Data health controls in Unified Catalog

Data health controls help your team analyze and track your health management. Track your journey to complete data governance by monitoring your governance health, and use the provided health controls to track your progress. Data health controls are specific measures, processes, and tools that you implement to monitor, maintain, and improve the quality, security, and overall health of your organization's data. These controls are part of a broader data governance framework and are essential for ensuring that data remains accurate, consistent, and usable across the organization.

Data health controls are essential components of a comprehensive data governance strategy. They help organizations maintain the integrity, security, and usability of their data assets. Some benefits include:

• Improved data quality: Ensures that data remains accurate, consistent, and reliable for decision-making.
• Enhanced security: Protects sensitive data from breaches, unauthorized access, and corruption.
• Regulatory compliance: Helps organizations adhere to legal and industry standards for data management.
• Operational efficiency: Reduces the time and resources spent on correcting data issues and ensures that data is readily available and usable.
• Risk mitigation: Prevents costly errors and data-related risks that can arise from poor data management.

Prerequisites

• You need data health reader permissions to view data estate health information.
• You need data health owner permissions to update or edit any health controls.

Limitations

• Currently, you can't create custom controls.

Access data health controls

To view controls, go to Unified Catalog > Health management > Controls. The Controls page shows your governance scores at the domain level, so you can understand your organization's progress at a glance.

Health controls are grouped into several categories that you can open to view their parts. Category scores are an aggregate of the controls underneath them. They show their current score and their target, so you can see areas for growth.

Select any category or individual health control for a detailed view.

Available health controls

The currently available health controls are:

Edit health controls

If you're a data health owner, you can edit your health controls to:

• Edit control details, such as owners, description, and governance domains.
• Activate or deactivate a control to manage scores.
• Configure thresholds to reflect your business goals.

Edit control details

1. On the Controls page, expand a control group name to view individual controls.
2. Hover over the name of the control you want to edit and select the Edit pencil button. You arrive at the Details tab of the Edit control page.
3. At Owner, add or remove owner names.
4. At Description, edit the control's description.
5. At Domains, select all governance domains you want to include in the score, and deselect any domains you don't want to include.
6. Select Save at the top right of the page to save your changes.

Activate or deactivate a control

You can deactivate any control so that new scores no longer roll up to a control group.

1. On the Controls page, expand a control group name to view individual controls.
2. Hover over the name of the control you want to edit and select the Edit pencil button. You arrive at the Details tab of the Edit control page.
3. Select the Active toggle to switch the control to the active or inactive state.
4. Select Save at the top right of the page to save your changes.

Configure control thresholds

Adjust your health control's target score status, or threshold, to reflect your business goals.

1. On the Controls page, expand a control group name to view individual controls.

2. Hover over the name of the control you want to edit and select the Edit pencil button.

3. On the Edit control page, select Thresholds.

4. Make the following adjustments:

   1. Set the overall target score to reflect your goals.
   2. Adjust existing threshold conditions to show any of these statuses:
      • Undefined
      • Healthy
      • Fair
      • Not healthy
      • Critical
   3. Add and remove conditions on existing rules to calculate status based on score.
   4. Add or remove thresholds to calculate your status based on target score.

   Tip

   To return to the saved calculation before your edits, select the Reset command at the top right of the page.

5. Select Save at the top right of the page to save your changes.

Configure control rules

Add rules to controls to measure their performance.

1. On the Controls page, expand a control group name to view individual controls.
2. Hover over the name of the control you want to edit and select the Edit pencil button.
3. On the Edit control page, select Rules.
4. Select Add rule. The Add rule flyout pane opens.
5. Search for a rule from the Data product rules list and select the rule to add it.
6. Select OK.
7. Add the needed parameter and accept it by selecting the check symbol.
8. Select Save changes.

Configure rules severity

1. On the Controls page, expand a control group name to view individual controls.
2. Hover over the name of the control you want to edit and select the Edit pencil button.
3. On the Edit control page, select Rules.
4. Select Configure severity.
5. Select a control name, and update the severity for the Finding name. Finding names are the rule names, and you see these finding names as action name if the defined rule fails for the applied severity.

Schedule control refresh

The schedule for the control refresh affects your health management actions and reports, as the controls provide the basis for many of these values. Consider how often you want to evaluate your overall data estate health, and schedule the controls refresh accordingly.

1. On the Controls page, select Schedule refresh.
2. At Start, enter a date, time, and time zone.
3. Set the frequency by selecting a number and choosing between Days, Weeks, or Months.
4. At Until, set an end date for the schedule, or leave blank if you want it to continue on the schedule indefinitely.
5. Save the configured schedule.

Data health controls pricing

Data health controls usage is billed based on the Data Governance Processing Unit (DGPU) pay-as-you-go meters. The Basic SKU is used for compute of data health controls. Find details on how pricing is computed for data health controls.