Data Asset Governance of DataWorks allows you to manage the health status of business assets and perform usage analysis on business assets, including tables and tasks. Data Asset Governance also allows you to use tags to manage business information. This helps you learn about the health status of your business assets and resolve issues related to business assets at the earliest opportunity.
The business asset management and asset health features are in the beta version. The features will be continuously improved and upgraded.
Required permissions
To govern all asset issues, you must have one of the following permissions:
An Alibaba Cloud account
A Resource Access Management (RAM) user who has the
AliyunDataWorksFullAccesspolicyA tenant administrator
A tenant-level data governance administrator
Other users can govern issues that occur only on their own business assets.
Go to the Asset Health page
Go to the Data Asset Governance page.
Log on to the DataWorks console. In the top navigation bar, select the desired region. In the left-side navigation pane, choose . On the page that appears, click Go to Data Asset Governance.
In the left-side navigation pane, choose .
NoteYou can view asset health status from different dimensions, such as Health Status of Business Assets and Team Asset Health.
Health Status of Business Assets: displays statistics of all assets that have a custom or system tag.
Team Asset Health: displays health analysis and governance leaderboards of team assets from the following dimensions: Global, Workspace, and Individual.
Tag-based asset analysis and governance procedure
Step 1: Create custom tags
You can use custom tags to distinguish the content, source, and applicable field of business assets based on your business requirements. Tags help you clarify the business meanings of data. For example, you can create a custom tag named "operations application: order analysis".
On the Asset Health page, click Manage Business Tags.
On the Define Tag page, view the custom tags and system tags on the Custom Tag and System Tag tabs. You can click Add Tag on the Custom Tag tab to create custom tags.
NoteFor information about system tags and how to create custom tags, see Manage tags.
Step 2: Add tags to business assets
Tags are used to categorize assets, which helps users easily locate data in specific fields and assists managers in summarizing and analyzing business assets.
The tag management feature of DataWorks allows you to add tags to multiple types of business assets. However, Data Asset Governance can display only scheduling tasks, MaxCompute tables, E-MapReduce (EMR) tables, and Hologres tables to which tags are added. For information about the asset types that are supported by the tag management feature, see Manage tags.
In the left-side navigation pane, choose and select the scope of assets that you want to manage.
All: all tables and scheduling tasks in the current region.
Managed by Me: tables and scheduling tasks on which the current logon account has governance permissions.
Owned by Me: tables and scheduling tasks whose owners are the current logon account.
Configure the following filter conditions to search for assets to which you want to add tags: Asset ID/Name, Tag, Owner, Asset Type, and Governance Status.
Add tags to business assets.
Add tags to a single business asset: Find the asset and click the
icon in the Tag column. In the message that appears, click Edit to go to the Modify Tag dialog box. Add tags to multiple business assets at a time: Select the business assets to which you want to add tags and click Configure Tag in the lower part of the Business Asset page to go to the Batch Modify Tags dialog box.
You can add tags to business assets, change the values of existing tags, or click the
icon to remove tags from business assets in the dialog box that appears. NoteYou can add a maximum of 20 tags to a business asset, and each tag key must be unique.
You cannot change the values of system tags or remove system tags from business assets. If a governance issue detected on a business asset with a system tag based on a specific governance item is handled and the system does not find the governance issue on the business asset the next day, the system automatically removes the system tag from the business asset.
Step 3: View the health status of business assets
After you add tags to business assets, you can choose in the left-side navigation pane to view the asset health status on the Asset Health page.
Health Status of Business Assets
Click the All Tags, Custom Tag, or System Tag tab and select tags from the Tag drop-down list to view asset tagging information.
NoteTo add tags to business assets, click View Asset Details in the upper-right corner of the Asset Health page to go to the Business Asset page.
The tagging information of existing business assets is updated in real time. Information about new business assets, including the tagging information, is updated in T+1 days.
In the Business Health Analysis section, configure parameters such as Tag and Statistical Metric to view the health analysis results of business assets. To govern the business assets at the same time, click View Details in the Actions column.
NoteThe following types of statistical metrics are supported: Computing, Development, and Storage. You can select a statistical metric type based on your business requirements.
Team Asset Health
You can view health analysis, issues to be governed, and governance leaderboards of team assets from the following dimensions: global, workspace, and individual.
Team Asset Health Analysis
Required permissions:
To view the health analysis of team assets from the Global dimension, you must have one of the following permissions:
An Alibaba Cloud account
A RAM user who has the
AliyunDataWorksfullaccesspolicyA tenant administrator
A tenant-level data governance administrator
To view the health analysis of team assets from the Workspace dimension, you must have one of the following permissions:
An Alibaba Cloud account
A RAM user who has the
AliyunDataWorksfullaccesspolicyA workspace administrator
A tenant administrator
A tenant-level data governance administrator
A workspace-level data governance administrator
Other users can view health analysis of team assets only from the Individual dimension.
Health Analysis from Team Governance Dimension
This section displays the number of issues to be governed and the health scores in different dimensions, including R&D, Storage, Computing, Quality, and Security. You can focus on the dimensions and workspaces that have lower health scores, and then analyze and manage specific issues.
Governance Rankings
This section displays governance leaderboards in different dimensions.
Rank by Account: displays the leaderboard of user accounts based on the effectiveness in governing issues and managing check events. You can filter governance items and check events by role.
Rank by Governance Unit: displays the leaderboard of governance units based on the effectiveness in governing issues and managing check events.
Rank by Workspace: displays the leaderboard of workspaces based on the effectiveness in governing issues and managing check events.
Step 4: Govern business assets
In the left-side navigation pane, choose Assets > Asset Health. On the Health Status of Business Assets tab, click View Asset Details in the upper-right corner. On the Business Asset page, perform the following operations based on your business requirements:
Govern a single business asset: Find the business asset that you want to govern and click Asset 360 in the Actions column to view the asset details, or choose in the Actions column to govern the business asset.
Govern multiple business assets at a time: Select the business assets that you want to govern and click Create Governance Plan or choose below the asset list.
If you want to create a governance plan, we recommend that you select Custom Governance Plan, which includes all selected assets to be governed. If you select other types of governance plans, the selected assets to be governed may not be included in the plan.
If you want to perform graceful undeployment on multiple business assets at a time, you must select business assets that belong to the same workspace and use the same data source. Otherwise, the graceful unemployment operation fails.
References
For information about tags, see Manage tags.
For more information about how to create a custom data governance plan, see Create a data governance plan.
For information about graceful undeployment, see Graceful undeployment.
For more information about asset 360, see Asset 360.