Data estate health in Microsoft Purview (Preview)

The phrase 'data estate' means all an organization's data, wherever it's stored. In Microsoft Purview, data estate health is a set of tools primarily built for chief data officers and data stewards to measure, investigate, and improve the health of their overall data estate.

There are four main tools that Microsoft Purview Data Estate Health provides for you to understand your data and develop your data governance strategies:

• Health controls
• Health actions
• Metadata quality
• Reports

You can find these tools by:

1. Open the Microsoft Purview governance portal and select the Data Catalog.
2. Select the Data estate health drop-down.

In this article, you can find a brief overview of each tool, its scope, and how you can use it to understand your data and develop your data governance strategies.

Health controls

Health controls allow data stewards chief data officer to evaluate health of their data estate from the lens of industry recognized standards and controls. Controls and rules are set at a global level, but execution is left to individual business domains, allowing you to both to set broad standards, but meet the needs of individual groups in your organization.

If you're a data health owner, you can edit controls or control groupings, and change the preset health ranges and thresholds to customize the way you measure the success of your data estate. You can also edit the schedule for the overall data refresh rate for all of the tools and reports in data estate health. For more information, see the health controls article.

Health actions

Health actions allow data governance practitioners to access truly actionable insights. All the anomalies noted by health controls are translated into actions, alerts with owners and recommendations that you can track and address from within Microsoft Purview.

As a data steward, you can look at actions and filter the list by finding type, finding subtype, and finding name. You can assign a task to anyone in your organization and that individual will see the action in their list. These actions are updated on the same schedule as the health controls, since actions are derived from the controls themselves.

For more information, see the health actions article.

Metadata quality

Metadata quality allows data health owners to see all the rules and logic that are used to define each control in their health controls. As a data health owner, you can add more rules from a list of out of the box rules provided at the scope of domain, data product or critical data element. You can even define severity of each control rule that will then reflect in health actions. For more information, see the metadata quality article.

Reports

For the data analysts and stewards in the federated data governance office, you can view out of the box reports for deeper analysis on your data estate. These reports give summaries of individual business concepts like business domains or data products, but also address your data governance goals, catalog adoption, and asset information like classification. For more information, see the data estate health reports article.

Note

Data governance health report coming soon!