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    DataWorks:Handle governance issues

    Last Updated:Jul 10, 2026

    After you configure governance items, Data Asset Governance detects issues in your tenant. On the Overview > To-Do List page, view pending issue counts, affected assets, and task or table details to identify and resolve problems.

    Prerequisites

    Governance items are configured. For more information, see Configure governance items.

    Background information

    • Governance issues are detected by the governance items configured for the current account.

    • The health score is calculated from governance items and the built-in health assessment model, and a rating grade is assigned accordingly. For more information about health scores, see Quantitative assessment: health scores.

    Data Asset Governance provides Global, Workspace View, and Individual views for reviewing governance issues in a tenant. More issues lead to a lower health score and poorer rating. Investigate and resolve issues promptly to meet your governance goals.

    Permissions

    • To view governance issues in the Global view, you must have one of the following permissions:

      • You have an Alibaba Cloud account.

      • You have created a Resource Access Management (RAM) user and the AliyunDataWorksfullAccess policy is attached to the RAM user.

      • You are a tenant administrator.

      • You are a tenant-level data governance administrator.

    • To view governance issues in the Workspace View view, you must have one of the following permissions:

      • You have an Alibaba Cloud account.

      • You have created a RAM user and the AliyunDataWorksfullAccess policy is attached to the RAM user.

      • You are a workspace administrator.

      • You are a tenant administrator.

      • You are a tenant-level data governance administrator.

      • You are a workspace-level data governance administrator.

    • Regular users can view governance issues only in the Individual view.

    Usage notes

    Data Asset Governance supports governance issue processing for MaxCompute, E-MapReduce, and Hologres. To check which data source types each governance item applies to, see the Range column on the Knowledge page.

    Note

    • To use a Hologres compute resource in Data Asset Governance, you must first collect its metadata with Data Map. For more information, see Metadata collection.

    • Data Asset Governance supports Hologres compute resources only in the China (Beijing), China (Shanghai), China (Hangzhou), and China (Shenzhen) regions.

    View and handle governance issues

    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 left-side navigation pane, click Workbench to go to the Workbench page. At the top of the page, switch to the Global, Individual, or Workspace View view. In the To-Do List section, you can view the number of Number of Governance Issues and Assets to Be Governed for the current account or the specified workspace.

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    3. Click See more to navigate to the To-Do List page.

      Note

      Alternatively, you can click Overview > To-Do List in the left-side navigation pane to navigate directly to the To-Do List page.

    4. View and handle governance issues.

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      Area

      Description

      1

      Select a perspective to view governance issues.

      • Global: Displays governance issues for all DataWorks workspaces in the tenant.

      • Workspace View: Displays governance issues for workspaces where the current account is a workspace administrator.image

      • Individual: Displays governance issues owned by the current account.

      Note

      For more information about permissions that are required for selecting different perspectives, see Permissions.

      2

      Review issue rankings and counts across dimensions: R&D, Storage, Computing, Quality, and Security. Selecting a Governance Dimension displays the optimizable objects for that dimension in the Optimization Object area (③).

      3

      Displays optimizable objects for the selected Governance Dimension, such as Tasks, Table, and DataService Studio APIs, along with rankings and counts. Selecting an Optimization Object displays the corresponding governance items in the Governance Item area (④).

      4

      Displays specific Governance Item to optimize for the selected Optimization Object, with rankings and counts for each. View and resolve them in the issue list (⑤).

      5

      Filter by Workspace, Data Source Classification, Table Owner, Status, or Label, or search by Asset Name or ID to find items for optimization.

      You can also perform the following governance operations as needed:

      1. View a table in a panoramic view.

        In the Actions column, click Table 360 to see a comprehensive overview of the table, including basic information, governance issues, and task execution history.

      2. Handle governance issues.

        In the Actions column for an issue, select one of the following actions based on the issue details and recommended solution:

        • Click Add to Whitelist in the Actions column: You can whitelist issues that do not require action. Once an issue is whitelisted, it will not be detected again during the whitelist's validity period. You can also select multiple issues to add them to the whitelist in bulk. After adding issues to a whitelist, you can manage them centrally on the whitelist management page. For more information, see Add an invalid issue to a whitelist.

        • Click Create Plan in the Actions column: You can schedule the undeployment of tables or tasks that are no longer in use. For more information, see Graceful undeployment.

        • Click Change Lifecycle in the Actions column: You can change the node's lifecycle. Its task will then run on the configured schedule.

      Note

      • You can change the lifecycle of only governance issues in the Storage dimension.

      • After you change the lifecycle of a node, the system deletes the data that does not fall within the specified lifecycle every day. For more information, see Lifecycle.

      • If a non-partitioned table does not fall within the specified lifecycle, the entire table is deleted.

      • The lifecycle of a table starts from the time when the data in the table is last modified.

      • Handling table-related governance issues may require modifying table lifecycles. Available operations vary by governance dimension. Follow the instructions in the DataWorks console.

      • The tags that are added to governance issues shown in this area are offline snapshots and cannot be modified. After you modify or add a new tag on the Tag Management page, snapshots are not updated in real time. Tag data takes effect on the next day. For more information, see Tag Management.

      • Data Asset Governance supports governance issue processing for MaxCompute, E-MapReduce, and Hologres. To check which data source types each governance item applies to, see the Range column on the Knowledge page.

    What to do next

    After resolving governance issues, navigate to the Overview > Workbench page to view the results.