How to govern Operation in Power Automate
A step-by-step guide to governing Operation in Power Automate with Rencore: detect, review by owner and severity, and remediate with an audit trail.
Governing Operation in Power Automate means finding where it goes wrong, reviewing the findings by owner and severity, and remediating with an audit trail. Rencore covers this concern for Power Automate 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 Operation.
Steps
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Inventory Power Automate
Connect Power Automate and let Rencore build a continuous inventory of its resources, owners, and configuration, so governance starts from what exists rather than a stale export.
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Detect with policies
Turn on the pre-built policies that cover Operation in Power Automate to surface oversharing, sprawl, and misconfiguration on the first scan, before writing a single custom rule.
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Review by owner and severity
Use the Power Automate reports to review findings by owner, category, and severity, and to share them with stakeholders who do not have a seat in the platform.
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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.
Power Automate controls for Operation
Grounded in the Rencore catalog. See the full Power Automate catalog on the Power Automate connector page.
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Long running Flows
Shows Flows that ran for a longer period (default 3 hours)
Severity: High -
Flows with many runs in last 30 days
Shows flows with run count exceeds defined value (default 100 runs)
Severity: Information -
Flows not shared with specific service account
Shows all Flows that are not shared with a specified service account (adjust account in Policy)
Severity: Low -
Flows with errors
Shows Flows that have failed runs and might not function as intended
Severity: Low -
Flows that use a specific connector
Shows Flows that use a specific connector (default Twitter)
Severity: Low -
Complex Flows
Flows with many actions (default 20+), that might require additional documentation
Severity: Information -
Flows by State
Shows count of Flows grouped by started or stopped state
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Send a combined email to all owners of a Flow
Send a single (combined) email to the owners of one Microsoft Power Automate Flow
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Send one email per Flow owner
Send an email to every owner of one Microsoft Power Automate Flow and directly addresses the user by first and last name
