Discover data

By discovering your data, you can apply policies that assign tags to your data. You can apply tags to the results of a single search, or you can use policies to automatically apply tags on a periodic basis.

There are three ways to discover data:

Content-based keyword and tagging. The search is based on regular expression patterns that are defined within IBM Spectrum® Discover. For more information, see Creating a content search policy.
Create a policy by using tags with known values. A policy is automatically run against all data that meets criteria that are specified in a filter. For more information about creating and using policies, see Managing metadata policies.
Search your data by using a query in standard SQL grammar or do a visual exploration of tags by point-and-click. For more information, see Searching system and custom metadata fields.