Manage and increase quotas for resources with Microsoft Purview

This article highlights the limits that currently exist in the Microsoft Purview service. These limits are also known as quotas.

Microsoft Purview limits

Resource	Default Limit	Maximum Limit
Microsoft Purview accounts per region, per tenant (all subscriptions combined)	3	Contact Support
Data Map throughput^ There's no default limit on the data map metadata storage	10 capacity units 250 operations per second	100 capacity units 2,500 operations per second
vCores available for scanning, per account*	160	160
Concurrent scans per Purview account. The limit is based on the type of data sources scanned*	5	10
Maximum time that a scan can run for	7 days	7 days
Size of assets per account	100M physical assets	Contact Support
Maximum size of an asset in a catalog	2 MB	2 MB
Maximum length of an asset name and classification name	4 KB	4 KB
Maximum length of asset property name and value	32 KB	32 KB
Maximum length of classification attribute name and value	32 KB	32 KB
Maximum number of glossary terms, per account	100K	100K
Maximum number of self-service policies, per account	3K	3K

* Self-hosted integration runtime scenarios aren't included in the limits defined in the above table.

^ Increasing the data map throughput limit also increases the minimum number of capacity units with no usage. See Data Map throughput for more info.

Request quota increase

Use the following steps to create a new support request from the Azure portal to increase quota for Microsoft Purview. You can create a quota request for Microsoft Purview accounts in a subscription, accounts in a tenant and the data map throughput of a specific account.

1. On the Azure portal menu, select Help + support.

   

2. In Help + support, select New support request.

   

3. For Issue type, select Service and subscription limits (quotas).

4. For Subscription, select the subscription whose quota you want to increase.

5. For Quota type, select Microsoft Purview. Then select Next.

   

6. In the Details window, select Enter details to enter additional information.

7. Choose your Quota type, scope (either location or account) and what you wish the new limit to be

   

8. Enter the rest of the required support information. Review and create the support request

Next steps

Concept: Elastic Data Map in Microsoft Purview

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