Microsoft Purview · Unified Catalog Governance
Data Quality Metadata Reader
Browse data quality insights, rule definitions, and scores. Sub-role requiring Governance Domain Reader and catalog reader.
Scope: Read-only access to quality metadata within domain
Permissions
- Browse data quality insights (except profiling column-level)
- View data quality rule definitions
- Access rule-level quality scores
- Cannot access error records
- Cannot run profiling or quality scanning jobs
- Read-only access to quality metadata
Common use cases
- Auditors reviewing quality control implementation
- Compliance teams verifying quality rules exist
- Management monitoring quality rule coverage
- Documentation teams describing quality controls
- External consultants assessing quality maturity
Best practices
- Assign to auditors and compliance reviewers
- Use for quality control transparency
- Provide visibility into quality governance
- More limited than Data Quality Reader (no error records)
- Combine with Global Catalog Reader for broad assignment
Security considerations
- Most restrictive quality-related reader role
- Cannot see error records or data samples
- Read-only with minimal security concerns
- Safe for external auditors and broad assignment
- No access to operational quality data