Govern in OneLake Catalog for Fabric admins (Preview)
OneLake catalog is the central hub for discovering and managing Fabric content. Whether you’re a business analyst searching for the right datasets, a data engineer managing structured and unstructured data, or a BI consumer looking for curated insights, the OneLake catalog seamlessly connects you to the right content.
Extending OneLake catalog governance view for Fabric admins
In today’s data-driven world, effective data governance is crucial to ensure the integrity, security, and usability of data. The latest advancement in this area—OneLake catalog is available for Fabric admins in preview. With this new experience we’re empowering Fabric admins with the tools and insights they need to govern and secure their data estates within Fabric, all in one place.
Personalized insights and actions for admins
To improve their data governance postures, Fabric admins need actionable insights and access to relevant tools. We provide these insights directly within the OneLake catalog. This ensures that Fabric admins have the information they need to make informed decisions about data governance in the place where they work.
Insights at a glance
On reaching the ‘Govern’ tab in OneLake catalog, Fabric admins can view a consolidated set of indicators of their governance status, including the number of items, workspaces, capacities and domains in their data estate, items by type, workspaces spread by capacity and more.
Recommended actions
To help Fabric admins improve their governance, we have outlined specific actions they can take. These include recommendations like setting policies or increasing sensitivity label coverage, setting Domains or Tags, and enabling endorsement to certify items and increase discoverability. By taking these actions, Fabric admins can ensure their data is well-managed and secured. Clicking each action provides an overview of the recommendation alongside step-by-step instructions for how to remediate the issues.
In-depth additional insights
When selecting ‘View more’ above the insight tiles on the Govern tab, Fabric admins access additional insights across three tabs: Manage your data estate, Protect, secure & comply, and discover, trust, and reuse. Each tab includes subpages with further insight categories.
This comprehensive report may be filtered by areas of interest including Capacity, Domains, and additional categories. Each visualization incorporates a drill-through function, allowing administrators to retrieve more granular information. Copilot can be activated at any time to provide further insights and facilitate interactive data exploration.
In ‘Manage your data estate’, you’ll find a broad set of overview insights about item inventory, capacity & domain assignment information, together with features usage.
In ‘Protect secure & comply’, you’ll find valuable insights about items sensitivity including overall sensitivity label coverage, activity around unlabeled items, and more. Additionally, you can understand protection state including insights on data loss prevention policies and policies violations.
In ‘Discover, trust and reuse’, you’ll find insights about freshness of the data, curation state like endorsement status, description, tags, and content sharing information.
Tools and educational materials
The ‘Top solutions’ section of the OneLake catalog governance experience provides quick access to the set of governance tools Fabric Admins can use within Fabric. In addition, access to relevant documentation and engagement points within the Fabric community help ensure they have the knowledge and resources to manage their organizational data effectively.
Further governance enhancements to come
We’ll continue developing the governance experience in OneLake catalog by expanding the range of insights available to you as well as integrating actions more deeply within the experience.
Stay tuned for more updates and enhancements as we continue to improve OneLake catalog. We’d love your feedback on the catalog, and in particular on how it can help your organization achieve its data governance goals. Please contact us with your feedback, requests, and suggestions at OneLake catalog – Feedback
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