Run and Manage Identification

Requirements: Immuta permission GOVERNANCE or domain-specific Manage Identifiers

Identification can be configured to run automatically or manually on a domain-by-domain basis. If you want to re-run identification when a data source or new identifiers have been added to a domain, you can manually run it for the domain using the API or from the UI.

Configure a domain's autoscanning setting

1. Navigate to the Domains page and select your domain.

2. Click the Settings tab.

3. Select the autoscanning on the toggle:

   • On: Identification will automatically run when new data sources are added to the domain or when object sync detects new columns on data sources already in the domain.

   • Off: Identification will only run when manually started by a user.

Run identification in a domain

1. Navigate to the Domains page and select your domain.

2. Select the more actions icon.

3. Select Run Identification and then select it again in the modal.

Run identification on a data source

1. Navigate to the data source overview page.

2. Click the health status.

3. Select Re-run next to Sensitive Data Discovery (SDD).

Verify tags

Verify tags

When using identification, manually adding tags to columns in the data dictionary will be unnecessary in most cases. The data owner will just need to verify that the applied tags are correct.

Disable tags from the data dictionary

If a governor, data owner, or data source expert disables a tag from the data dictionary applied by identification, the column will not be re-tagged next time identification runs. When a tag is disabled, it will not completely disappear, and it can be manually enabled through the tag side sheet.

To disable a tag,

1. Navigate to a data source and click the Data Dictionary tab.

2. Scroll to the column you want to remove the tag from and click the tag you want to remove.

3. Click Disable in the side sheet and then click Confirm.