When a SPP is started, the state in the Connections context menu goes to "STARTED" as shown in this screen capture

  If you perform an sp.testsp2.stats() the status shows RUNNING

AtlasStreamProcessing> sp.testsp2.stats()

{

  ok: 1,

  ns: '65565a77f20bd44bbc3f30ca.65094f059e0776665611598b.testsp2',

  stats: {

    name: 'testsp2',

    processorId: '659f1510737c055e3d892511',

    status: 'running',

Refreshing  the CONNECTIONS context menu does not change the value