# Monitoring policies — Showing inactive rules

> When organization governance is active, local and kit-defined allow rules are not evaluated, so sbx policy ls hides them by default.

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## Knowledge

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When organization governance is active, local and kit-defined allow rules are not evaluated, so sbx policy ls hides them by default. To list them too — for example, to confirm which allow rules the organization policy overrides — pass --include-inactive. This adds a STATUS column

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```console
$ sbx policy ls --include-inactive
Governance: Managed by my-org | Sync: OK, last synced 08:41:06

POLICY                       SOURCE   APPLIES TO   SUMMARY                                                    STATUS
default filesystem           org      all          filesystem read: 2 allow; filesystem write: 7 allow, 2 deny   active
default network              org      all          network: 38 allow, 4 deny                                   active
default-fs-read-allow-all    local    all          filesystem read: 1 allow                                    inactive
default-fs-write-allow-all   local    all          filesystem write: 1 allow                                   inactive
```

Inactive policies show inactive in the STATUS column. They have no effect while organization governance is active. Local and kit-defined deny rules stay active and aren't hidden, because a deny still applies on top of the organization policy. See Precedence.

Use --type network or --type filesystem to show only policies of that type. Without a sandbox argument, sbx policy ls shows every policy across all sandboxes. Pass a sandbox name to filter to global policies and those scoped to that sandbox

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```console
$ sbx policy ls my-sandbox
```

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