Managing data quality SLA rules (IBM Knowledge Catalog)

Define data quality SLA rules to ensure that the quality of your data assets meets the expectations. Whenever you run metadata enrichment or data quality rules, the asset scores are checked against the SLA rules and, if configured, violations trigger a workflow where remediation tasks are opened.

Required permissions

You must have these user permissions:

• To only view data quality SLA rules, you must have the Access governance artifacts permission.
• To create, edit, or delete data quality SLA rules, you must have the Access governance artifacts and Manage data quality SLA rules permissions.

To create a data quality SLA rule:

1. Open Governance > Rules and click Add rule< New data quality SLA rule.
2. Select Data quality SLA rule.
3. Provide rule name and description.
4. Specify rule conditions:
   1. Select which data assets to include, by filtering either by name, or by assigned business terms. Separate multiple items by a comma.
   2. Define quality criteria: select which score to apply and define the threshold - either the overall score, or some specific dimension as defined in the Data Quality tab of the asset.
   3. You can add multiple subconditions that apply to specific columns in the data assets.
   4. Specify what action to take if any of the conditions are not met. A predefined, ready to use workflow configuration is available out of the box. Based on this configuration, when a rule is violated, a remediation task is automatically assigned to the asset owner, who can then assign other users to fix the issue and to review the fix. For more information on this workflow configuration and how to modify it, see Managing workflows for data quality remediation tasks. If you don't select a remediation workflow, only the violation is reported on the data asset's Data quality page.
5. Click Create.

After the rule is created and published, it is applied whenever you run metadata enrichment on the data assets that meet the specified criteria, or when you run a data quality rule on such data assets. If configured, remediation tasks are triggered automatically and assigned by default to the data asset owners.

Data quality SLA rules are global, they apply to all projects for which SLA rules monitoring is activated in the metadata enrichment settings.

You can edit and delete SLA rules. When you change the SLA rule, the change is not reflected until you run metadata enrichment on the affected asset again, or you run a data quality rule on the asset.

For more information on how to manage the remediation tasks, see Working with data quality remediation tasks.