I understand why this would be helpful, but our general advice to customers not to use your tag manager to monitor your tag manager. We suggest a more objective 3rd party, regardless of the tag manager you use. I hope that helps.
Thanks. We hear this request often and are looking into it. Our #1 rule with DTM is to make sure we never cut corners, and with something like this, it's more complicated than you might think.
If you have publishing rights, you only need to hit the publish button in the top right. Make sure that your publishing queue doesn't include any changes that you DON'T want published before hand.