# Team health for Multi-party approval
Team health

To help you understand Multi-party approval, this topic describes statuses for Multi-party approval and the monthly report sent to Multi-party approval administrators.

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## Team health
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## Team and workflow status
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## Monthly team report
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## Team health


Team health refers to the overall operational readiness of your approval teams, including whether teams are functional and can respond to requested operations. Teams can become unhealthy if IAM Identity Center users become inactive, or an approver has not responded to a Multi-party approval session in the last 90 days.

## Team and workflow status


The health for an approval team is indicated by its *team status* (called `Status` in the APIs) and its *workflow status* (called `StatusCode` in the APIs).

**Team status:** Indicates if a team is functional. This provides the Multi-party approval admin with information about whether a team can respond to requested operations.

**Workflow status:** Provides information about the workflows that are affecting or can affect the team. For example, the state might display `ACTIVE` and the status might display `UPDATE_PENDING_APPROVAL`. This means that the team is functional, but that the Multi-party approval admin has requested team updates and the time window for approvers to respond to the request is still open.

### Team status


The following is a list of team statuses.


| Team status | Description | Functional state | 
| --- | --- | --- | 
| Active | Team can respond to requested operations. | Functional | 
| Pending | The time window for the initial set of approvers to accept the team invitations is still open, or AWS is still validating the configuration of the team. | Not Functional | 
| Inactive | Multi-party approval admin must update the team for it to become functional. | Not Functional | 

### Workflow status


The following is a list of workflow statuses.

[\[See the AWS documentation website for more details\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/mpa/latest/userguide/team-health.html)

## Monthly team report


As a Multi-party approval admin, the monthly team report is sent to you to help you maintain the health of your approval teams. You receive an email for the management account that you used to set up Multi-party approval.


| Section | Details | 
| --- | --- | 
| Approval team summary |  [\[See the AWS documentation website for more details\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/mpa/latest/userguide/team-health.html)  | 
| Operation summary |  [\[See the AWS documentation website for more details\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/mpa/latest/userguide/team-health.html)  | 

![\[AWSMulti-party approval teams report showing approval team and operation summaries.\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/mpa/latest/userguide/images/team-summary.png)


*Figure 3: Diagram depicting the Multi-party approval monthly team report.*