pages describe Guardian Essentials, so every screen they mention matches what you see.

## What do you want to do?

- [**Get started** Sign in, add your first CIs and run a scan.](https://docs.cloudhouse.com/guardian/essentials/get-started/index.md)
- [**Review drift** See what changed on your CIs, and approve what was expected.](https://docs.cloudhouse.com/guardian/essentials/detected-drift/index.md)
- [**Reconcile with change requests** Match drift to approved ServiceNow change requests automatically.](https://docs.cloudhouse.com/guardian/essentials/change-reconciliation/index.md)
- [**Manage CIs** Add, group and import the CIs Guardian monitors.](https://docs.cloudhouse.com/guardian/essentials/cis/index.md)
- [**Schedule scans** Decide how often Guardian scans, and how it reaches your CIs.](https://docs.cloudhouse.com/guardian/essentials/scans/schedules/index.md)
- [**Check compliance** Policies, benchmarks and the reports they produce.](https://docs.cloudhouse.com/guardian/essentials/compliance/index.md)

## Also here

- [*Learn* **Guardian concepts** CIs, elements, properties, groups and environments, in a few minutes.](https://docs.cloudhouse.com/guardian/essentials/get-started/concepts/index.md)
- [*Connect* **Integrations** AWS and your ServiceNow CMDB.](https://docs.cloudhouse.com/guardian/essentials/integrations/index.md)
- [*Updates* **What's new** The latest changes to Guardian Essentials.](https://docs.cloudhouse.com/guardian/essentials/whats-new/index.md)

!!! note "Using Guardian Classic?"
    The Classic web application has its own documentation. Choose **Classic** beside the breadcrumbs at the top of any page to go there.