diff --git a/backend/app/routers/dashboard.py b/backend/app/routers/dashboard.py
index b5a6994..52355fb 100644
--- a/backend/app/routers/dashboard.py
+++ b/backend/app/routers/dashboard.py
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ async def home_summary(
 @router.get("/monitor/status", response_model=DashboardMonitorStatus)
 async def monitor_status(_: User = Depends(get_current_user)):
     row = await dashboard_service.get_monitor_status()
-    return DashboardMonitorStatus.model_validate(row)
+    return DashboardMonitorStatus.model_validate(row, from_attributes=True)
 
 
 @router.post("/monitor/run", response_model=DashboardRunResponse)
diff --git a/backend/app/schemas/dashboard.py b/backend/app/schemas/dashboard.py
index bc01256..1f1d556 100644
--- a/backend/app/schemas/dashboard.py
+++ b/backend/app/schemas/dashboard.py
@@ -111,6 +111,8 @@ class DashboardMonitorStatus(BaseModel):
     last_error: Optional[str] = None
     last_counts: Optional[dict[str, Any]] = None
 
+    model_config = {"from_attributes": True}
+
 
 class DashboardObjectCheckSummary(BaseModel):
     status_counts: dict[str, int]