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Insight Commands

Run reporting and analytics on your Purview catalog to understand asset distribution, scan coverage, and metadata trends.

Quick Start

Generate insights about your catalog including asset distribution, tags, scans, and time-series analysis.

What You Can Do

  • View asset distribution by type
  • Analyze scan coverage and status
  • Review tag and classification statistics
  • Track metrics over time with time-series data
  • Identify unclassified or ungrouped assets

Available Actions

Command Purpose
assetdistribution Get asset distribution by type
scanstatussummary Get overall scan status summary
scanstatussummarybyts Get scan status as time-series data
filesaggregation Get file aggregation metrics
fileswithoutresourceset Find files not in resource sets
tags Get tag statistics
tagstimeseries Get tag metrics over time

Common Workflows

Get Catalog Overview

pvw insight assetdistribution

Monitor Scan Performance

pvw insight scanstatussummary
pvw insight scanstatussummarybyts

Find Ungrouped Assets

pvw insight fileswithoutresourceset