Microsoft Purview · Unified Catalog Governance
Data Quality Reader
Browse all data quality insights and rules. Sub-role requiring Governance Domain Reader and catalog reader role.
Scope: Read-only access to data quality insights within domain
Permissions
- Browse all data quality insights (except column-level profiling)
- View data quality rule definitions
- Access data quality scores and trends
- View quality issue summaries
- Cannot run scanning jobs or create rules
- Cannot access detailed error records
Common use cases
- Business users monitoring data quality for their use cases
- Data consumers checking quality before using data products
- Management reviewing domain data quality trends
- Auditors assessing quality control implementation
- Stakeholders tracking quality improvement progress
Best practices
- Assign to data consumers who need quality visibility
- Use for transparency on data product quality
- Include quality metrics in domain dashboards
- Educate readers on interpreting quality scores
- Combine with Global Catalog Reader for broad assignment
Security considerations
- Read-only role with minimal security concerns
- Cannot see detailed error records or data samples
- Quality insights may reveal data issues to broad audience
- Safe for broad assignment to domain stakeholders