Data Discovery Store overview

Get visibility into sensitive data on your instance and work towards implementing security measures to prevent loss or exposure of sensitive data.

The Overview tab provides an easy starting point for using Data Discovery, alongside showing important discovery metrics and findings. Navigate to All > Data Discovery > Overview to begin using the tab.

Create discovery policy and schedule discovery job

You can begin using Data Discovery with the recommended action items. Select Create Policy to define what sensitive data patterns should be identified and how they should be handled. See Data Discovery policy for more information on creating a new policy. Select Schedule Job to schedule a data discovery jobs that will scan your instance for sensitive information. See Data Discovery scheduled discovery for more information on scheduling a new discovery job.

Data discovery summary

You can review at a glance important Data Discovery metrics. Additionally, you can select the charts to drill-down further. For more information on reviewing discovery findings see Review discovery findings.

Discovered data

A bar chart overlaying the classifications and amount of discovered data. It summarizes where and how many instances of PII were discovered across different tables in your instance, categorized by data pattern types.

Discovery status

A donut chart displaying the proportions of the current state of all discovered patterns- whether they are new findings pending review, have been classified, or marked as ignored

Discovered data and recent jobs

You can review newly discovered data and recent discovery jobs in this section. For a more detailed review of these tables and their contents see Data Discovery scheduled discovery

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