Planning to monitor IBM Knowledge Catalog
As an administrator, you can run reports to gather statistics about catalog assets and governance artifacts. You can also monitor workflow tasks to ensure that tasks are completed on time.
| Task | Mandatory? | Timing |
|---|---|---|
| Set up reporting and run queries | No | Anytime |
| Monitor governance artifact workflow tasks | No | Anytime |
| Get notified when changes occur in IBM Knowledge Catalog | No | Anytime |
Run reports on statistics about assets and artifacts
You can run reports to monitor IBM Knowledge Catalog. The reports send data to an external data mart, which you can query with SQL statements or an analytics application. After you start reporting, all changes are automatically sent to the reporting data mart.
For example, you can run the following types of reports:
- Get the list of assets that do not have business terms assigned to them. You can then target those assets for metadata enrichment or manual assignments.
- Get all assets that have a particular business term assigned. If your data protection rules include business terms in their definitions, you might want to know which assets those rules affect.
- View the trend over time of the data quality score for an asset. If the quality is declining, you can target that asset for cleansing or investigation of the cause of the quality issues.
Note that whenever users create a new project, a catalog, or a category, they can use the control switch Allow reporting on asset metadata to define whether the metadata can be sent to an external reporting database. For more information, see Reporting on assets metadata.
Learn more about reporting
Monitor governance artifact workflow tasks
If your workflow configurations for governance artifacts include review and approval steps, and you have the Manage workflows permission, you can track the status of workflow tasks and take appropriate actions. For example, you can assign unclaimed tasks or contact the assignees of overdue tasks.
Learn more about monitoring tasks
Get notified when changes occur in IBM Knowledge Catalog
You can configure Cloud Pak for Data to forward notifications about IBM Knowledge Catalog events to email recipients or external applications.
You can choose to receive notifications about the following IBM Knowledge Catalog events:
- Changes to assets in a catalog
- Changes to assets in a project
- Changes to projects
- Changes to project members
- Changes to jobs
- Changes to job runs
- Changes to data quality
- Changes to governance artifacts
- Changes to metadata imports
Learn more about notifications
Previous planning tasks
- Planning to set up IBM Knowledge Catalog
- Planning to implement a governance framework
- Planning to protect data with rules
- Planning to curate data to share
Parent topic: Planning to implement data governance