Governance guide

How to govern Inventory in Glean

A step-by-step guide to governing Inventory in Glean with Rencore: detect, review by owner and severity, and remediate with an audit trail.

Definition

Governing Inventory in Glean means finding where it goes wrong, reviewing the findings by owner and severity, and remediating with an audit trail. Rencore covers this concern for Glean with the pre-built controls below, so it becomes a repeatable check rather than a one-off cleanup. The steps that follow apply the same detect, review, remediate loop to Inventory.

Steps

  1. Inventory Glean

    Connect Glean and let Rencore build a continuous inventory of its resources, owners, and configuration, so governance starts from what exists rather than a stale export.

  2. Detect with policies

    Turn on the pre-built policies that cover Inventory in Glean to surface oversharing, sprawl, and misconfiguration on the first scan, before writing a single custom rule.

  3. Review by owner and severity

    Use the Glean reports to review findings by owner, category, and severity, and to share them with stakeholders who do not have a seat in the platform.

  4. Remediate and automate

    Apply automations to fix findings at scale, route sensitive changes through approvals, and keep every action reversible and logged for the audit trail.

Glean controls for Inventory

Grounded in the Rencore catalog. See the full Glean catalog on the Glean connector page.

  • Glean Instance

    Individual deployments of the Glean enterprise AI platform, each serving as a separate working environment

  • Glean Agent

    AI agents configured in Glean that can execute workflows and complete tasks using natural language

  • Glean User

    Users with access to the Glean enterprise AI platform

  • Glean Datasource

    Data sources connected to the Glean platform for enterprise search and AI capabilities

  • Glean Policy

    Data governance policies configured in Glean for compliance and content control

  • Glean DLP Finding

    Data Loss Prevention findings detected by Glean governance scanning

  • Glean Audit Log

    Administrative audit log entries from the Glean platform tracking configuration and access changes

  • Glean Search Analytics

    Search and AI assistant usage analytics from the Glean platform

  • Glean Instance Member

    Members with access to a Glean instance

  • Glean Instance Owner

    Administrators and owners of a Glean instance

  • Glean Agent Usage

    Usage metrics for Glean AI agents including run counts, user counts, and feedback data from the Insights API

  • Glean User Activity

    Per-user platform usage metrics from the Glean Insights API including searches, chats, AI answers, and agent runs

  • Glean Department Usage

    Department-level agent adoption and usage metrics from the Glean Insights API

  • Glean User Agent Activity

    Per-user agent-specific activity metrics including agents used, agents created, and run counts

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