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Asset health and business assets

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Data asset governance lets you manage the health and usage of assets, such as tables and scheduling tasks, in DataWorks. You can use tags to manage business information, which helps you monitor asset health and resolve pending issues promptly.

Important

The asset health and business asset features are in beta and are continuously being improved.

Permissions

  • To govern all asset issues, you must have one of the following permissions:

    • An Alibaba Cloud account

    • A RAM user with the AliyunDataWorksFullAccess permission

    • A tenant administrator

    • A tenant-level data governance administrator

  • Other users can only govern issues for assets that they manage.

Go to asset health

  1. 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 Data Governance > Data Asset Governance. On the page that appears, click Go to Data Asset Governance.

  2. In the navigation pane on the left, click Assets > Asset Health.

    Note

    You can view asset health from different perspectives. The Health Status of Business Assets and Team Asset Health tabs provide different views:

    • The Health Status of Business Assets tab displays statistics for assets tagged with any custom or system tag.

    • The Team Asset Health tab displays health analysis and governance leaderboards for team assets from a Global, Workspace View, or Individual perspective.

Tag-based governance workflow

Step 1: Build a tag system

You can create custom tags to define the content, source, or application domain of data assets. For example, a tag like "business_application:order_analysis" provides the data with a clear business context.

  1. On the Asset Health page, click Manage Business Tags.

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  2. On the tag management page, view existing tags on the Custom Tag and System Tag tabs. To create a custom tag, click Add Tag on the Custom Tag tab.

    Note

    For more information about system tags and how to create custom tags, see Tag management.

Step 2: Tag business assets

Tagging assets helps users quickly find data in specific domains and allows administrators to summarize and analyze business assets.

Note

Although tag management supports various asset types, Data Asset Governance only collects statistics for and displays the following: scheduling tasks, MaxCompute tables, E-MapReduce (EMR) tables, Hologres tables, DLF tables, and StarRocks tables. For a complete list of assets that tag management supports, see Tag management.

  1. In the navigation pane on the left, click Assets > Business Asset, and then select a management scope.

    • All: All tables and scheduling tasks in the current region.

    • Managed by Me: Tables and scheduling tasks that you have permission to govern.

    • Owned by Me: Tables and scheduling tasks that you own.

  2. Filter the assets you want to tag by Asset ID/Name, Label, Owner, Asset Type, and Governance Status.

  3. Tag the filtered assets.

    • To tag a single asset: In the row of the target asset, click the image icon in the Tag column, and then click Edit to go to the Modify Tag page.

    • To tag assets in bulk: Select multiple assets, and then click Configure Tag at the bottom of the page to go to the Modify Tag page.

    On the Edit Tag page, you can add new tags, modify the values of existing tags, or click the image icon to unbind a tag.

    Note

    • Each asset can have up to 20 tags, and tag keys must be unique.

    • For a system tag, you cannot modify its value or unbind it. After the related governance issue is resolved and the system no longer detects the issue on the following day (T+1), the system automatically unbinds it.

Step 3: View asset health

After you tag business assets, you can view their health status on the Assets > Asset Health page.

Business asset health

  1. On the All Tags, Custom Tag, or System Tag tab, specify a Label key to view the current asset tagging status.

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    Note

    • Click Business Asset in the upper-right corner to open the Business Asset page and manage asset tags.

    • Tags on existing assets are updated in real time. For new assets, tag information is updated the next day (T+1).

  2. You can view the Business Health Analysis by filtering parameters such as Label and Statistical Metrics. Then, in the Actions column, click View Details to manage the tagged assets in bulk.

    Note

    Statistical metrics include Computing, Development, and Storage. You can select them as needed.

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Team asset health

You can view team asset health analysis, dimensional health breakdowns, and governance leaderboards from Global, Workspace, or Individual perspectives.

Team asset health analysis

Permissions required:

  • To view the team asset health analysis from a Global perspective, you must have one of the following permissions:

    • An Alibaba Cloud account

    • A RAM user with the AliyunDataWorksFullAccess permission

    • A tenant administrator

    • A tenant-level data governance administrator

  • To view the team asset health analysis from a Workspace View perspective, you must have one of the following permissions:

    • An Alibaba Cloud account

    • A RAM user with the AliyunDataWorksFullAccess permission

    • A workspace administrator

    • A tenant administrator

    • A tenant-level data governance administrator

    • A workspace-level data governance administrator

  • Other users can only view the team asset health analysis from an Individual perspective.

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Dimensional health analysis

This section shows the total number of pending governance issues and their associated health score deductions for dimensions such as R&D, Storage, Computing, Quality, and Security. Focus on the dimensions and workspaces with high score deductions to analyze and resolve specific issues.

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Governance leaderboard

You can select a perspective to view the governance leaderboard.

  • Rank by Account: Ranks users based on their performance in handling governance issues and check item events. You can filter the leaderboard by user role.

  • Rank by Governance Unit: Ranks governance units based on their performance in handling governance issues and check item events.

  • Rank by Workspace: Ranks workspaces based on their performance in handling governance issues and check item events.

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Step 4: Business asset governance

After you go to the Business Asset page by clicking View Asset Details in Asset Health, perform the following governance operations as needed.

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  • Single asset governance: Find the asset to govern, click Asset 360 in the Actions column to view asset details, and click Resolve > Graceful Shutdown to govern the asset.

  • Bulk asset governance: If there are many assets to govern, select them and click Create Governance Plan or More Governance Operations > Batch Graceful Undeployment at the bottom of the page.

    • If you select Create Governance Plan, select Custom Governance Plan. This plan will include all selected assets. If you select other governance plans, they might not cover all the selected assets.

    • If you select Batch Graceful Undeployment, ensure that all selected assets belong to the same data source project and the same workspace. Otherwise, you cannot use batch graceful undeployment.

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