Introduction

Learn how to manage access requests to data products and assets in Immuta

The Request app is how you manage request and approve workflows in Immuta to grant data access to your users. Access can refer to a single asset in a catalog (such as databases, schemas, or tables), an entire data product and its objects, or a masking exception to view unmasked data within specific columns.

By replacing ticketing systems and manual grants with automated, self-service workflows, the Request app streamlines data access at both the table- and column-level. This approach reduces operational overhead and accelerates insights while ensuring that governance teams maintain complete visibility, control, and auditability as the data ecosystem grows.

The Request app enables data consumers, stewards, and managers to perform the following actions:

• Discover and request access: Data consumers can quickly discover and request access to data within the data catalogs they are already working in.

• Delegate stewardship: Organizations can delegate data stewards to receive requests for access and make determinations on requests, allowing the right people to make access decisions.

• Automate provisioning: Approvals have a direct impact on access by either auto-provisioned object access in the underlying data platform using powerful access policy management features or managing data policies to automatically unmask specific columns for masking exceptions.

• Manage data products: Data product managers can be assigned within your organization to publish and manage data products in Immuta.

• Customize the experience: Organizations can personalize the Request app with the brand's logo and colors to give it a branded look and feel.

Architecture

The Request app is a separate experience from the existing Govern app, but some actions to set up the Request app must be completed in the Govern app.

Govern app

• Application admins register connections

• Application admins configure catalogs

• Governance users set up domains and users

• Application admins customize the Request app branding

Request app

• Governance users configure request forms and review flows for assets and data products

• Data product managers publish data products

• Data consumers fill out request forms to request access to data

• Data stewards review access requests

For more details about the requirements to set up the Request app, see the Prerequisites page.

Use cases

To decide the best use case for your organization, see the Use cases guide. Or jump right in and start the Walkthrough for setting up the Request app with your assets, the recommended use case.