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Policies Overview

The Policy Engine enables organizations to define, enforce, and monitor governance rules across all data products in a space.

Key Features​

Policy Types​

  • Documentation policies — ensure products have descriptions, owners, and metadata
  • Quality policies — enforce minimum quality check coverage
  • Classification policies — require sensitive data classification tagging
  • Custom policies — define expression-based rules for any product attribute

Policy Lifecycle​

  1. Create — define a policy with a name, type, rule expression, and severity
  2. Evaluate — manually or automatically run policies against all products
  3. Monitor — view compliance dashboard and per-product violation banners
  4. Archive — archive outdated policies without deleting history

Compliance Dashboard​

The compliance summary view shows:

  • Total policies (enabled / disabled / archived)
  • Overall compliance rate
  • Products with violations grouped by severity

Pre-Built Templates​

Use the templates library to quickly create policies based on common governance patterns (e.g., "All products must have an owner", "PII fields must be classified").

Automated Evaluation​

Policies can be re-evaluated in bulk with a single click, or scheduled to run periodically as part of your governance cadence.

Technical Reference​

  • See the Policies API Reference in the Developer Portal for endpoint details