How to govern Sprawl in Power Automate
A step-by-step guide to governing Sprawl in Power Automate with Rencore: detect, review by owner and severity, and remediate with an audit trail.
Governing Sprawl 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 Sprawl.
Steps
-
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.
-
Detect with policies
Turn on the pre-built policies that cover Sprawl in Power Automate to surface oversharing, sprawl, and misconfiguration on the first scan, before writing a single custom rule.
-
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.
-
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 Sprawl
Grounded in the Rencore catalog. See the full Power Automate catalog on the Power Automate connector page.
-
Flows without runs
Shows Flows that have never been used. Warning: Flows with runs that happened before the first flow scan of Rencore Governance occurred will not be found.
Severity: Medium -
Stopped Flows
Shows Flows that have stopped
Severity: High -
Unused Flows
Shows Flows created more than 30 days ago that haven't run in more than 180 days
Severity: Information -
Flows without Owners
Shows Flows that have no Flow Owners
Severity: Information -
Stopped Flows Last Week with errors
Shows Flows that have stopped
Severity: High
